What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse

2001 demo album by the Black Dahlia Murder

Demo album by

the Black Dahlia Murder

Released

May 2001

Recorded

2001

Genre

Metalcore^[1]

Length

21:59

Label

Self-released

The Black Dahlia Murder chronology

What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
(2001)

A Cold-Blooded Epitaph
(2002)

What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse is the first demo album by American melodic death 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 metalcore.^[1] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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 Nocturnal. The song "The Hive" was later re-recorded for the band's 2002 EP, A Cold-Blooded Epitaph where it was re-titled "Burning the Hive".

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"All My Best Friends Are Bullets"	1:03
2.	"To You, Contortionist"	3:51
3.	"The Middle Goes Down"	4:25
4.	"This Ain't No Fuckin' Love Song"	3:44
5.	"(And the Chorus Sang) A Dead Refrain"	4:56
6.	"The Hive"	4:00
Total length:		21:59