Christian Death: Why Rozz Williams Sounds British
Spawning whatever constitutes death rock isn’t exactly a career maker. Nor was it, most likely, the point of forming Christian Death. Either way, though, Rozz Williams is often credited with defining a genre that has a foot in goth, straddles punk and winks at metal. So basically, it’s just hard rock.
Forming in 1979 after a few other attempts to start bands, Williams and his cohort, which at the time counted former Adolescents guitarist Rikk Agnew, went in on a single and eventually a full length album, both released by 1982.
