Christian Death: Live

Rating:
Summary: The original CD lives! for one night....
Review: " Los Angles will burn to the ground..."

With that sample the immortal Rozz Williams leads the ORIGINAL line-up of Christian Death who recorded the classic " Only Theatre of Pain " filled with with fog, wielding a cane to add to his already powerful, majestic, stage presence. Rikk Agenew's and Casey Chaos's of Amen [ sitting in for absent James McGerty } guitar and bass arrangements are nothing short of sensational; Agnew's beautifully chaotic, chorus laden cathing guitar lines swooping over Casy's melodic, driving, independent bass lines is sheer brillance! And George Bellenger's drumming is as solid and thunderous as ever, providing the idesipenible backbone to these magnificent songs.
And of course Rozz Williams: master of ceromonies, his sleek graceful and haunting voice, sinister yet oepn and honest lyrics, and as stated befroe, stalks the stage { and the audience } with a dramtic downright fearsome stage prescence. To add to nearly all of OTOP being performed [ " Desperete hell ", " Burnt offerings " and " Parayer " are excluded } Two newer songs, the improved " Cry Baby " and " Some Men/The Other " appear here; scheduled to have been on an aborted second album recorded by this line-up { Rikk Agnew walks offstage after
Resurrection and the band has to finish without a guitar player, Agnew's brother provided overdubed guitar for the CD and DVD; this was the reason Rozz and the rest of the band ultimatly decided against recording another album with this line-up }. Also the ORIGINAL version of " Sleepwalk " Rozz had wriiten for this line-up in '83{, and they recorded a studio version to be found on the Incovations CD}this version much better and tougher than the C. Ballet version. All in all this 1993 reunion is absoulute gem; pick it up right away!

Kaenan James

Rating:
Summary: The original CD lives! for one night....
Review: " Los Angles will burn to the ground..."

With that sample the immortal Rozz Williams leads the ORIGINAL line-up of Christian Death who recorded the classic " Only Theatre of Pain " filled with with fog, wielding a cane to add to his already powerful, majestic, stage presence. Rikk Agenew's and Casey Chaos's of Amen [ sitting in for absent James McGerty } guitar and bass arrangements are nothing short of sensational; Agnew's beautifully chaotic, chorus laden cathing guitar lines swooping over Casy's melodic, driving, independent bass lines is sheer brillance! And George Bellenger's drumming is as solid and thunderous as ever, providing the idesipenible backbone to these magnificent songs.
And of course Rozz Williams: master of ceromonies, his sleek graceful and haunting voice, sinister yet oepn and honest lyrics, and as stated befroe, stalks the stage { and the audience } with a dramtic downright fearsome stage prescence. To add to nearly all of OTOP being performed [ " Desperete hell ", " Burnt offerings " and " Parayer " are excluded } Two newer songs, the improved " Cry Baby " and " Some Men/The Other " appear here; scheduled to have been on an aborted second album recorded by this line-up { Rikk Agnew walks offstage after
Resurrection and the band has to finish without a guitar player, Agnew's brother provided overdubed guitar for the CD and DVD; this was the reason Rozz and the rest of the band ultimatly decided against recording another album with this line-up }. Also the ORIGINAL version of " Sleepwalk " Rozz had wriiten for this line-up in '83{, and they recorded a studio version to be found on the Incovations CD}this version much better and tougher than the C. Ballet version. All in all this 1993 reunion is absoulute gem; pick it up right away!

Kaenan James

Rating:
Summary: Oh My God
Review: I cant believe it! A Christian Death DVD??? This must be a mistake? :) Cant wait! The VHS of this concert sold very well when it was reissued so I guess maybe this must be some kind of incentive. Excited! As far as I know this is a rozz concert not valor (I like em both the same!). I cant wait!

Rating:
Summary: ROZZ WILLIAMS IS GOD
Review: The real christian death, playing real christian death songs. Rozz and crew light up the room. BUY THIS DVD!! You won't be sorry! Anything else I say would be redundant.

Rating:
Summary: ROZZ WILLIAMS IS GOD
Review: The real christian death, playing real christian death songs. Rozz and crew light up the room. BUY THIS DVD!! You won't be sorry! Anything else I say would be redundant.

Rating:
Summary: Christian Death Live DVD
Review: This DVD is quite interesting. It is the CD Icolognia BTW. Recorded in the mid '90s. First I'll talk about the concert.

The concert itself is intimate, but very grungy and mainly primitive, a mash of early Cooper and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The sound quality is rather good, and the picture is decent, but by modern standards rather poor, like I said, like watching a 70s Alice Cooper concert. Rozz is being grabbed and kissed and mollested by the crowd ALOT. Some drunk gothbois occasionally find their way onto the stage as well. They perform all our favorites from the classic Only Theatre of Pain album and two songs from a never came to be Christian Death album (Some Men The Other and Cry Baby).

Rozz was taking cigs from the crowd and sipping from a bottle :).(Did I mention Alice ? ). The show was very obviously hot (I read the air conditioning failed, yikes!). The drumming is A++++, George Belanger is absolutely fantastic. Rozz's vocals are still quite dramatic and he really gets into many of the songs. The guitar and bass are EXCELLENT, the entire musical arrangements are stellar.

A wonderful bonus feature were the two bonus previously unreleased Premature Ejaculation tracks, these are accompanied by NEATO pictures and collages etc, a real trippy thing !

Overall, if you like Christian Death and you know you do, buy it! But if you arent sure about these guys, start with an audio cd, this isnt representative of them enough. Grab Only Theatre for that punk sound or Catastrophe Ballet for the surreal melancholy sound, or Ashes. For solo Rozz, get Dream Home Heartache.

Au'voir, THANKS ROZZNET!