I need to get back in the habit of doing Digging For Fires more regularly, maybe getting things going with a 7″ will be just the trick.

45 Grave started up during the monumental LA punk movement of the late 70′s who have had an on again, off again career for almost 3 decades now. The band at one time featured members of the Bags and Germs., but it’s only constant has been the dark heart and soul of the band from the beginning, singer Dinah Cancer.

More so than any of their other LA punk cohorts 45 Grave were always much gloomier, darker and an even stronger fascination with Horror. The band even ran under the name Vox Pop concurrently to 45 Grave, using that alias to experiment with a more proto-industrial sound until the whole projected was killed off in 1981 to focus solely on 45 Grave. By the time they released their debut album Sleep In Safety, 45 Grave was already full on Goth & Death Rock to the bone.

Black Cross is their debut 7″ and sees a band coming into their own… two of my favorite LA Punk era tracks that in many ways sound like X gone Goth.

45 Grave – Black Cross 7″

- My Pal the Crook