The Decomposition of Violets -
An Evening with Christian Death
Live in Hollywood

Reachout International Records A-138 Cassette 1986
Reachout International Records RUSCD8240 CD 1998

Contempo Records Conte 138 LP 1990
Contempo Records Conte 138 Limited Edition clear vinyl LP 1990
Contempo Records Contedisc 138 CD including 8 page booklet 1990



 
  • Awake at the Wall
  • Sleepwalk
  • The Drowning
  • Theatre of Pain
  • Cavity
  • The Blue Hour
  • Electra Descending
  • As Evening Falls
  • Face
  • Cervix Couch
  • This Glass House
  • *Romeo's Distress


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    Produced by Valor Kand
    Engineered live by Eric Westfall and Jack Dedert
    Mixed at Rusk Sound Studios, Hollywood and C.D. Presents Studios, San Francisco
    Mixing Engineers - Karenn Ohlinder and David Mighell

    All tracks were recorded "live" at Hollywood Berwin Entertainment Center on 20 October 1984
    except * Romeo's Distress recorded "live" at Long Beach Fenders International Ballroom on 9 November 1984

    Musicians: Rozz Williams (vocals), Gitane DeMone (keyboards & backing vocals), Valor Kand (guitar & backing vocals),
                David Glass (drums), Jeff Williams (bass), Barry Galvin (guitar)

    The Contempo Records clear vinyl LP is a Limited Edition of 1000

    Cover design: Rozz Williams, Valor Kand and Kris Fuller
    Photos: Scott Kilburn

    Reachout International Records release
    CD layout: Sneak Attack

     
     
     

    The decomposition of violets begins upon entering the door, it was a Saturday night at the Berwin Entertainment Center.

    A decision to drink or urinate. A sermon by the Reverend Peter Popoff blared through loudspeakers above the toilets (he is supposed to be a faith healer).

    At the end of a row of stained glass windows a man is dragging himself through a roll of barbed wire, ripping the flesh off his body, and below the video screen are the heads of the crowd: a landscape in rainbows of hair pulsating with each frequency modulation of the music piping into the room. In the other room is a stage and more people than before. In front of the stage is a woman in black, she strokes her arms with fire, she eats fire, the woman in black leaves and so does the light.

    A moment of silence is broken by hooting and chanting. Bodies pressed tightly together through the darkness, only their silhouettes can be seen on stage, chanting dwindles in anticipation, then the moment, their sound rises like a mountain, bringing with it light, the light reflects off the blade of a bayonet playing guitar. A woman's voice rains throughout thr room. As she plays keyboards.

    His words begin, the mountain is still rising. The crowd is hanging on tight. In sleepwalk you can see over the top of the mountain to an unknown part of the world, a journey through pleasure and pain.

    Fetish Friends
     
     
     

    DECEPTION, THEM A PUPPET
    CROSS THIS CHILD INTO THERE SATISFACTION
    PAIN IS THE HURT CONFUSION IS THE DILEMMA
    SEXUAL OPPRESSION IS GENOCIDE
    ALL RELIGION IS CONSPIRACY
    ATTEMPTING TO UNDERMIND THE FEEBLE MIND
    CHILDREN ARE THE VICTIMS
    ELDERLY DECEPTION
    ALL THE BEAUTY DECOMPOSES
    THE PUTRID RIGHTEOUSNESS REMAINS