Christian Death - "Evil Becomes Rule"

In terms of pissing on your own legacy, Christian death are absolute masters. The original version of this band was probably one of the most important acts in the evolution of alternative and extreme music. You can trace Goth, death metal, and black metal back to their seminal debut album “Only Theatre of Pain”. However, since 1985 they have been a culturally bankrupt façade of their counterculture initial incarnation. Valor Kand has led a weak facsimile of the original band with a revolving door of bit part-playing co-contributors. This is another in a long line of really bad albums and it is laughable that they have spent the last thirty-odd years trading on essentially six years of brilliance.