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1	British band formed by Douglas Pearce in 1981. Started off as a post-punk/industrial band, but after a few albums, eventually started becoming folkier, lending themselves as the inventors of the genre of music known as 'neofolk' (although bands such as Changes had adopted similar sounds and themes well before DIJ), gloomy, sentimental acoustic music that had emerged from post-punk/post-industrial circles. Pearce has been the main creative force since its inception, though he has collaborated with many different musicians throughout his career, including fellow industrial/neofolk musicians Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus, David Tibet of Current 93, Boyd Rice of NON, John Murphy, formerly of SPK, and Patrick Leagas of Mother Destruction. Lyrical themes involve love, detachment, self-discovery, Douglas' own life, and spirituality, and are full of traditional European symbolism. His influences include Creator/YukioMishima, Creator/JeanGenet, ''Literature/PoeticEdda'', ''Literature/ProseEdda'', Creator/FriedrichNietzsche, and Anglo-Saxon poetry.
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3	!!Death In June provides examples of:
4	* AntiLoveSong - Hollows of Devotion" is one of the overall stranger examples of this in any form of music.
5	* CanonDiscontinuity - On the official website's extensive discography [[note]]a timeline separated by decade listing new released and UpdatedRereleases and information on every single album pressing[[/note]], the albums ''Take Care & Control'' and ''Operation Hummingbird'' aren't listed at all. Lyrics can still be found for every song however.
6	* ComicallyMissingThePoint - Whenever Douglas P. is questioned about political issues he sometimes humorously spins the questions. For example, when questioned if "race matters", his answer vulgarly described the type of men he finds attractive.
7	* CoolMask
8	* DreamTellsYouToWakeUp: The last few bars of "Lifebooks."
9	* GenreShift - Originally a PostPunk band, briefly experimented with dance music, then went to the signature "Neo Folk" sound, which in itself was very electronic until stripping down. There was also a brief period of classical-inspired, march-like, sample-heavy "martial industrial" music in between acoustic folk albums.
10	* IAmTheBand - Douglas Pearce. Tony Wakeford was the main songwriter and vocalist in the early-80s, however.
11	* IronicNurseryTune - several instances
12	* PunnyName:
13	** "Hail the White Grain" refers to the Haglaz rune, a symbol of forces beyond control as represented by... hail, which the Anglo-Saxon version of the Rune Poem describes as "the whitest of grains."
14	** The ''Free Tibet'' remix album features vocals from David Tibet and was released on the Internet at no charge.
15	* {{Sampling}}
16	* ShoutOut - to ''Series/{{The Prisoner\|1967}}'' on the "93 Dead Sunwheels" Mini-CD and Creator/YukioMishima in "The Blood of Winter"
17	* StraightGay - In his youth, Douglas struggled with his sexuality due to the fact that he doesn't act or look much like a CampGay, which was all he knew of homosexuality when he was young. He's so low-key about it that people often don't recognize that his music has more to do with sexuality than with politics, a fact which disappoints him.
18	* SwissBankAccount: Discussed on "Gorilla Tactics," about a cancelled show in Lausanne, Switzerland:
19	-->Their banks are filled witn Nazi gold\
20	But Death In June's banned, I've been told
21	* TakeThat: "The Humble Brag," in particular points its barbs towards critics who accused the band of neo-naziism.
22	** The album ''All Pigs Must Die'' was an entire record of songs about how Death In June's record label World Serpent Distribution failed to pay him royalties.
23	* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning - Covered "Ku Ku Ku", "Black Baby"/"Little Black Angel", and "He's Able"/"He's Disabled", all songs by Jim Jones and the Peoples' Temple Choir on ''But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter?''
24	* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth
25	* TropeCodifier: Along with ''Current 93'' and ''Sol Invictus'' for neofolk, but not TropeNamers, as its unknown who exactly came up with the term. The aforementioned group Changes are an UrExample along with British folk bands like the Strawbs, Fairport Convention, The Pentangle, etc.
26	* UpdatedRerelease - almost every album has several different versions. Variances can be in artwork, format, track listing, etc.

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