Virgin Prunes- Hérésie (Expanded Edition)

Label: BMG

Reissued 5/8/2026, Originally released 1982

Seminal early-'80s release from Dublin's most uncompromising post-punk collective, Hérésie captures Virgin Prunes at their most raw, ritualistic, and confrontational. Originally released in 1982, the album compiles crucial early recordings that blur the boundaries between post-punk, industrial music, performance art, and gothic experimentation. Abrasive rhythms, atonal textures, and emotionally charged vocals define a sound that helped shape the darker, more extreme fringes of the post-punk movement. This newly expanded CD edition restores the original album in remastered form and includes a rare live recording from the Rex Club in Paris, capturing the band's intense and confrontational performance style. Housed with a 16-page booklet and featuring brand new sleeve notes by Jon Wood, this edition makes a vital and long hard-to-find title accessible once again in definitive form. Essential listening for fans of Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire and adventurous post-punk archives.

Track listing:

1. Go Away Deirdre
   
2. Rhetoric
   
3. Down the Memory Lane
   
4. Man on the Corner
   
5. Nissam Lo
   
6. Loved One
   
7. Go 'T' Away Deirdre
   
8. Caucasian Walk [Live]
   
9. Walls of Jericho [Live]
   
10. Pagan Lovesong [Live]
    
11. Theme for Thought [Live]
    
12. Come to Daddy [Live]