Search - Christian Death :: Insanus, Ultio, Proditio, Misericodiaque

One-third masterpiece

alberto guidotti | Milan, Italy | 05/30/2001

(3 out of 5 stars)

"That's the album for Valor's failed revenge. Abandoned both by David Glass and Gitane de Mone, after the artistic nadir of All the Love, All the Hate (1989), he relized from Europe that over the ocean something was happening: Rozz Williams, the original Christian Death former singer was recruiting members to resurrect the band. So Valor published in Italy this album of studio outtakes and never completed promos, with all the titles translated in latin! Most of it is ..., with 2 exceptions and a curiosity... The curiosity is the first Sevan-us Rex (King Sevan), with his son Sevan's voice coughing and blaming on an orchestral fanfare: really weird but original (then valid). A good track is Venenum (Poison) the last one with Gitane's magic voice, seems an excerpt from Sex and Drugs album. But the real masterpiece of the album, the one that makes worth the puchase, is Infans Vexatio (Annoying Children?), a bad-recorded promo of a wonderful piece sung by Rozz Williams! Previously entitled Lullaby (as you can find on Tales of Innocence...) is a dirty and ripetitive ballad, on the vicious themes of pedophily, a real perverted nursery ryme in Rozz's style never included on Ashes! Pay attention to have the European edition: on the American one Valor has cancelled Rozz's voice and sings by himself (the song is entitled simply Vexatio)."