Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ is the sixth album for Christian Death

Christian Death

Christian Death is an American deathrock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1979. The band was founded and fronted by Rozz Williams. Christian Death is most notable for their first album Only Theatre of Pain....

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Album Cover

The cover for Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ is an image of Jesus Christ in a self-made tourniquet, using heroin, an implicit attempt to incite controversy

Controversy

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. The cover had an impact on the band, leading to a cancellation of shows in Boston. It was also censored in NME and Melody Maker magazine, with NME rating it a 1 out of 10, saying "may the good lord strike them down." The controversy surrounding the cover art helped make Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ Christian Death's highest selling album from the 1980s.

Track listing

1. "This Is Heresy" - 4:21
2. "Jesus Where's the Sugar" - 3:14
3. "Wretched Mankind" - 4:24
4. "Third Antichrist" - 10:21
5. "Erection" - 5:23
6. "Ten Thousand Hundred Times" - 4:42
7. "Incendiary Lover" - 3:01
8. "Window Pain" - 9:15

CD version contains the additional song "Tragedy" as track 4.

Personnel

• Valor
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   - vocals, guitar
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  , violin
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  , piano
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• Gitane DeMone
  Gitane Demone
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   - vocals, keyboards
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• Johann Schumann - bass
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• Barry Galvin - guitar, vocals
• David Glass - drums
  Drum kit
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