Aurelio Voltaire’s debut ‘The Devil’s Bris’ returns to CD in a limited Projekt edition
Projekt reissues Aurelio Voltaire’s 1998 debut “The Devil’s Bris” on CD on September 11, 2026, in a 4-panel digipak limited to 300 copies.
Projekt returns Aurelio Voltaire‘s 1998 debut “The Devil’s Bris” to print on September 11, 2026. The gothic and dark cabaret album comes back as a CD in a 4-panel digipak, in an edition of 300, and is the first pressing in three years. It uses the 2020 remaster, taken from the original mixdown DAT.
The twelve-track album carries “When You’re Evil” and “Ex Lover’s Lover”, the two Voltaire songs that have held the longest club life. Projekt describes the record as “this strange brew of gypsy violins, driving rhythms, sardonic wit and turn-of-the-century mayhem.”
What ‘The Devil’s Bris’ contains
The running order is “Ex Lover’s Lover”, “Anniversary”, “Parade”, “The Man Upstairs”, “They Know Me”, “Oweee”, “Snakes”, “Ravens Land”, “The Chosen”, “All The Way Down”, “When You’re Evil” and “Shalom”, closing on a reading of the Klezmer standard. The arrangements lean on violin, cello and acoustic guitar rather than synthesizers, set against lyrics about love, loss, revenge and dismemberment.
The 2020 remaster has already appeared on CD in a run of 500 in March 2021 and on vinyl in two pressings, the first limited to 500 on orange and black swirled vinyl and the second to 300 on orange with red marble. Both have since sold out, and the album has been streaming only in the interim. The September 2026 CD is available through Projekt and Bandcamp.
About Aurelio Voltaire
Aurelio Voltaire is a New York-based singer and songwriter who also works as an animator, comic book creator and toy designer. He emerged from the New York goth scene of the 1990s and signed to Projekt, the label founded by Sam Rosenthal, which released “The Devil’s Bris” as his debut in 1998 in a jewel case, followed by a 2011 deluxe digipak edition with an eight-page lyric booklet and signed art card.
He has recorded and toured for close to three decades across twelve full-length studio albums, among them “Almost Human” and “Heart-Shaped Wound”, both also on Projekt. His songs “Brains!” and “Land of the Dead” were written for the Cartoon Network series “The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy”, and his live sets mix murder ballads with science-fiction comedy songs aimed at convention audiences. The September 11, 2026 CD marks the first time “The Devil’s Bris” has been available as a new physical pressing since 2023.
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