What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse

What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
Demo album by The Black Dahlia Murder
Released May 2001
Recorded 2001
Genre Melodic death metal
Metalcore
Length 21:59
Label Self-released
The Black Dahlia Murder chronology

What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
(2001)
A Cold-Blooded Epitaph
(2002)

What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse is a demo album by the American heavy metal band, The Black Dahlia Murder. It is the only release to feature bassist Sean Gauvreau who was replaced by David Lock. It was released independently in May 2001. Although the band is known to be melodic death metal, this demo is considered to have elements of metalcore.[1]

The title of the album is derived from the NES game Castlevania II: Simon's Quest; during the in-game transition from day to night, the quoted line would appear in a text box.

Despite the name of the demo, the song "What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse" is not included on this release. The song wasn't recorded until the band's 2007 album Nocturnal. The song "Burning the Hive", featured on this demo, was re-recorded for the band's 2002 EP, A Cold-Blooded Epitaph.

Track listing

  1. "All My Best Friends Are Bullets" – 1:03
  2. "To You, Contortionist" – 3:51
  3. "The Middle Goes Down" – 4:25
  4. "This Ain't No Fuckin' Love Song" – 3:44
  5. "(And the Chorus Sang) A Dead Refrain" – 4:56
  6. "Burning the Hive" – 4:00

Personnel

The Black Dahlia Murder

References

  1. "The Black Dahlia Murder Bassist on New CD: 'it's Just As Brutal As Anything We've Done Before'". Way Too Loud. August 6, 2007.