If you have been hanging around TrulyDisturbing for any length of time, you already know we are not just about horror movies and creepy stories. We feature many other aspects, throw some music, collectibles, comic books and other wonderfully strange stuff into the mix, especially when it fits the dark little corner of the world we call home and you have what we do best, bring the spooky.
That brings us to Satanic Planet, a band that probably was not going to be the soundtrack your parents had playing during Sunday dinner. This stuff is dark, abrasive and unapologetically weird, which is exactly why we dig it.
Satanic Planet features Lucien Greaves, co founder and spokesperson for The Satanic Temple, alongside Luke Henshaw, Dave Lombardo and Justin Pearson. If those names alone do not give you an idea of what you are about to hear, the band’s new album Dead Deities should clear things up pretty quickly.
Set for release October 30 through Relapse Records, the album pushes further into the band’s unsettling combination of heavy percussion, ominous electronics, distorted textures and vocals that sound like they crawled out of some particularly unpleasant corner of the underworld.
The new single, “Church Burning,” gives us a pretty good taste of what Satanic Planet is bringing to the table. The track is built around a bleak, aggressive sound that never seems interested in letting up, while the accompanying music video gives the whole thing an appropriately disturbing visual edge.
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “CHURCH BURNING” BELOW
The song takes inspiration from a 2022 arson attack at The Satanic Temple’s headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts. Greaves described the track as a response to religiously motivated violence and the band’s experiences with attacks against the organization.
Musically, though, “Church Burning” is where Satanic Planet really gets its claws into you. There is a nasty industrial pulse underneath the track, the percussion hits with serious weight, and the vocals add another layer of menace without turning the whole thing into theatrical shock rock. It feels cold, deliberate and genuinely uncomfortable in the best possible way.
This is not background music designed to politely sit behind whatever else you are doing. Satanic Planet wants to occupy the room. The bells, synths, pounding drums and strange vocal textures create something that feels closer to a horror soundtrack having a very bad night than a conventional rock record.
If you like your music dark, heavy and a little unsettling, Satanic Planet deserves a spin. Dead Deities arrives October 30 through Relapse Records, and “Church Burning” is available now.
