Ashes (album)
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1985 |
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Christian Death, Valor Kant, Eric Westfall |
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Ashes is the third music album by the death rock / gothic rock band Christian Death and the last under the leadership of Rozz Williams .
background
Ashes was produced in 1985. On the album you can hear more than ever the great influence of David Bowie on Rozz Williams. With this album, the band broke away from their style of playing rooted in Gothic Punk , as you could already hear in part on their predecessor Catastrophe Ballet , and from then on tended to a variant of Gothic Rock which was also known as American Gothic . The band relied on consistently clear melodies made of bright guitars, which were accompanied by a dark bass, which can be heard particularly clearly in songs like Ashes , When i was Bed or The Luxury of Tears .
In terms of content, Ashes is about a post-apocalyptic vision of a cold and gloomy future. The texts were mostly elegiac, surreal, often with Christian and anti-religious themes and sung very darkly. The pieces on Ashes sound consistently more controlled than on the punk-heavy previous albums.
perception
As one of Christian Death's most successful albums, "Ashes" is described and perceived as a post-punk essential alongside Catastrophe Ballet and Only Theater of Pain .
To this day, this album is often still defined and marketed as death rock , although - if at all - only a few songs like Face show features of the styles of playing common in death rock and similar to gothic punk and stylistically predominantly in gothic rock - Environment is located. The two styles, which developed mainly in death rock, were on the one hand horror punk and a mixture similar to British gothic punk of deep, heavy bass, tribal-like drums and scratching and squeaky rumbling guitar with influences from hard rock and shock rock .
It should be mentioned here that from the mid-1980s the term death rock was increasingly equated with the term gothic rock and a mixture of the two styles through the UK tour of Christian Death and performances by bands like the Sisters of Mercy in the USA is recorded.
"I don't know how things went from death rock to Goth, but I think the Sisters had something to do with it."
"I don't know how it went from Deathrock to Goth, but I think the Sisters had something to do with it."
Commenting on the change in perception, Williams commented on the following:
"So death rock as we saw it, was taking the visual and lyrical aspect of the cramps, and attaching it to rock'n'roll. Only People started calling it gothic rock instead, and it ended up going to a very different place we had intended. "
“So Death Rock, as we understood it, took the visual and lyrical aspects of the Cramps and pinned them to Rock 'n' Roll. Only people started calling it Gothic Rock and it ended up going in a completely different direction than we had intended. "
Track list
- Ashes Part 1
- Ashes Part 2
- When i was Bed
- Lament (Over the Shadows)
- Face
- The Luxury of Tears
- Of the wound
Re-releases
On September 25, 2009, Ashes was re-released by Christian Death and recognized by critics as a milestone and one of the most influential albums on the Gothic scene. On the re-release is the previously unreleased bonus track Before The Rain .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/ashes-mw0000653948
- ↑ http://www.lastfm.de/music/Christian+Death/Ashes
- ↑ http://powermetal.de/review/review-Christian_Death/Ashes,14749,15282.html
- ↑ http://powermetal.de/review/review-Christian_Death/Ashes,14749,15282.html
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.season-of-mist.com/bands/christian-death
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/ashes-mw0000653948
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/ashes-mw0000653948
- ↑ http://powermetal.de/review/review-Christian_Death/Ashes,14749,15282.html
- ^ Judith Platz: The 'black' music. In Axel Schmidt, Klaus Neumann-Braun: The world of the Gothics. Scope of dark connotations of transcendence. 2004, ISBN 3-531-14353-0 . P. 262f
- ↑ Oliver Sheppard: Deathrock a Brief History Part II. Souciant
- ↑ Dave Thompson: The Birth of Goth in Dave Thompson: Alternative Rock: Third Ear - The Essential Listening Companion, Miller Freeman Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0-87930-607-6 , pp. 62ff
- ↑ http://www.poponaut.de/christian-death-ashes-rerelease-p-6970.html
