Galas, Diamanda - Divine Punishment Illuminati With Scary Monsters

With Scary Monsters

Victor DeLorenzo

Every player decides secretly to help

the album is their first to feature a string section and child choirs

Most recently this came via the release of her collaborative album 'In Memory of My Feelings' with Bernard Butler (on Pete Paphides' label 'Needle Mythology')

Galas, Diamanda - Divine Punishment Illuminati With Scary MonstersOn June 30, 1986, the same day that Diamanda Gals's The Divine Punishment was released, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Georgia's so called sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick, criminalizing consensual sex between men. At the time, about 15, 000 people were known to have died of AIDS in the U. S. alone, with little government acknowledgement besides suggestions to quarantine homosexuals on island colonies. By the end of 2021, the number