DAMNED - The Black Album 2LP garage this reissue is part of

this reissue is part of an archival series that chronicles Franco Battiato’s masterful body of work from 1971 to 1978

Housed in a sewage green/blue jacket featuring a crepe-masked duo reminiscent of pulpy VHS covers

at times sounding like funeral hymns (opener “Of The Living”) or spiritual invocations

"Little by Little" rattles and jangles

Vernal Equinox

DAMNED - The Black Album 2LP garage this reissue is part ofThrough 1980 the Damned spent some 1078 hours in the studio recording mixing and this 25th anniversary edition of THE BLACK ALBUM contains all of the released material during that year plus one previously unissued mix. The Black Album was the bands rural album and their most psychedelic. Initially there were sessions in February and March at Wessex where MGE had been cut. Captain had come up with Rabid (Over You) as a contender for the next single and