CD: FREUDCD041
RELEASED: 2001
LABEL: Jungle

01. Witnesses
02. Caught On The Thorns
03. Company Of Justice
04. This Side Of Heaven
05. Judgement
06. Chains
07. Celebration
08. Sacrosanct
09. Treason
10. Reward
11. Last Degree
12. Burning Down [Long Version]

* bonustracks

Play Dead were an English postpunk group from Oxford that grew out of the fading English punk scene in 1980. Though the band was identified with groups like UK Decay and Sex Gang Children, the band felt they didn't belong under the "Gothic" title. The band made three studio albums for four different small labels—Fresh Records, Jungle Records, Situation 2, and Clay Records—before forming their own label, "Tanz", for their final album, Company Of Justice. Originally released in 1985, Company of Justice would be Play Dead's final studio album. After a series of signing with multiple flopping independent record labels, Play Dead created their own record label called Tanz in early 1985 just after the end of the From the Promised Land tour. The songs "Last Degree" and "Burning Down (long version)" were not part of the original LP release in 1985. "Burning Down (long version)" is also known as "Burning Down (mezcal mix)."

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The Danse Society, The March Violets, The Sisters Of Mercy, The Cult