{"id":8863,"date":"2026-06-05T12:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/?p=8863"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:20:44","slug":"the-damned-phantasmagoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/2026\/06\/05\/the-damned-phantasmagoria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Damned-Phantasmagoria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/R-518549-1353364121-7541.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8864\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/R-518549-1353364121-7541.jpg 350w, http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/R-518549-1353364121-7541-287x300.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Punk band The Damned formed in the late 70&#8217;s with Brian James, Dave Vanian, Rat Scabies and Captain Sensible. This is the sixth release from 1985 and another one bought on cassette in the 90&#8217;s. By this time only Vanian and Scabies were left of the original four adding a new bassist and guitarist. Moving away from Punk they went in a more Gothic direction as you might expect from the cover. I liked a couple songs on the cassette &#8220;Shadow Of Love&#8221; and &#8220;The Eighth Day&#8221; and put them on some of my cassette mix tapes. I found this record at Vertigo. It&#8217;s a promo copy in  heavy cardboard sleeve containing the record with a label sized hole in the middle. It looks like someone has glued the front cover to this sleeve but not the back cover and written the name of the record on the spine in blue ball point. All the songs are pretty interesting. I had their 2001 album Grave Disorder which marked the return of Captain Sensible and the departure of Scabies. They last released a record of covers earlier this year with the return of Scabies as a tribute of original member Brian James who died in 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punk band The Damned formed in the late 70&#8217;s with Brian James, Dave Vanian, Rat Scabies and Captain Sensible. This&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/2026\/06\/05\/the-damned-phantasmagoria\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Damned-Phantasmagoria<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8865,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions\/8865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}