Love... Is Like Dying
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Love... Is Like Dying is the sixth album by the American
deathrock
band, Theatre of Ice
and their first for Orphanage Records.
Orphanage Records, an American label with a solid reputation in the Gothic rock
and Deathrock
music scenes, offered to re-release The Resurrection; but were unable to obtain any of the masters, except for the two live recordings, from Demented Mind Mill Records. So Orphanage Records asked the band to re-record 7 of the songs from the album, one from The Haunting
, two from Beyond the Graves of Passion
, 5 new originals, and reuse the two live recordings. These 17 "new" songs were released in 1986 as Love... Is Like Dying. Even though John Johnson is credited as playing on the album, he had previously left the group and only appears on the two live recordings.
Love... Is Like Dying was an immediate success for both the band and for their new label. With Songs as diverse as Dreams of Fire and In The Attic, the album greatly increased their fan base and for the first time put them on the radar of college radio stations across the country. This opened the door for the band to tour parts of the country it had never played live to, it was just up to their label to assure them that "nothing bad would happen" if they were to go on an extended tour.
United States
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deathrock
Deathrock
Deathrock is a term used to identify a sub-genre of punk rock incorporating horror elements and spooky atmospherics, that emerged on the West Coast of the United States in 1979.-Characteristics:...
band, Theatre of Ice
Theatre of Ice
Theatre of Ice were an early Deathrock band that formed in the Nevada desert in December 1978. Initially formed to record a soundtrack for a horror movie, the members instead evolved into what some claim was the first Deathrock band...
and their first for Orphanage Records.
Orphanage Records, an American label with a solid reputation in the Gothic rock
Gothic rock
Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes...
and Deathrock
Deathrock
Deathrock is a term used to identify a sub-genre of punk rock incorporating horror elements and spooky atmospherics, that emerged on the West Coast of the United States in 1979.-Characteristics:...
music scenes, offered to re-release The Resurrection; but were unable to obtain any of the masters, except for the two live recordings, from Demented Mind Mill Records. So Orphanage Records asked the band to re-record 7 of the songs from the album, one from The Haunting
The Haunting (1982 album by Theatre of Ice)
The Haunting was the first full length album by the American deathrock/gothic rock band Theatre of Ice, recorded in 1981, and released in 1982.The recording sessions took place in a supposedly haunted house somewhere in the deserts of Nevada...
, two from Beyond the Graves of Passion
Beyond the Graves of Passion
Beyond the Graves of Passion is the second album recorded by the Deathrock/Gothic rock band Theatre of Ice. It was recorded in 1982 and 1983 in an actual haunted house, and released on Demented Mind Mill Records in 1983...
, 5 new originals, and reuse the two live recordings. These 17 "new" songs were released in 1986 as Love... Is Like Dying. Even though John Johnson is credited as playing on the album, he had previously left the group and only appears on the two live recordings.
Love... Is Like Dying was an immediate success for both the band and for their new label. With Songs as diverse as Dreams of Fire and In The Attic, the album greatly increased their fan base and for the first time put them on the radar of college radio stations across the country. This opened the door for the band to tour parts of the country it had never played live to, it was just up to their label to assure them that "nothing bad would happen" if they were to go on an extended tour.
Musicians
- Brent Johnson - Vocals, Guitars, Effects, Drums
- John Johnson - Guitar, Synthesizer, Keyboards, Percussion
- Dale Garrard - Guitars, Vocals, Ice
Track listing
- Gone With The Worms
- She Sleeps
- In The Attic
- Dark Haired Lady
- Somewhere Anywhere
- You Don't Know What You're Doin
- Funeral Games (live)
- Under a Cold Blue Moon
- Livin in Fiction
- Dark Horizons
- Dreams of Fire
- Crawl
- Golden Girl
- Hungry For Ruin
- Creature
- Santa Claws (live)
Reviews
- OPtion MagazineOption (music magazine)Option was a music magazine based in Los Angeles, California.-History:Originally called OPtion, it, along with Sound Choice, were the dual successors to the earlier music magazine OP, published by John Foster and the Lost Music Network and known for its diverse scope and the role it played in...
- The title says it all—gloomy, overdone Halloween music. Moanings through delays, delayed guitars, morbid lyrics, spooky synthesizer, and drum machine. I think it's great, in the same kind of way as a Herschell Gordon LewisHerschell Gordon LewisHerschell Gordon Lewis is an American filmmaker, best known for creating the "splatter film" subgenre of horror...
film. I'm not sure how much of the cheesiness is tongue-in-cheek, although I suspect quite a bit of it is, but either way there are some great sounds here, and it's thoroughly enjoyable to listen to. Come Halloween I'm gonna play this out my window, watch the little kids run, and save myself some money on candy. -- Scott Lewis.