The Divine Punishment is the third full-length album by avant-garde

Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

 performer Diamanda Galás

Diamanda Galás

Diamanda Galás is an American avant-garde composer, vocalist, pianist, organist, performance artist and painter.Galás has been described as "capable of the most unnerving vocal terror", with her three and a half octave vocal range. She often screams, hisses and growls...

, and the first installment of her "Masque of the Red Death Trilogy" about the AIDS epidemic. In this installment, she focuses on interpretations of Old Testament scripture.

Track listing

Side A:
"Deliver Me from Mine Enemies" - 19:15

i. This is the law of the Plague

ii. Deliver Me from Mine Enemies

iii. We Shall not accept your Quarantine

iv. Εξελόυμε (Deliver Me)

v. Γιατί, Ό Θεός? (Why, God?)

vi. Psalm 22

Side B:
"Free Among the Dead" - 13:32

i. Psalm 88

ii. Lamentations

iii. Sono L'Antichristo

Personnel

• Diamanda Galás
  Diamanda Galás
  Diamanda Galás is an American avant-garde composer, vocalist, pianist, organist, performance artist and painter.Galás has been described as "capable of the most unnerving vocal terror", with her three and a half octave vocal range. She often screams, hisses and growls...
  
   - Vocals, Producer
• Frank Harris - Engineering
• Naut Humon
  Naut Humon
  Naut Humon is the adopted name of Mark Sprague. He serves on the Digital Musics jury of the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria every year. He is the founder of Recombinant Media Labs and was head of A&R for Asphodel Records, both based in San Francisco. He is featured in the 2001...
  
  - Technician
• Dave Hunt - Engineering, Producer, Mixing
• Richard Zvonar - Technician