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Captain Sensible
Captain Sensible
English singer and guitarist
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Rat Scabies
Rat Scabies
English musician
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David Vanian
David Vanian
British singer
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Masters of the Backside
Masters of the Backside
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Algy Ward
Algy Ward
English guitarist
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The Ruts
The Ruts
band
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The Lords of the New Church
The Lords of the New Church
English/American gothic rock supergroup
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Patricia Morrison
Patricia Morrison
female musician
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Sid Vicious
Sid Vicious
English bassist and vocalist
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Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks
British band
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The Misfits
The Misfits
American horror punk band
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Doctors of Madness
Doctors of Madness
band
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Foxy Shazam
Foxy Shazam
American alternative rock band
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The Boys
The Boys
English punk rock band
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Moose Harris
Moose Harris
British guitarist
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Green River
Green River
American rock band
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The Members
The Members
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Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance
Australian-British musical project by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry
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Descendents
Descendents
Punk rock band
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Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock
English musician
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Hanoi Rocks
Hanoi Rocks
Finnish rock band
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The Bags
The Bags
American punk rock band
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Johnny Moped
Johnny Moped
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Tiger Army
Tiger Army
American pyschobilly band
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Young Guns
Young Guns
English alternative rock band from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

The Damned are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1976 by lead vocalist Dave Vanian, guitarist Brian James, bassist (and later guitarist) Captain Sensible, and drummer Rat Scabies. They were the first punk rock band from the United Kingdom to release a single, "New Rose" (1976), release an album, Damned Damned Damned (1977), and tour the United States. They have nine singles that charted on the UK Singles Chart Top 40.

The band briefly broke up after Music for Pleasure (1977), the follow-up to their debut album, was critically dismissed. They quickly reformed without Brian James, and released Machine Gun Etiquette (1979). In the 1980s they released four studio albums, The Black Album (1980), Strawberries (1982), Phantasmagoria (1985), and Anything (1986), which saw the band moving towards a gothic rock style. The latter two albums did not feature Captain Sensible, who had left the band in 1984. In 1988, James and Sensible rejoined to play a series of reunion gigs. One of which was released the next year as the live album Final Damnation. Their fast-driven punk rock has been cited for influencing and shaping the emergence of hardcore punk in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The Damned again reformed for a tour in 1991. In 1995, they released a new album, Not of This Earth, which was Scabies's last with the band. This was followed by Grave Disorder (2001), So, Who's Paranoid? (2008), and their first to crack the United Kingdom's Official Charts' top 10 list, landing at #7, Evil Spirits (2018). Despite going through numerous lineup changes, the formation of Vanian, Sensible, keyboardist Monty Oxymoron, drummer Pinch and bassist Stu West had been together from 2004 until 2017, when West left the band and former bassist Paul Gray rejoined.

As one of the first gothic rock bands, the Damned were a major influence on the goth subculture with lead singer Vanian's vampire-themed costume, baritone singing voice and dark lyrics being major influences.