Atrocities was Christian Death

Christian Death

Christian Death is an American deathrock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1979. The band was founded and fronted by Rozz Williams. Christian Death is most notable for their first album Only Theatre of Pain....

's fourth album and the first with Valor Kand

Valor Kand

Valor Kand is the current vocalist/guitarist/songwriter of Christian Death, an American deathrock/goth rock band once fronted by Rozz Williams. He is an ex-lover of Gitane Demone, with whom he has two children, Sevan Kand and Zara.-External links:...

 taking over main duties after Rozz Williams

Rozz Williams

Rozz Williams was an American vocalist and musician of several varieties, most famous for fronting the band Christian Death, then later Shadow Project with musician Eva O, though his main project throughout his career was the industrial, Premature Ejaculation...

' departure. The album's subject matter deals almost exclusively with the Holocaust including songs about Auschwitz and Josef Mengele

Josef Mengele

Josef Rudolf Mengele , also known as the Angel of Death was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. He earned doctorates in anthropology from Munich University and in medicine from Frankfurt University...

. Recorded at Rockfield Studios

Rockfield Studios

Rockfield Studios, near Monmouth in Wales and just outside the village of Rockfield, Monmouthshire are where many of British rock music’s most successful recordings have been made.-History:...

 in Monmouth, Wales

Wales

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 it also featured the songwriting and arrangement skills of Barry Galvin, who, along with Johann Schumann, would leave the group upon the completion of Atrocities - both went on to form Mephisto Walz

Mephisto Walz

Mephisto Walz are a gothic rock group formed in 1985. They have an accomplished discography behind them, having released many full-length albums over the course of their career, through Cleopatra Records and other labels...

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Track listing

"Prologue"

1. "Will-o-the-Wisp" (Valor) - 3:15
2. "Tales Of Innocence" (Valor, B. Galvin) - 6:23
3. "Strapping Me Down" (Valor, B. Galvin) - 2:36
4. "The Danzig Walz" (Valor) - 3:31
5. "Chimere De-ci De-la" (Valor) - 4:41

"Finale"

1. "Silent Thunder" (Valor, B. Galvin) - 6:32
2. "Strange Fortune" (Valor) - 3:52
3. "Ventriloquist" (Valor) - 4:31
4. "Gloomy Sunday
   Gloomy Sunday
   "Gloomy Sunday" is a song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and published in 1933, as "Vége a világnak" . Lyrics were written by László Jávor, and in his version the song was retitled "Szomorú vasárnap"...
   
   " (Sam M. Lewis
   Sam M. Lewis
   Sam M. Lewis was a Jewish-American singer and lyricist, born in New York City, New York as Samuel Levine-Biography:...
   
   , Rezső Seress
   Rezso Seress
   Rezső Seress was a Hungarian pianist and composer. Some sources give his birth name as Rudolf Spitzer.Rezső Seress lived most of his life in poverty in Budapest, when, being Jewish, was taken to a labour camp by the Nazis during the Second World War...
   
   ) - 3:01
5. "The Death Of Josef" (Valor, D. Glass) - 4:41

Personnel

• Valor Kand
  Valor Kand
  Valor Kand is the current vocalist/guitarist/songwriter of Christian Death, an American deathrock/goth rock band once fronted by Rozz Williams. He is an ex-lover of Gitane Demone, with whom he has two children, Sevan Kand and Zara.-External links:...
  
   - vocals, guitar
  Guitar
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  , violin
  Violin
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  , piano
  Piano
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• Gitane DeMone
  Gitane Demone
  Gitane Demone is a singer and musician. She was a member of Christian Death in the 1980s, and is currently a solo artist.-Pompeii 99 and Christian Death:...
  
   - vocals, keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  
• Johann Schumann - bass
  Bass (instrument)
  Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...
  
  
• Barry Galvin - guitar, vocals
• David Glass - drums
  Drum kit
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