Description
LABEL: Futurismo
RELEASE DATE: 06/19/2026
VARIANT: Limited Edition, Color Vinyl 2LP
The roots of West Coast deathrock, and arguably the first essential American goth album, Christian Death’s Only Theatre of Pain helped defined a jet-black musical underground with punk-jolted fury and controversial lyricism. Frontman Rozz Williams was still a teenager when the album was originally released in 1982. Through genre classics like “Romeo’s Distress,” “Spiritual Cramp” and more, his emotively moaned poetics run wild while poking at organized hate, religious depravity and blood-dripping sensuality. Gothic pleasure-seekers will enjoy this deluxe edition of Pain, pressed on limited “Blood Sanctum” wax and packaged with a bonus album of demos and alternate takes.
TRACKLIST
1 Cavity- First Communion
2 Figurative Theatre
3 Burnt Offerings
4 Mysterium Iniquitatis
5 Dream for Mother
6 Stairs - Uncertain Journey
7 Spiritual Cramp
8 Romeo's Distress
9 Resurrection - Sixth Communion
10 Prayer
11 Dogs
12 Romeo's Distress
13 Deathwish
14 Desperate Hell
15 Spiritual Cramp
16 Cavity - First Communion
17 Sleepwalk (1982 Demo)
18 Invocation (1982 Demo)
19 Cavity-First Communion (Alternate Version)
20 Lord's Prayer (Alternate Version)