45 Grave - Sleep In Safety

45 Grave Was One of the First and Best American Goth/Deathrock Bands • Fronted by Dinah Cancer, the Group Also Included Paul B. Cutler (The Consumers), Don Bolles (The Germs), Rob Graves (The Bags), and Paul Roessler (The Screamers) • 1983’s Sleep in Safety Was the Lone 45 Grave Studio Album and the Only One Featuring All of the Band’s Original Members • The Graphic True-Crime Track “Partytime” Is the Album’s Most Famous Song, a 1985 Single Version of Which Appeared on The Return of the Living Dead Soundtrack • The Record Also Included Such Standout Songs as “Evil” and “45 Grave” • Real Gone Music’s “Exhumation” of the LP Includes the Original Gatefold Art with Lyrics • Also Includes a Custom Inner Sleeve Drawn from the Very Rare “A Tale of Strange Phenomena” Press Release • Green with Black Splatter Vinyl 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 Exenemeets- 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 1983’s Sleep in Safety, their lone studio release and only recording with the band’s 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 album’s gatefold edition complete with lyrics and adding a custom inner sleeve drawn from the band’s very rare “A Tale of Strange Phenomena” press release—green with black splatter vinyl! Folks have been dying for this one to come back from the (45) grave!