The Residents - Doctor Dark (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Doctor Dark (alternatively stylized as Dr Dark or Dr. Dark) is an upcoming studio album and "modern theater piece/opera" by The Residents, scheduled for release on CD and vinyl on February 28th 2025 by Cherry Red Records, MVD Audio and New Ralph Too, with two limited vinyl editions also expected from Psychofon Records.

The three-act opera is described as "a journey into the greasy world of euthanasia, drug abuse and an unhealthy obsession with heavy metal", revolving around "a couple of heavy metal kids (Maggot and Mark) and an insomniac Russian physician (Dr. Anastasia Dark)". It was inspired by an unsuccessful 1990 civil action in which heavy metal band Judas Priest were sued by the family of James Vance, a teenager who had attempted suicide by shotgun after listening to the band's music, coupled with the life of Armenian-American pathologist and euthanasia activist Jack Kevorkian.

TRACKLIST

1. The Residents - Prelude / Metal Madness
2. The Residents - White Guys With Guns
3. The Residents - Maggot Remembers
4. The Residents - Tension
5. The Residents - She Was Never Lovelier
6. The Residents - The Gift
7. The Residents - Remembering Mother
8. The Residents - Contemplation
9. The Residents - Survived
10. The Residents - Calm Before
11. The Residents - Circle of Horns
12. The Residents - Unchanged
13. The Residents - The Gift Keeps Giving
14. The Residents - A Choice?
15. The Residents - Ol' Man River
16. The Residents - Take Me to The River



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