Ashes

Artist: Christian Death
Label: Nostradamus Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD

UPC: 017535105520
EAN: 0017535105520
ASIN: B0000021OC

Release Date: 1992-05-22

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Tracks:

Ashes
Ashes Part II
When I Was Bed
Lament-Over The Shadows
Face
The Luxury Of Tears
Of The Wound

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Customer Reviews:

The Best.......2006-03-20

This is hands down my favorite Christian Death album. Rozz's lyrics shine here. The music is very expirimental, atmospheric and over all dark. Very well done. Gitane's vocals are also a very nice touch.

I reccomend this album to pratically anyone. It's just that good!

One of a Kind.......2002-11-19

The first Christian Death album, "Only Theatre of Pain", is probably the best Gothic album ever written. The original line-up split-up and Rozz Williams took the name and moved to Europe where he assembled a new band. Two excellent CDs were the result of the new collaboration. "Ashes" is probably the better of the two, though they are both sublime. However, "Ashes" is a must have! Rozz and co. moved away from the straight up Gothic sound of "Theatre" into very unique and experimental music. None of the subsequent recordings ever matched this relase. This CD transcends genre and classification. Almost impossible to describe. It is absolutely brilliant. Each track is a masterpiece. My personal favorite is "Luxury of Tears". It is stunning. The music is varied and beautiful, the lyrics pure poetry. Goth or not, I would recommend this CD for everyone.

Makes me wish Valor hadn't taken the name..........2002-03-14

This album is like nothing I've ever heard.
I wouldn't call it Goth. It doesn't seem to try hard to 'be' anything. It's very atmosphereic. it takes me to a place that I can't even define. Someone in another review mentioned Lovecraft. That's a good way to describe the feel of this record.

Sheerly by association with the songwriting on this record I would ahve bought albums by 'Sin and Sacrifice'(the alleged name the band was to take after the tour sans Rozz to support this album), but I wont buy anything with C.D.'s name on it without Rozz. He was the only member from the original line-up.
I highly recommend listening to this CD as if it were on vinyl(how I first heard it), as I recommend doing with any album originally released on vinyl.
The A/B break comes after "Lament(Over the Shadows)", just pause the record for a moment, then start it again.
The different sides have very different feels.
All in all, one of my favorite albums.

When I Was Bed.......2002-02-17

I spent the '80s enmeshed in the realm of Christian Death and similar bands (Bauhaus, Joy Division, The Cure, Siouxsie, etc.). CD, in my opinion, took the earlier Goth sounds and built them into spectacularly unique riffs of a very specific "goth" sound, building on all that had come before them. They defined it, in many ways. What Sisters of Mercy hoped to be, Christian Death was. What's more, they got famous at the Whiskey-a-go-go, where The Doors launched, and somehow I always felt a poetic kinship between Rozz, Valor and Morrison.

Without a doubt, CD turned into 2 bands--the Rozz era and the Valor era, but "Ashes" is a clear collaboration between the best of both worlds (as is Catastrophe Ballet). In my opinion, it's the finest of their collaborative period. The title track is exceptional; "When I Was Bed" is one of those classics that had me and my mates lost in the deathy melodies and enraptured by the chimey guitars and keyboards throughout; "Face" is also an excellent tune--very weird (in the Lovecraft sense), with an elegant melodic scale particular to Valor's guitar work.

Overall, I think this is their best album; what "Catastrophe Ballet" attempted to be and what "Atrocities" couldn't quite become. The only other album which I feel captures the same type of introspective mood is "The Wind Kissed Pictures", which is a Valor production, completely absent of Rozz Williams, but for that reason is almost too self-conscious in its production.

Whatever your preference, the lyrics are basic 14-year-old level mopey and/or "philosopically investigative" cosmology on every album, and on some albums ("Only Theatre of Pain") the lyrics are mostly downright unintelligible and juvenille. However, Christian Death created vastly universal moods with the music/vocals, some of which lives forever in my heart as unique and important. If one were to own only 1 CD album, I think it should be "Ashes"--it's got a wide range of styles, experimentation and richness of production.

In some ways, it's a shame this band didn't become bigger; in others, I'm sort of glad that they remain a bit of a secretive gem for a specific niche of in-the-knows. Whatever the case, music-lovers of all genres should give them an unbiased listen; they ruled supreme in a niche realm for a short, but beloved period.

Rozz & Valor's collaboration at its best.......1999-07-13

I like both Rozz & Valor's works (some of them very much), but I think 'Ashes' is the result of Christian Death at their best! You really can hear the collaboration between all the members, and I think that every Rozz needs one Valor, if he wants to create something as great as 'Ashes'.

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