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caligulamprey
Jan 23, 2007

It never stops.



Devil Doll were (is?) a super proggy, gothy, metal-tinged ridiculous band that someone introduced me to in my teens when I was listening to Marilyn Manson. He turned to me and went "Oh, you think that's goth? THIS IS GOTH" in a very Crocodile Dundee way.

I say ridiculous because the backstory is a huge pile of absurd statements, possible lies a Residents-level of mystery (Mr. Doctor's name was revealed a couple years back when he wrote a giant book on 7" punk releases in the UK):

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The first work of Devil Doll was The Mark of the Beast, recorded in Tivoli Studios, Ljubljana in the last half of 1987. After being finished, a single copy pressed, in February 1988. The cover to the album was painted by Mr. Doctor himself, who keeps the album in his home to this day. No other copies exist: "This is a painting, not a graphic work".

Later the same year, work on a second composition began. This work, entitled The Girl Who Was... Death, was inspired by the 1967 British television series The Prisoner. 500 copies of the album were originally pressed, of which only 150 were released. These were distributed out amongst the audience of the second live performance of the composition, each with a unique inlay created by Mr. Doctor. Some of these inlays were written in his own blood. The remaining 350 copies of the album were destroyed by Mr. Doctor once he returned home.

That's the way he operated: press up some copies, give 'em away, burn the rest in a bonfire. He hasn't released anything since '96 but insists that he still records on a regular basis, he just doesn't have any interest in releasing anything.

You can hear Dies Irae in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_xdvEUC9Y4

caligulamprey fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Oct 30, 2014

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