Label: Sealed

Reissued 2023, Originally released 1988

LP version. Reissue, originally released in 1988. Cacophony is the second Rudimentary Peni album. Released after the band returned from their first hiatus following a series of personal events that changed the band forever. The thirty-track LP keeps turning heads 34 years after its release. Far from writing another Death Church, the band embarked on a truly bizarre quest -- to record an album based on the life and writings of horror's absolute king H.P. Lovecraft. A dense cacophony of total free songwriting. Dark, gothic, intricate, unexpected head-scratching punk. The short bursts of music twist and turn at every corner -- the vocals are part classic Blinko and part spoken word, the guitar is full of distorted awkward tones and the very inventive bass and drums are locked together creating a truly unique album. Cacophony is the benchmark of outsider punk and the influence and cult nature of this album grows with every passing year. This reissue stays close to the original version, with Nick Blinko's incredible cover art, including a 11" x 11" eight-page lyric booklet.

Track listing:

1. Nightgaunts
   
2. The Horrors In The Museum
   
3. The Only Child
   
4. Architectonic And Dominant
   
5. The Evil Clergyman
   
6. Brown Jenkin
   
7. Crazed Couplet
   
8. Sarcophagus
   
9. Lovecraft Baby
   
10. Dream City
    
11. C12 H22 O11
    
12. Zenophobia
    
13. Sunset For The Lords Of Venus
    
14. Beyond The Tanarian Hills
    
15. Imps Of The Perverse
    
16. The Dead Loved
    
17. Periwig Power
    
18. Kappa Alpha Tau
    
19. American Anglophile In The World Turned Upside-Down
    
20. Memento Mori
    
21. Better Not Born
    
22. Arkham Hearse
    
23. The Old Man Is Not So Terribly Misanthropic
    
24. Gentlemen Prefer Blood
    
25. Sonia
    
26. The Day The Universe Ceased (March 15th 1937)
    
27. The Crime Of The Century
    
28. Musick In Diabola
    
29. Shard
    
30. Black On Gold