Leichenschrei

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Leichenschrei
LeichenschreiThermidor.jpg
Studio album by
SPK
ReleasedApril 1982 (USA) / January 1983 (UK)
RecordedOctober 1981 – March 1982
StudioSPK/Side Effekts Studio
Genre Industrial, experimental, musique concrète, dark ambient
Length43:09
Label Thermidor
Producer SPK
SPK chronology
Information Overload Unit
(1981)		Leichenschrei
(1982)		 Machine Age Voodoo
(1984)
Alternative cover
SPK Leichenschrei.jpg
1992 CD reissue

Leichenschrei is the second album by the band SPK. It was released in 1982 on Thermidor Records in the United States and in 1983 on the band's own Side Effekts label in the United Kingdom. The title is a German word meaning "corpse scream", and might refer to an alleged supernatural behavior exhibited by the deceased.

Contents

The band was listed on the initial Thermidor release as "SPK", although subsequent vinyl reissues were credited to "Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv", a reference to the leftist German patients' group of the same name. The name was misspelled on the CD reissue as "Socialistisches Patienten Kollektiv".

Legacy

In a 1987 interview for Italian fanzine Snowdonia, Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots stated that he thought industrial music should have stopped after Leichenschrei, describing it as a "brilliant album" and "nobody could make a better, more definitive work in industrial music". [1]

Track listing

No track listing was provided with the initial release on Thermidor Records. The first side of vinyl editions of the album end with a lockgroove. Sides one and two of the vinyl editions are labeled "Seite ((Lysso))" and "Seite ((Klono))", respectively. [2]

Side one

  1. "Genetic Transmission" – 3:17
  2. "Post-Mortem" – 2:24
  3. "Desolation" – 1:18
  4. "Napalm (Terminal Patient)" – 2:39
  5. "Cry from the Sanatorium" – 2:26
  6. "Baby Blue Eyes" – 2:38
  7. "Israel" – 2:46
  8. "Internal Bleeding" – 1:46
  9. "Chamber Music" – 3:26

Side two

  1. "Despair" – 4:45
  2. "The Agony of the Plasma" – 3:03
  3. "Day of Pigs" – 4:18
  4. "Wars of Islam" – 4:31
  5. "Maladia Europa (The European Sickness)" – 3:50

Personnel

According to the album liner notes: [3]

Charts

Chart (1983)Peak
position
UK Indie Chart [4] 14

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States1982Thermidor Records LP T-9
United Kingdom1983Side EffektsLPSER 02
Germany1986Normal RecordsLPNORMAL 26
United Kingdom1992The Grey Area CD SPK 2CD

Notes

  1. ↑ "The Legendary Pink Dots – Snowdonia, 1987" . Retrieved 30 March 2009.
  2. ↑ "SPK Discography – Leichenschrei". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2009.
  3. ↑ "SPK – Leichenschrei (LP) at Discogs". Discogs . 1982. Retrieved 30 March 2009.
  4. ↑ Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1989. Cherry Red Books. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2014.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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