Sisters of the Red Death

Vendetta Red | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 30, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000A2APXU
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,580 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Vendetta Red Cried Rape on Their Date with Destiny

2. The Body and the Blood

3. A Dark Heart Silhouette

4. Shiver

5. In Lieu of Dead Brides

6. Silhouette Serenade

7. The Banshee Ballet

8. The Great Castration

9. Gloria

10. Run

11. Coital Improv

12. A Joyless Euphoria

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is brilliant!, September 9, 2005

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B. Sidorowicz - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sisters of the Red Death (Audio CD)

To start off, the lyrics and music on the opening track, sent shivers down my spine. I read their article in AP and was amazed at the themes and subject matter on this CD, and I couldn't wait to hear it for myself. The album is in essence like a novel from the perspective of Gloria (the main character throughout the whole album). It's based on an ancient cult that would set themselves on fire to purify their souls, the hypocrisy within religious institutions, mix in some ancient greek characters such as Medusa, and brutally discriptive lyrics sung with genuine emotion and sincerity, and a story of overcoming and Gloria's rise to power, and her eventual revenge. This is simply brilliant! I hope I didn't give anything away, since it is like a poetic novel or movie set to music, but so many reviewers are bashing the lyrics without even understanding the story the words are telling. These are definately not sugar coated lyrics, but instead are as honest as any I have ever heard. This album will definately take you for a ride, with emotional highs and lows unlike any I have heard before. And in the end it will leave you feeling like any great psycologically twisting movie, and you'll ask yourself "what the hell was that?" and absolutely love it.

Key tracks: "Vendetta Red Cried Rape On Their Date With Destiny," "Silhouette Serenade," & "Gloria."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another work of art., October 7, 2005

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Mindaside - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sisters of the Red Death (Audio CD)

Vendetta Red does it again folks. The pervious album Between Never and Now was excellent. I believe that VR has outdone themselves this time. I had a chance to hear the songs in concert before the album came out and i was blown away. Then the CD came out and i was blown away again. In Lieu of Dead Brides is the best with Ryann from Schoolyard Heroes.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Brave and Brilliant Classic..., October 7, 2005

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JPE (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sisters of the Red Death (Audio CD)

Following their jack-of-all-trades major label debut (hyped to the stars but ultimately underperforming) Vendetta Red have decided to throw caution to the wind and write probably the best ultra violent, ultra brutal post-nuclear war feminist concept album ever released...

Every one of these songs is easily a stone-cold classic, but probably the best thing about this album is that the band never relents. Each song is superb in itself but the reckless abandon with which they throw chorus after chorus at you, song after song, all wrapped up in off-kilter Bowie verses, punk rhythms, thrashing drums, and probably the single bravest vocal and lyrical performance I've ever been treated to makes this album stand far and above any album released this year. What other band can you name that leave an awesome, fist-pumping anthem as the last song on their album because they just know the quality of what precedes it?

To be honest, this album will likely under perform as well, but not for the efforts of the band (the lyrical content is far too bleak for the mainstream - rape, murder, war, castration). If you're even reading this review, you're interested to find out about this record so let me lay it out for you: buy this album now, because you're going to be treated to the most courageous, down-right brilliant rock album ever - moving, tuneful, exciting, witty and unique.