Purgatory Dance Party

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Purgatory Dance Party
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 27, 2007
RecordedWrightway Studios
Baltimore MD
April – October 2007
Genre Avant-garde metal, experimental rock, alternative metal
Length69:58
Label Rotten Records
Producer Drew Lamonde, Todd Smith, Jasan Stepp
Polkadot Cadaver chronology
Purgatory Dance Party
(2007)
Sex Offender
(2011)

Purgatory Dance Party is the debut album by Polkadot Cadaver released via internet pre-sales on November 17, 2007, with a street date of November 27, 2007. The cover art is a reference to the John Travolta film Saturday Night Fever . Dog Fashion Disco had earlier covered the theme tune to another Travolta film, Grease .

Contents

A re-recorded version of the album was released on the Razor To Wrist label in June 2020 [1]

Track listing

All songs written by Polkadot Cadaver.

No.TitleLength
1."Haunted Holiday"2:01
2."A Wolf in Jesus Skin"3:50
3."Purgatory Dance Party"4:08
4."Deathwish"3:35
5."Phantom Limb"3:18
6."Long Strange Trip to Paradise"2:35
7."Bring me the Head of Andy Warhol"3:26
8."Chloroform Girl"2:56
9."What's the Worst Thing That Could Happen?"4:32
10."Brainwash"3:53
11."Pure Bedlam for Halfbreeds"3:04
12."Sole Survivor"32:36
Total length:69:58

The song "Sole Survivor" is in fact only 4:30 long; the track then contains 5 minutes of silence, and from 9:30 onwards it consists of a looped voice saying the word "Satan".

Personnel

Additional personnel

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References

  1. @RazorToWristRec (10 July 2020). "Polkadot Cadaver — "Purgatory Dance Party" • OUT NOWStream the album in its entirety on o…" (Tweet) via Twitter.