Southern Death Cult

There's a bit of a tangled history behind this one, so bear with me. Southern Death Cult was a predecessor of 80's "hard rock" combo The Cult, and featured leather-piped front man Ian Astbury; they existed for only a few brief years and released only one seven inch record ("Fatman") and twelve inch EP ("Maya") of the same songs, both of which were also nominally titled "Southern Death Cult." This album, also called "Southern Death Cult," contains demos and unreleased songs culled from Peel Sessions and live shows and such. Musically, they are quite distinct from The Cult - spidery bass lines, post-punk guitar squeaks and stabs, Bauhaus-style wailing, tribal tom tom rhythms inspired by their naive Native American fetish, etc. Interestingly, when the band split and Astbury formed his rock star group, other members went on to projects as diverse and unfortunate as horny new wave wizard-pop Into a Circle and militant Islamist hip-hop outfit Fun-da-Mental.
THE FATMAN AN UNHAPPY MAN
AND ALL HIS FRIENDS ARE FATMEN TOO