{"product_id":"diamanda-galas-you-must-be-certain-of-the-devil","title":"Diamanda Galás - You Must Be Certain of the Devil","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiamanda Galás closes her Masque of the Red Death trilogy with You Must Be Certain of the Devil, a 1988 record that turns gospel and blues into weapons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe trilogy was Galás's furious response to the AIDS epidemic and the cruelty that surrounded it, and this final instalment is its most song-based chapter. Recorded at Hansa in Berlin and co-produced with Gareth Jones for Mute, it finds her handling vocals, Hammond organ, piano, synthesizers and keyboard bass, with drummer Charlie Terstappen adding a steady, ominous pulse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe material draws on American spirituals and blues forms, then pushes them somewhere far darker. \"Swing Low Sweet Chariot\" opens the album, the old spiritual recast as a lament for the dying, and \"Let My People Go\" turns a cry for freedom toward the crisis unfolding around her. \"Double-Barrel Prayer\" and the title track show off the extraordinary range of her voice, shifting from low, preacher-like growls to piercing shrieks, all of it controlled with frightening precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt barely over half an hour, it is concentrated and unforgiving, a work of protest as much as music. It remains one of the most powerful statements from a singer who has never softened her message for anyone, and it demands to be heard in full.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57352632762673,"sku":"881626812617","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/Diamanda_Galas-You_Must_Be_Certain_of_the_Devil.jpg?v=1793990064","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/diamanda-galas-you-must-be-certain-of-the-devil","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}