Paul Chain and Violet Theatre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVC0dJnz-ho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSBE-KdI_AE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxmSjijpQAA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Maluflb50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDLBLvx-fRQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibWVPQmiEO0


Since I posted Black Hole just now I would be remiss to not post some links to the god of Italian doom metal PAUL CHAIN. He was in the band Death SS (meaning In Death of Steve Sylvester, who was the singer) back in the late '70s and eventually quit to go solo, taking several members, after he cut his eye out in a Satanic ritual (!). After that he reportedly went Jehovah's Witness (!!!) but continued to make the darkest and weirdest doom metal of all time, singing in his own self-created phonetic language when other members weren't singing for him. The earliest stuff here is thee darkest and creepiest and very, very foreign... not just to Americans but probably anyone who hasn't experienced the grave itself. Later on he did a lot of LSD-drenched improv guitar stuff, some noise, some organ material and some great doom/stoner rock with members of Cathedral. Check this out first and see what you think. Like the Black Hole there are moments of sheer '80s metal (especially "Electroshock" where he actually gets thrashy) but the great deal of it is grim as hell. "I remember a black mass..."

- Curt