Devil Doll - The Girl Who Was... Death

Devil Doll is an Italian-Slovenian experimental rock band formed in 1987 by the mysterious "Mr. Doctor". The band has gained a cult following, taking influences from gothic rock, classical and slavonic folk music, and fronted by the sprechgesang of Mr. Doctor himself. Devil Doll albums were all released on small labels in limited quantities. The band is notable for very lengthy epics, none under 20 minutes and one that nearly enters the 80 minute mark.


"The Girl Who Was...Death was the first long-player to be distributed, because our debut album, The Mark Of The Beast, had been thought as a sort of "aural painting", hence it was pressed in one single copy, to which I made myself the hand-painted artwork. One of the most memorable parts from The Girl Who Was...Death (introduced by an arpeggio of guitar followed by the lines "Who Are You Looking For...What Are You Looking At..." and by a breathtaking violin solo) was in fact transposed from The Mark Of The Beast: the lyrics are different, but the music was basically the same, although instrumental and vocal parts were reversed, in the sense that the instrumental parts of The Girl Who Was...Death were sung on The Mark Of The Beast and vice-versa."

"Recorded first-take-live-in-the-studio, The Girl Who Was...Death is Rockier and more immediate than any other Devil Doll album. Patrick McGoohan's esoteric TV series The Prisoner was its loose inspiration. The Prisoner was McGoohan's personal obsession as Devil Doll was mine: ONE man was in full control of the whole project, creating the concept, being the main actor, the screenwriter of the chief episodes, the director of some of them, the executive producer, the one who had even whistled the theme music to the series (later arranged by Ron Grainer) and the only person who knew what the whole thing was about, as the series, which had started as a bizarre spy-story, progressively metamorphosed into the realm of a nightmarish allegory on Man, at the same time Prisoner and Captor of Himself."

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Music

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• devil doll
• rock
• avantgarde
• metal
• the prisoner
• filme
• movie
• gothic
• dark rock
• teatrical rock
• art rock
• theater
• mr doctor
• the
• girl
• who
• was...
• death

[Katisome5]

2 mins from the end are missing...

[Storydor]

@Katisome5 shit... I didn't notice it. probably some Windows Movie Maker errror...

You're referring to the The Prisoner excpt, right?

[TheHuggles09]

this shit is amazing!!! it's a shame he isn't releasing any more material...

[progresman]

if u love DD u must give this a go: Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning. not as fucked up as DD, but close, so fucking close.

and we love fucked up artists, dont we?

[WatiTheChef]

An hour long o_o

[Genojo]

que orgulloso me siento de tener estos gustos musicales...

im so proud of my musical tastes...

[EUCP1]

Definitivamente Devil doll es lo mejor que he escuchado en mi vida.

[F02SH666]

@Storydor

don't mind it's not an error and those two mins. in the end has never been exist ;)

[Hummy100]

This is Devil Doll's best album imo. Really special musical journey

[DarkDioniso]

A huevo, por fin la canción completa en un sólo vídeo, Esto es una joya.

[jactmetal91]

eterna y hermosa cancion por la conchesumare :')

[Katisome5]

@Storydor Yeap. Thank you very much for  uploading, though! :)