Released 25 February 1982 Producer Dave Hunt Release date 25 February 1982 Recorded September 1981 –1982 | Length 29:51 Artist Diamanda Galás Label Y Records | |
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Studio Nadir Studios, London, England and San Diego, CA Songs Wild Women With Steak-Knives (The Homicidal Love Song for Solo Scream), The Litanies of Satan Genres Experimental music, Avant-garde music, Experimental pop Similar Plague Mass, You Must Be Certain of the Devil, The Divine Punishment, Masque of the Red Death, Saint of the Pit | ||
The litanies of satan diamanda galas
The Litanies of Satan is the debut album by American avant-garde artist Diamanda Galás, released in the United Kingdom by Y Records in 1982; it was released in her home country in 1989. In some issues, the vinyl sides are oppositely labeled, while all compact disc reissues also present the tracks in the incorrect order.
Contents
Content
The text for "The Litanies of Satan" is taken from a section of Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire. According to the album liner notes, the piece "devotes itself to the emeraldine perversity of the life struggle in Hell." The notes go on to state that "Wild Women with Steak-Knives," from the tragedy-grotesque by Diamanda Galás Eyes Without Blood, is "a cold examination of unrepentant monomania, the devoration instinct, for which the naive notion of filial mercy will only cock a vestigial grin."
Reception
Trouser Press described it as "a disturbing and provocative piece."