''What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse'' is a demo album by the American metal band the Black Dahlia Murder, released independently in May 2001. It is the band's only record to feature Sean Gauvreau on bass. Although the Black Dahlia Murder is considered to be a melodic death metal band, the style of the demo has been described as

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. Vocalist Trevor Strnad said in an interview that much of the material on the demo is a blatant "rip-off" of the metalcore band

Prayer for Cleansing Prayer for Cleansing was an American metalcore band from Raleigh, North Carolina. The band is noted for their extreme metal (death/black metal) influence that was a little more prominent in their music than other metalcore bands at the time. Th ...

. Its title is derived from the NES game '' Castlevania II: Simon's Quest'', where it appears in a text box during the in-game transition from day to night. An eponymous song was later recorded for the band's 2007 album ''

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''. The song "The Hive" was later re-recorded for the band's 2002 EP, ''

A Cold-Blooded Epitaph ''A Cold-Blooded Epitaph'' is the first EP by American melodic death metal band The Black Dahlia Murder released in May 2002 on Lovelost Records, it is released as an MCD. This is the band's last release with guitarist John Deering. "The Black ...

'' where it was re-titled "Burning the Hive".

Track listing

Personnel

;The Black Dahlia Murder * John Deering – lead guitar * Brian Eschbach –

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* Cory Grady –

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* Sean Gauvreau – bass guitar * Trevor Strnad – vocals

References

{{Authority control The Black Dahlia Murder (band) albums 2001 albums Demo albums Self-released albums