You Must Be Certain Of The Devil (2025 Remaster)

Available on CD with lyric booklet and 12x24 poster and on Vinyl with printed Euro inner sleeve with artwork by James Nocito, and 12x24 poster. Mastered by Heba Kadry, lacquers cut by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering, and pressed onto high quality vinyl by RTI. Riding in on an eviscerating vocal alarm call and originally released in 1988 as the final installment of her Masque of the Red Death trilogy, Diamanda Galás' You Must Be Certain of the Devil is as unflinching now as it was on release in 1988. It remains a swaggering, furious fuck-you to those who might cast aside the sick and dying in the name of faith and scripture.Often misunderstood as simply “dark” for its subject matter, You Must Be Certain of the Devil in fact shines a light of such total exposure it leaves nowhere to hide, forensically unmasking the fury and pain of real grief and the vast spectrum of emotions rendered by the AIDS epidemic. It is an album that looks you square in the eye, pins you against a wall and m