Name: Death Church
Brand: Rudimentary Peni

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SEAL014CD

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-02-11

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

La Vida Es Un Mus Dicos Ltd Ltd.

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5056321670656

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

SEAL014LP

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black

5056321670649

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Rudimentary Peni

Genre GB

Punk / Hardcore

Label GB

Sealed Records

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’ 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 in LP, CD and cassette after nearly a decade of no official reissues

Death Church

Music GB