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Current 93/Death In June Split LP.
Scratchings on the vinyl: 'Never Throw Away A Key!' and 'To Douglas And Rose, With Blossoms And Blood'.
3 versions: black vinyl, red vinyl (ltd. 1000), clear vinyl (ltd. 500)

Line-up:

David Tibet

Rose McDowall

Douglas P.

Andrea James

Tony Wakeford

Track Listing (side B):

Since Yesterday [from Swastikas for Noddy]

The Signs and the Sighs of Emptiness [recorded in Tokyo, 1989]

Oh, Coal Black Smith [from Swastikas for Noddy]

Emptiness Itself [some minutes silence]

I Am Everywhere Broken and Spinning

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Part 2 of TheInmostLight trilogy. This album is dedicated to Dorothy Ann Collins (1933-1995) and Seth Joseph Burgess Cox-Dorée (born 1995). Photos of David Tibet and the other musicians as children appear in the booklet.
Scratchings on the (clear) vinyl: 'A Man Must Be Orthodox On Most Things...' and '...Or He Will Never Have Time To Preach His Own Heresy (G.K. Chesterton)'

Line-up:

David Tibet

John Balance

Michael Cashmore

Steven Stapleton

Timothy d'Arch Smith

Lilith

Geoff Cox-Dorée

Nick Cave

Joolie Wood

David Kenny

Salamah binti Isa

David Rowlands

The Long Shadow Falls

All The Pretty Little Horsies

Calling For Vanished Faces I

The Inmost Night

This Carnival Is Dead And Gone

The Bloodbells Chime

Calling For Vanished Faces II

The Frolic

The Inmost Light

Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil (for Thomas Ligotti who has seen the bloodbells shine)

The Inmost Light Itself

All The Pretty Little Horses [Nick Cave]

Patripassian [Nick Cave]

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This CD is about 10 minutes long and comes with a comic book by Mark Pawson, James Mannox, David Tibet, Peter Christopherson, John Balance, Enrico Chiarparin and Savage Pencil.
There's also a (quite incomplete) discography of official releases with line-ups.

Line-up:

David Tibet

James Mannox

Steven Stapleton

John Balance

Peter Christopherson

Sam Mannox

Simon Norris

Children Of The Nodapoc Gather Round

Love Dance Of The Nodding Folk

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Recorded live at La Lune des Pirates, Amiens, France, December 15, 1990
First pressing ltd. 2000
(says 'Windsong Distribution' in booklet)

Line-up:

David Tibet

James Alexander Mannox

Michael Cashmore

Joolie Wood

James Malindaine-LaFayette

Khor Ba'i Nyes Dmigs

Lament For Her

The Death Of The Corn

A Song For Douglas After He's Dead

Terra Tegit Terram

Be

Hooves

Horsey

They Returned To Their Earth (For My Christ Thorn)

A Song For Douglas After He's Dead (Rebirth)

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from the Christ And The Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow sessions.
666 copies.

Line-up:

David Tibet

Steven Stapleton

Douglas P.

Rose McDowall

Tony Wakeford

Dik

The Red Face Of God

The Breath And Pain Of God

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C93 with the Black And Red Menstrual Show.
DLP lim. 93, a one-sided and a double-sided LP
Scratching on the double-sided LP: 'Maldoror Is Finally Mort'
The B side of the one-sided LP is an etching by Steven Stapleton (Astral Paddington).

Line-up:

David Tibet

Steven Stapleton

Douglas P.

Rose McDowall

Tony Wakeford

Dik

John Balance

HÖH

Isidore Ducasse

Dögun

Forever Changing

The Ballad Of The Pale Christ

Christ And The Pale Queens

Mighty In Their Sorrow

Night

Astral Paddington (etching by Steven Stapleton)

Dögun

Forever Changing

The Ballad Of The Pale Christ

Christ And The Pale Queens

The Red Face Of God

The Breath And Pain Of God

Mighty In Sorrow

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A remixed, re-structured and re-recorded version of Swastikas For Noddy.
Different artwork no printed lyrics and renamed songs.
Dedicated to Stapleton's second child, Nyida.

Track listing:

He Is Everywhere Nowhere

Northforth

Hail

The Return Of The Final Church

Snow

Oh Thou Coal Black Smith

From Boyd's Bunker

Ending Ending

The Summer Past

The Sickstair Song

Toytown Awakes

Dark Wood Too Awakes

After Tomorrow

Hey Ho The Nodding God Comes

Looney Runes

The Ballad of Bobby Sunshine

The Use Of Compassion Explained

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Scratchings: 'What you are we were' and 'What we are you shall be'

Line-up:

David Tibet

HÖH

Godkrist

Rose McDowall

J. Sen. Nyarlathotep's Idiot Flute Players

'The Old Boy Himself'

Crowleymass

As For The Other Side (Christmassacre)

Crowleymass (mix mix mix)

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LP lim. 2000, with two slightly different sleeves (1st press does not have catalogue number on back of cover, 2nd press does)

Line-up:

David Tibet

Steven Stapleton

John Fothergill

John Murphy

Annie Anxiety

Nick Rogers

Youth

Douglas P. (CD only)

Rose McDowall (CD only)

John Balance (CD only)

Great Black Time [live at Bar Maldoror, different mix on CD without 'destruction' tape loop]

Maldoror Est Mort [from Mi-Mort 3 cassette]

A Day In Dogland [CD only, from The Fight Is On]

Extra Ecclesian Nulla Salus [CD only, from the Nature Unveiled sessions]

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Current 93/Death In June/Sol Invictus live in Frankfurt, March 24, 1991
Previously a limited bootleg entitled 'Day of the Dawn, live in Frankfurt 24/03/1991' (numbered ed. of 500, some unnumbered copies exist).
Rereleased by World Serpent with different artwork.

Line-up:

David Tibet

Douglas P.

Rose McDowall

Tony Wakeford

Summer of Love

Death of the Corn

A Song For Douglas

Earth Covers Earth

Be

North

Hooves/Horsey

Happy Birthday

They Return to Their Earth [named 'Fields Of Rape' on the bootleg]

Black Flowers

(Hullo Angel)

A Sadness Song [not listed on the bootleg]

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Cassette has three extra tracks.
1st press of LP has pictures on labels and a red insert, 2nd press has track info on labels.
Scratchings: 'From The Desolate Fields' and 'Into The Heart Of The Beast'
Rereleased on DURTRO with one bonus track from the same period. Different cover and artwork. Additional lyrics printed in the booklet and the CD-inlay.

Line-up:

David Tibet

Steven Stapleton

John Murphy

Nicholas Rogers

Crystale

IGS

Isidore Ducasse

Tathata Louise Aisling Wallis

Steve Ignorant

Christ 777 [DURTRO CD only]

Christus Christus (The Shells Have Cracked)

Falling Back In Fields Of Rape

From Broken Cross, Locusts

Raio No Terrasu (Jesus Wept) [live Bar Maldoror November 25, 1983, on the 13th anniversary of the death of Yukio Mishima through hara-kiri and beheading]

St Peter's Keys All Bloody [a combination of acapella versions of Simon & Garfunkel's 'Sound Of Silence' and 'Scarborough Fair', credited as 'traditional' in the booklet, no 'Simon & Garfunkel' reference]

Dogs Blood Rising [DURTRO CD only]

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Supernatural Organisation LP release (Japanese) came with an additional 7": Live at The Loft, Tokyo, December 1988, and a postcard, ltd. 1000 (numbered)
Scratchings on UD029: 'For Rosy Abelisk' and 'And Your Eyes Shall Turn To Glass'

Line-up:

David Tibet

Tony Wakeford

Douglas P.

Rose McDowall

John Balance

Steven Stapleton

Lu

Maria Enzell

Chris Wallis

Dik

Ian Read

Boyd Rice

David Kenny

Steve Ignorant

Ruby Wallis [Rosy Abelisk]

The Dilly Song

Hourglass For Diana

Earth Covers Earth

Rome For Douglas P.

Time Tryeth Truth

Hourglass For Rosy Abelisk

The Dilly Song

At The Blue Gates Of Death

She Is Dead And All Fall Down

God Has Three Faces Wood Has No Name

The Blue Gates Of Death (Before And Beyond Them)

The Dream Moves Of The Sleeping King:

He Falls Into Fields Of Sleep

The Dreamer Dreams A Dream

Rome

Hourglass For Diana

Fields Of Rape

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This is a 2-disc best-of compilation, tracks from between 1982 and 1992 selected by Tibet and Stapleton, containing some previously unreleased songs and mixes.

Track Listing: Disc 1 (Great Black Time):

Great Black Time I (excerpt)

Falling Back In Fields Of Rape (excerpt)

Only Shadows Of Hooks (excerpt)

Ach Golgotha: The Mystical Body Of Christ In Chorazaim (excerpt)

Sucking Up Souls (excerpt)

The Breath And The Pain Of God

Imperium I

Imperium II

Diana

The Ballad Of The Pale Christ

Great Black Time II (excerpt)

Great Black Time III (excerpt)

Happy Birthday Pigface Christus

The Stair Song

Suzanne: She And I In Darkness We Lay And Lie [prev. unreleased]

Maldoror Is Ded Ded Ded Ded [prev. unreleased]

Hooves

Oh Coal Black Smith

The Signs And The Sighs Of Emptiness

Broken Birds Fly

Earth Covers Earth

They Return To Their Earth [prev. unreleased]

Silence As Christine [prev. unreleased]

Anyway, People Die

The Descent Of Long Satan And Babylon

Our Lady Of Horsies [prev. unreleased]

In Sadness Sang [prev. unreleased]

The Sadness Of Things (excerpt)

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1st press has picture labels, 2nd press has track info on labels.
Scratchings: 'William Bonnet: In The Sky With Diamonds Maaan' and 'Katherine Poussin Crawls From Deus Ex Machina Yeahhh'

Line-up:

David Tibet

Steven Stapleton

John Balance

Douglas P.

Rose McDowall

Bee

Happy Birthday Pigfaced Christus

Black Flowers Please (Do Dead Gods Smell)

Happy Birthday Beau Maldoror Wolf Donnan

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Live recordings at Amiens/France 1992 (1&4), London 1992 (Tracks 2&3) and Paris 1993 (Track 5).

Line-up:

David Tibet

Douglas P.

Michael Cashmore

James Malindaine-Lafayette

Rose McDowall

James Mannox

Karl Blake

John Balance

Joolie Wood

Steven Stapleton

Starfish

Imperium V

Hitler As Kalki (SDM)

Christ And The Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow

All The Stars Are Dead Now (WmB)

Imperium V

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Tracks 1 to 3 were originally released on the Horse album of the C93/NWW/Sol Invictus box set. Tracks 4 to 6 were recorded live in Shizuoka, Japan.

Line-up:

David Tibet

Steven Stapleton

Tony Wakeford

Douglas P.

Kawagachi Makoto

Ichihara Shinya

Uchida Ryuji

Takashima Satoru

Diana [written by Comus]

The Death Of The Corn

Tree

Broken Birds Fly I (Maldoror Waits)

Horsey

Broken Birds Fly II (Maldoror Wails) [first released on the Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine 7"]

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1st press of LP has black labels (ltd. 2000), 2nd press has white labels.
Scratchings: 'Stong Pa Nyid Du Gyur' and 'Dam Ye Dbyer Med Lmun Grub Rozogs'

Line-up:

David Tibet

Steven Stapleton

Douglas P.

John Balance

HÖH

Wulf

Tony Wakeford

Imperium I

Imperium II

Imperium III

Imperium IV on the 1st vinyl pressing this track is not as long as on the CD release

Be

Locust

Or

Alone

Time Stands Still [CD only]

Untitled [CD only]

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Picture disc (1st ed., ltd. 1111), black vinyl LP (2nd ed.)
A white label promotional edition exists with promo inserts in a plastic folder, and a handmade cover signed and hand-numbered by Tibet, ltd. 19 (numbered).
Scratchings: 'For Steve' and 'For Chrystal'.

Line-up:

David Tibet

Steven Stapleton

Rose McDowall

John Balance

HÖH

Bee

Keiko Yoshida

Diana Rogerson

Ruby Tathata Wallis

Sucking Up Souls

Feeding The Moon

KillyKillKilly (A Fiery Sermon) [CD only, from Nightmare Culture]

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Some tracks of this album appear in the Icelandic films Children Of Nature and Cold Fever.
Scratchings: 'BUT ALONE INTO THE ALONE ANYWAY' and 'I MINNINGU ALLS OG ALL RA'
A sheet of lyrics is available by mail from BM Wound, the one included with the LP was (of course) without the CD only tracks.
The spoken text on 'The Dream Of A Shadow Of Smoke' was taken from Jeremy Taylor's 'The Rule And Exercises Of Holy Dying' (London, 1656)

Line-up:

David Tibet

HÖH

Björk Gudmundsdóttir [yes, it's Björk...]

Akiko Hada

Thór Eldon

Godkrist

Liz Aster

Bogomil Font

Asa Hlín Svavarsdóttir

Birgir Baldursson

The Venerable 'Chimed Rig'dzin Lama, Rinpoche

Johnny Triumph

Rose McDowall

Joolie Wood

Einar Oern

Tómas M. Tómasson

Falling

The Dream Of A Shadow Of Smoke

Lament For My Suzanne

Fields Of Rape (Sightless Return)

Passing Horses

Anyway, People Die

To Blackened Earth

Oh Merry-Go-Round

Crowleymass Unveiled [CD only]

Paperback Honey [CD only]

The Fall Of Christopher Robin [CD only]

Fields Of Rape And Smoke [CD only]

Merry-Go-Round And Around [CD only]

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3 different pressings: 1st with purple and black labels and insert, 2nd with black and white labels, 3rd with new Steven Stapleton collage art cover. The first two pressings have the same white covers. Recorded at Cefalu.
Scratchings: 'Fang' and 'Maldoror Est Mort'

Line-up:

David Tibet

John Balance

Fritz Häaman

Salt

Lashtal

Caresse

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LP with two different covers (hand pasted cover by David, ltd. 1000 & a blue foil embossed cover)

Line-up:

David Tibet

Steven Stapleton

John Murphy

John Balance

John Fothergill

Alone Into The Alone

Only Shadows Of Hooks

Christ's First Howling [CD only, from From Torture To Conscience]

Fields Of Rape [CD only, from From Torture To Conscience]

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Live in Tokyo 1988.
Vinyl version comes with a b/w poster.
Scratchings on both sides: 'That's All Folks'.

Line-up:

David Tibet

Douglas P.

Tony Wakeford

Rose McDowall

Steven Stapleton

Ian Read

Freya Aswynn

Panzer Ruins (In The Hands Of Gillespie) [studio, from Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God]

That's All, Folks

Invocation

Happy Birthday

Black Flowers, Please

Oh Coal Black Smith

Farewell

The Birds Have Stopped Singing

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Ltd. red vinyl with scratchings: 'Which Silently, And By None Seen' and 'Grounds Great And Green'
LP with Lyric Sheet.

Line-up:

David Tibet

John Balance

Michael Cashmore

David Kenny

Nick Saloman

Steven Stapleton

Lucifer Over London

Sad Go Round (originally by Groundhogs, Tony McPhee, 1974)

The Seven Seals Are Revealed At The End Of Time As Seven Bows:

The Bloodbow, The Pissbow, The Painbow, The Faminebow, The Deathbow, The Angerbow And The Hohohobow

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Cassette has three extra tracks.
Maldoror reissue with new cover art, ltd. 2000
Scratchings [LAY4]: 'Qvis Est Iste Qvi Venit' and 'Hee Comes! Soone You Shall See"
Scratchings [MAL123]: 'He Is Near...' and '...At The Door'

Harbringer 001

Of the bonus 7" there's also a remixed version [Harbringer 001], with the NWW track renamed to 'Burial Of The Stoned Sardine'.

Line-up:

David Tibet [all tracks]

Steven Stapleton [3,4,7]

John Murphy [1,2]

John Fothergill [1,2]

Annie Anxiety [1,2]

The Youth [1,2]

Roger Smith [1,2]

Nick Rogers [1,2]

Fritz Ha„man[(5,]

Andy [7,8]

Tim Spy [7]

Ach Golgotha (Maldoror Is Dead)

The Mystical Body Of Christ in Chorazaim (The Great In The Small)

No Hiding From The Blackbird [CD only, from Harbringer001]

The Burial Of The Sardine [CD only, NWW, from Harbringer001]

Salt [CD only, from Lashtal 10"]

Lashtal [CD only, from Lashtal 10"]

Maldoror Rising [live Amsterdam August 12, 1984, rereleased bootleg]

Maldoror Falling [live Brighton 1984, rereleased bootleg]

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