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About Christian Death
Hometown
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Formed
October 1979
Genre
Rock
Reacting against his strict Southern Baptist upbringing, Rozz Williams formed the confrontationally named Christian Death in Los Angeles in 1979. A dark beacon of the city’s newly minted death-rock scene, the band transmuted outsider proto-punk and glam influences into the bleary, gothic dirges heard on 1982’s Only Theatre of Pain. After a few more albums and lineup changes, Williams exited the band in 1985, eventually passing away in 1998. Singer and multi-instrumentalist Valor Kand took the reins for decades to come, presiding over cathartic doom and gloom alongside bassist/singer Maitri Nicolai on albums like 2007’s American Inquisition and 2022’s Evil Becomes Rule. Despite changing eras of underground American music, Christian Death maintained its anti-religious message while merging shadowy threads of industrial, rockabilly, and other genres into a deeper vision of goth.
Members of Christian Death include, or have included, Rikk Agnew, Rozz Williams, William Faith and more.
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