Various - Killed By Deathrock Volume 2 LP

Our Review: Copping the name of this series from the infamous Killed By Death bootlegs of punk obscurities, Sacred Bones mines the equally fertile historical archives of the early goth days in the early to mid '80s. As on the first Killed By Deathrock compilation, the curation slants heavily towards the driving, danse macabre grooves of the Bauhaus/Joy Division/Christian Death axis of post-punk. The smeared mascara gems are plenty including a couple from relatively well-known acts. Red Temple Spirits are probably the best known of the lot, hailing from Los Angeles from the the late '80s and maintaining a solid connection to Savage Republic. Their contribution is the cracklingly great "Dark Spirits" from their debut album where the band's yelping doomsayer William Faircloth fronts a diabolically intense take on The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn-era Pink Floyd. Skeletal Family and Red Zebra are the only other bands here who had released anything beyond a single, a cassette or a mini-LP. The