Misanthropy

Death In June - Lesson 1 : Misanthropy

Ripped from a vinyl album released on New European Recordings (BADVC 726) in 1986 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. The Misanthropy compilation closed the door on Death In June's post-punk pre-Nada era after the band fractured in 1985 prior to the more experimental and varied work with David Tibet. Thank you to thehappyone for this excellent 24-bit rip of a difficult to find album.

A1 Heaven Street
A2 We Drive East
A3 In The Night Time
A4 State Laughter
A5 Holy Water
B1 All Alone In Her Nirvana
B2 Till The Living Flesh Is Burned
B3 The Guilty Have No Pride
B4 Fields
B5 Death Of The West

Weird Folk

Death In June - The World That Summer

Originally released on a vinyl album in 1986. Ripped here from a compact disc reissue on New European Recordings (BADVCCD 9) to high quality lossless flac audio.

1 Blood Of Winter
2 Hidden Among The Leaves
3 Torture By Roses
4 Come Before Christ And Murder Love
5 Love Murder
6 Rule Again
7 Break The Black Ice
8 Rocking Horse Night
9 Blood Victory
10 Death Of A Man
11 Reprise 1
12 Reprise 2
13 Reprise 3

Crisis, What Crisis?

Death In June - The Guilty Have No Pride

Originally released on New European Recordings (BADVC 3) in 1983. Ripped here from high quality 16-bit digital sources. The four tracks from Heaven Street are also included - Nothing Changes and Nation are worth the price of admission alone.

1 Till The Living Flesh Is Burned
2 All Alone In Her Nirvana
3 State Laughter
4 Nothing Changes
5 Nation
6 Heaven Street Mk II
7 The Guilty Have No Pride
8 Heaven Street
9 In The Night Time
10 We Drive East
11 Holy Water

From Woking With Love

Death In June - Come Before Christ And Murder Love

Re-ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on New European Recordings (12 BADVC 73) in 1985 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. Likely their last great work - always an emotive topic amongst DIJ fans - a bit like are they or are they not Nazis? The early stuff was always their best - David Tibet just made them too weird, as if they weren't already strange enough.

A Come Before Christ And Murder Love
B Torture By Roses

Hail the New European

Death In June - Come Before Christ And Murder Love

Easily their most accomplished song and quite simply their finest as far as I was concerned, but  it was all downhill after this. The accompanying album, The World That Summer clearly missed original members Leagas and Tony Wakeford,  the direction now seemingly set by Current 93's David Tibet (or whatever he called himself in 1986).
Come Before Christ And Murder Love is a beautiful song, Douglas P's melancholy melody lingers whilst acoustic strings strum over snapping snares and a lone trumpet, ooh that trumpet is a joyous sound. It just works so well. For the sake of the archive, here's what I said about this record a few years back when first ripped as an mp3...

"Before anybody raises the usual debates and condemnations of Death in June, don't bother, take it somewhere else. The Nazi imagery used by the band will always be deemed as controversial, as will the song titles (well 90% of them), the bands choice of onstage clothing and so on and so on. I just think the original band wanted to be Joy Division and took it too far.
Death In June's earlier work is by far their best, with the anthemic Nada! LP being my particular recommendation to those who don't know the band's work. Nada! was followed by this 12", it was never surpassed. Pounding drums, heavily strung acoustic guitar, unusually melodic vocals, those keyboards and that wonderful trumpet!
The band could not really better this and never did. Douglas P. still travels the world with his guitar and his silly headware, strumming to small crowds of die-hard fans. The back catelogue is still regularly reissued, but products recorded after 1986 are not recommended as their best."

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on New European Recordings (12 BADVC 73) in 1985 to high resolution 24-bit FLAC audio.
A. Come Before Christ And Murder Love
B. Torture By Roses

Breached Birth

Death In June - Born Again

The first of two Death In June 12" singles ripped at 24/96, Born Again takes the band down a more electronic path as they clearly have learnt to program sequencers and drum machines rather than the usual snare driven marching tunes. It is still a very dark doom-laden affair which lyrically trods in some very bad places. Re-works of The Calling (a marching tune if I ever heard one) and Carousel adorn the flip. These were Patrick Leagas songs which he would reproduce a few years later under his Sixth Comm banner.

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on New European Recordings (BAD VC 69) in 1985 to high resolution 24-bit FLAC audio.
A. Born Again
B1. The Calling Mk.II
B2. Carousel (Bolt Mix)

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Death In June - Archive Material

Death In June - Nada!

Another lossless re-rip. Regrettably my 1985 vinyl album is not in good enough condition for a quality rip, so I've used the 1990 CD which featured a few extra tracks. For some unexplicable reason the extra tracks, b-sides from two early EPs, were put at the start of the CD. For this post I've put them in a seperate folder so the album can be enjoyed in it's original order.

The running order was resolved for the 2002 reissue but then the album was remastered too much and brickwalled to death.

Nada! is an eclectic mix of acoustic neo-folk, industrial techno beats fused with post-punk darkness and doom laden anarchy. Well worthy listening, especially for the classics, The Calling and She Said Destroy.

Not available due to recent reissue

Death in June - Archive Material

This will be the last Death In June rarity from me, and it is very likely one of the rarest. This tape was released by former member Patrick Leagas in 1985, shortly after leaving the band. It is a 20 track compilation of unreleased rehearsals, demos and live tracks recorded between 1980 and 1983, and was distributed by mail order only.

Death in June is led by Douglas Pearce, better known as Douglas P.He formed Death in June in 1980 in England, along with Patrick Leagas and Tony Wakeford. Pearce and Wakeford had been members of the political punk band Crisis, which formed in 1977. Crisis had gained a substantial following in the UK punk subculture. Crisis performed at rallies for The Right to Work, Rock Against Racism, and the Anti-Nazi League.
After some tension in the group regarding the direction it was taking, Wakeford was asked to leave Death in June in January 1984 after a show in Paris, France. Wakeford then began a post-punk project called Above the Ruins shortly before founding Sol Invictus. Although relations were bad for several years after his enforced departure, Wakeford re-established his friendship with Douglas P. in the late 1980s. He remains on good terms with Douglas P. and has appeared as a guest on stage during one Death in June show in London in 1998.
The Nada! LP introduced a contemporary dance sound to Death in June accompanied by other tracks with acoustic and post-punk rock doom laden elements. Douglas P. would later state this period was brought about by Patrick Leagas, which is further justified by Leagas' other work as Sixth Comm and later by his joining Mother Destruction, where he would further explore themes of Germanic paganism and historically inspired music.
Patrick Leagas abruptly left the group in April 1985 after a tour of Italy, resulting in many cancelled shows in the UK and Europe. Leagas, who began calling himself Patrick O-Kill, later formed Sixth Comm. From that point until the present, Death in June has consisted solely of the work of Douglas P. and various collaborators, most notably David Tibet of Current 93 and Boyd Rice of NON.
Over Death in June's two decades of existence, numerous shifts in style and presentation have occurred, resulting in an overall shift from initial post-punk and Industrial Records influence to a more acoustic and folk music-oriented approach. Although sometimes considered controversial (largely due to usage of themes and imagery relating to Nazi Germany), Death in June has become very influential in certain post-industrial musical circles. Douglas P.'s influence was instrumental in sparking neo-folk, a style which his music has subsequently become intrinsic.

A1. Speeches

A2. We Drive East I

A3. We Drive East II

A4. Knives

A5. Nation

A6. In The Night Time I

A7. In The Night Time II

A8. Himmel Strasse

A9. Nothing Changes

A10.Untitled

A11.Untitled Intermission

B1. Nirvana

B2. Untitled

B3. Untitled

B4. Born Again

B5. Torture Garden

B6. Pleasant Intermission

B7. Calling

B8. Carousel

B9. Doubt To Nothing

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