Name: Dark Times
Brand: Doctors of Madness

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MS0001LP

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Limited edition

1000

Release date

2022-05-06

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5055869546522

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Artist

Doctors of Madness

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

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Molecular Scream

The Doctors of Madness are the missing link between David Bowie and The Sex Pistols. Exploding onto the music scene in 1975 with their theatrical, William Burroughs-inspired Sci-fi nightmare, they were misunderstood by many, but those who knew understood the importance of the band’s dangerous, uncompromising approach to lyrics, to music and to performance.

Among the many fans of the band were acts as diverse as The Damned, Vic Reeves, Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, Spiritualized, Julian Cope, The Adverts, The Skids and Simple Minds. They were trailblazers and pioneers in rock music and theatre. Their avant-garde approach influenced punk bands that followed them.

Now after forty years since they imploded, they are back with an album seething with lyrical anger and passion. Produced by John Leckie (Radiohead, Muse), Dark Times is a musical dissection of modern life and contemporary politics. It features contributions from Joe Elliott (Def Leppard), Sarah Jane Morris (Communards), Terry Edwards (PJ Harvey) among others. Prepare for an incredible set of songs from Richard "Kid" Strange.

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Exploding onto the music scene in 1975 with their theatrical, William Burroughs-inspired Sci-fi nightmare, they were misunderstood by many, but those who knew understood the importance of the band’s dangerous, uncompromising approach to lyrics, to music and to performance.

Now, 40 years after they imploded, they are back…with an album seething with lyrical anger and passion. It is the most potent and incisive musical dissection of modern life and contemporary politics released the decade. With tracks titles like So Many ways To Hurt You, Sour Hour, Make It Stop! and the ground-breaking sonic assault of the title track Dark Times, Richard “Kid” Strange proves once again that he has his finger firmly on the pulse of our times, just as he had when he founded the band in 1974. Produced by John Leckie (Radiohead, Stone Roses, Pink Floyd), the new album, Dark Times, features contributions from Joe Elliott (Def Leppard), Sarah Jane Morris (Communards), Terry Edwards (PJ Harvey, Nick Cave etc), Steve ‘Boltz’ Bolton (The Who, Scott Walker) and the young protest singer Lily Bud, alongside the current thrilling and thunderous DOM rhythm section of Susumu Ukei (bass guitar) and Mackii Ukei (drums) of the Japanese extreme glam-metal band Sister Paul, and Dylan O Bates (violin and keyboards).

Dark Times

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