LABEL:Real Gone Music
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 10/14/2022
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1983
VARIANT:Purple w/ Black Streaks Vinyl LP

Formed from putrefying remnants of The Germs, The Consumers, The Bags, The Gun Club, and The Screamers among other L.A. punk outfits, 45 Grave were arguably the first American Goth/deathrock band and inarguably one of the best. Fronted by the Exene-meets-Barbarella vocal and visual stylings of Dinah Cancer (still one of the greatest stage names in a punk rock genre full of em), 45 Grave also featured Paul B. Cutler on guitar, Don Bolles on drums, Rob (Ritter) Graves on bass, and Paul Roessler on keyboards, and from that all-star line-up came 1983s Sleep in Safety, their lone studio release and only recording with the bands original members. Probably most famous for the first appearance of the horrifyingly graphic, true-crime track Partytime, the single version of which was subsequently cut in 1985 and featured on The Return of the Living Dead soundtrack, Sleep in Safety also offered the early MTV track Evil and the band theme song 45 Grave among other blandishments for those who like their rock and roll with a side of the macabre. For our Real Gone Music exhumation of this classic record, we have embalmed a very special edition, preserving the original albums gatefold edition complete with lyrics and adding a custom inner sleeve drawn from the bands very rare A Tale of Strange Phenomena press releasepurple with black streaks vinyl! Folks have been dying for this one!