DEATH IN JUNE Lesson 1 Misanthropy CD/DVD (2009)

Few acts have made misanthropy this listenable. Death in June spent the early 1980s dismantling post-punk from the inside out, dragging it somewhere murkier, more ritualistic, and considerably harder to explain to people at parties.

Lesson 1: Misanthropy is a limited compilation pulling from the 1981 to 1984 era, which means you're getting the foundational years before Douglas P. settled fully into neofolk territory. This is the transitional stuff, the death industrial adjacency, the skeletal guitars and unnerving atmosphere that made Death in June required listening for anyone who ever took the dark side of post-punk seriously. The CD/DVD format gives you the full document, and the bonus patch is the kind of thing that ends up on a jacket and stays there for years. Released 2009, UK and Australian pressing.

Full length compilation. CD/DVD with bonus patch. Genre: punk, goth, industrial, neofolk. 1981-84 era material.

Fans of: Rome, Darkwood, Spiritual Front, Blood Axis, Backworld, Boyd Rice.