Church Of Misery
A cult Japanese band ever since their debut in 1998,
Church Of Misery combine raw
St. Vitus -styled
doom with lyrics
devoted to well-known (and not-so-well known) serial killers
(Gacy, Gein, Dahmer, others).
Taste The Pain also
features a nice cover of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida".
For those into the real slow, ultra-heavy stuff
Electric Wizard ,
Sleep , etc),
this is a great band.
Current Members
Kazuhiro Asaeda
vocals
Tatsu Mikami
bass
Toshiaki Umemura
drums (ex-Eternal Elysium )
Former Members/Guests
Nobukazu Chou
vocals
Yoshiaki Negishi
vocals
Hideki Fukasawa
vocals
Scott Carlson
vocals (ex-Cathedral , Repulsion )
Tomohiro Nishimura
guitars
Takenori Hoshi
guitars
Ikuma Kawabe
guitars
Tom Sutton
guitars
Dave Szulkin
guitars (ex-Blood Farmers )
Yukito Okazaki (guest)
guitars (Eternal Elysium )
Hideki Shimizu
drums
Junji Narita
drums
Eric Little
drums (Earthride , ex-Internal Void )
Discography
Studio
Live
Compilation
Video
Taste The Pain
EP
1998
Bad Acid
Room 213 (Jeffery Dahmer)
Taste The Pain (Graham Young)
Plainfield (Ed Gein)
In A Gadda Da Vidda
Nobukazu Chou
Tomohiro Nishimura
Tatsu Mikami
Hideki Shimizu
Born Too Late (split w/ Sheavy)
1998
Game Two
Spahn Ranch (Charles Manson)
Road To Ruin (Charles Whiteman)
Reverend (Jim Jones)
War Is Our Destiny
[Shea] - Destiny's Rainbow '96
[Shea] - Suitcase Blues
[Shea] - Mountains of Madness
[Shea] - Blue Sky Mind
[Shea] - Domelight
[Shea] - War Pigs (Black Sabbath cover)
Nobukazu Chou
Tomohiro Nishimura
Tatsu Mikami
Hideki Shimizu
Murder Company
EP
1999
Man's Ruin
Murder Company (Henry Lee Lucas)
Son Of A Gn (David Berkowitz)
Nobukazu Chou
Tomohiro Nishimura
Tatsu Mikami
Hideki Shimizu
Master Of Brutality
2001
Southern Lord
Killfornia (Ed Kemper)
Ripping Into Pieces (Peter Sutcliffe)
Megalomania (Herbert Mullin)
Green River
Cities On Flame
Master Of Brutality (John Wayne Gacy)
Yoshiaki Negishi
Tomohiro Nishimura
Tatsu Mikami
Junji Narita
Church Of Misery (split w/ Acrimony)
2003
Game Two
[Acri] - Tumuli
[Acri] - Satellite 19
[Acri] - In Other Wor(l)ds
[Acri] - 100 New Gods
[Acri] - Timebomb!!!!
Race With The Devil
Chilly Grave
Cloud Bed
Kingdom Scum
Kazuhiro Asaeda
Tomohiro Nishimura
Tatsu Mikami
Hideki Shimizu
Second Coming
2004
Diwphalanx
Boston Strangler (Albert Desalvo)
El Topo
I, Motherfucker (Ted Bundy)
Candy Man (Dean Corll)
Invocation Of My Demon Brother
I, Motherfucker (Ted Bundy)
Soul Discharge (Mark Essex)
Red Ripper Blues (Andrei Chikatilo)
Filth Bitch Boogie (Aileen Wuornos)
One Way...Or Another (Cactus cover)
Candy Man (Dean Corll)
El Topo
Hideki Fukasawa
Takenori Hoshi
Tatsu Mikami
Junji Narita
Early Works Compilation
COMPILATION
2004
Leaf Hound
Spahn Ranch (Charles Manson)
Road to Ruin (Charles Whitman)
Reverend (Jim Jones)
War Is Our Destiny (Saint Vitus cover)
Room 213 (Jeffery Dahmer)
Taste the Pain (Graham Young)
Plainfield (Ed Gein)
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly cover)
Murder Company (Henry Lee Lucas)
Son of a Gun (David Berkowitz)
Where Evil Dwells (Richard Ramirez)
Sick of Living (Zodiac)
Come Touch the Sky (Trouble cover)
Accident (Black Widow cover)
Chains of Death (Death SS cover)
Retal (Howard Unruh)
Houses Of The Unholy
VIDEO
2006
Diwphalanx
Live In Red - Eurotour 2005
VIDEO
2006
Vol. 1
2007
Leaf Hound
Cloud Bed
Nutz
Kingdom Scum
Frog`s Funeral
Cerebrate Pigs
Chilly Grave
Race With The Devil
Hideki Fukasawa
Ikuma Kawabe
Tom Sutton
Tatsu Mikami
Junji Narita
Denis Nilsen
EP
2008
Born to Raise Hell ( Richard Speck )
Cranley Gardens ( Denis Nilsen )
Hurricane
Hymn of the Satanic Empire ( Studio Recording Jam )
Hideki Fukasawa
Tom Sutton
Tatsu Mikami
Junji Narita
Houses Of The Unholy
2009
Rise Above
El Padrino (Adolfo Constanzo)
Shotgun Boogie (James Oliver Huberty)
The Gray Man (Albert Fish)
Blood Sucking Freaks (Richard Chase)
Master Heartache
Born To Raise Hell (Richard Speck)
Badlands (Charles Stalkweather)
Hideki Fukasawa
Tom Sutton
Tatsu Mikami
Junji Narita
Greetings From Jonestown
EP
2009
Jonestown Massacre (Jim Jones)
Der Hund Von Baskerville
Marmor, Stein Und Eisen Bricht
Yoshiaki Negishi
Tom Sutton
Tatsu Mikami
Junji Narita
Live At Roadburn 2009
LIVE
2010
Roadburn
El Padrino
I, Motherfucker
Shotgun Boogie
Red Ripper Blues
Taste The Pain
Candy Man
Killifornia
For Mad Man Only
Yoshiaki Negishi
Tom Sutton
Tatsu Mikami
Junji Narita
Thy Kingdom Scum
2013
Rise Above
B.T.K. (Dennis Rader)
Lambs to the Slaughter (Ian Brady / Myra Hindley)
Brother Bishop (Gary Heidnik)
Cranley Gardens (Dennis Andrew Nilsen)
One Blind Mice (Quatermass cover)
All Hallow's Eve (John Linley Frazier)
Düsseldorf Monster (Peter Kürten)
Hideki Fukasawa
Ikuma Kawabe
Tatsu Mikami
Junji Narita
And Then There Were None
2016
Rise Above
Scott Carlson
Dave Szulkin
Tatsu Mikami
Eric Little
Born Under A Mad Sign
2023
Rise Above
Beltway Sniper (John Allen Muhammed)
Most Evil (Fritz Harmann)
Freeway Madness Boogie (Randy Kraft)
Murder Castle Blues (H. H. Holmes)
Spoiler
Come and Get Me Sucker (David Koresh)
Butcher Baker (Robret Hansen)
Kazuhiro Asaeda
Yukito Okazaki
Tatsu Mikami
Toshiaki Umemura