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01. Rudimentary Peni - ΒΌ Dead
02. Rudimentary Peni - Blissful Myth
03. Rudimentary Peni - The Psycho Squat
04. Rudimentary Peni - Rotten To The Core
05. Rudimentary Peni - Poppycock
06. Rudimentary Peni - Cosmic Hearse
07. Rudimentary Peni - The Cloud Song
08. Rudimentary Peni - Vampire State Building
09. Rudimentary Peni - Blasphemy Squad
10. Rudimentary Peni - When You Are A Martian Church
11. Rudimentary Peni - Pig In A Blanket
12. Rudimentary Peni - Inside
13. Rudimentary Peni - Nothing But A Nightmare
14. Rudimentary Peni - Flesh Crucifix
15. Rudimentary Peni - Slimy Member
16. Rudimentary Peni - Love Is Not
17. Rudimentary Peni - Radio Schizo
18. Rudimentary Peni - Happy Farm
19. Rudimentary Peni - Alice Crucifies The Paedophiles
20. Rudimentary Peni - Army Of Jesus
21. Rudimentary Peni - Dutchmen
ARTIST
TITLE
Death Church
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
SEAL 014CD SEAL 014CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/29/2022

Sealed Records present a reissue of Rudimentary Peni's Death Church, originally released in 1983. The words legendary, seminal, and classic get thrown around at will these days, but Rudimentary Peni's debut album is all of them. Recorded over two days at Southern Studios by John Loder and originally released in 1983 by Crass off-shoot label Corpus Christi, Death Church showed a band moving away from the urgency of their two early 7"s and into their own realm. Creating a template that bands have been trying to replicate ever since, while ticking all the boxes to become a genre-defining album. Iconic artwork, a unique sound and their own lyrical universe. All merging seamlessly. Sonically the album is full of Nick Blinko's extraordinary vocals and equally remarkable guitar, Grant Matthews's big meandering driving basslines and Jon Greville's tight and relentless drum work which together made something intricate and hard hitting, with a sequence that makes the 21 songs on the album flow perfectly. Visually, the album is every outsider art lover's wet dream. A six-panel poster sleeve with every inch covered in Nick Blinko's claustrophobic black-and-white line drawings, while lyrically the songs deal with madness, religion, death, and questioning humankind from a dark poetic place rarely found in any art form. Remastered from the original master tapes by Arthur Rizk and housed in a replica poster sleeve, including the original insert, Death Church is back in print nearly a decade of no official reissues.