CHRISTIAN DEATH Presents Lover Of Sin CD (2002)

By 2002, Christian Death had been through enough lineup upheavals to constitute their own gothic soap opera. Rozz Williams was gone. Valor Kand had long claimed the name. And yet "Lover of Sin" arrived as a compilation pulling together the threads of the band's sprawling, fractured legacy, a document for the devotional and the curious alike.

Christian Death are foundational, full stop. Without them, the entire death rock to gothic crossover corridor looks very different, and their influence bleeds into everything from The Fields of the Nephilim through to modern acts operating in that dark post-punk space. This 2002 release sits in an interesting spot in the discography, carrying the Valor-era torch while nodding to a sound that predates most of the genre's current practitioners. Essential context for anyone who claims the dark aesthetic seriously.

Full length album on CD. Origin: USA. Genre: Death rock, black metal adjacent.

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