We’ve been telling you about the new band SATANIC PLANET for a while here at TrulyDisturbing, and today is the day the group has released its first studio album, entitled DEAD DEITIES. We’ve already been getting a few videos for singles from the album, and along with today’s release, we also got a music video for “SATAN’S SPAWN.” From the looks of it, this whole record is going to be on blast in our offices for some time!
Featuring an impressive lineup of musicians, Satanic Planet brings together Lucien Greaves, co-founder and spokesperson of The Satanic Temple, Luke Henshaw (Planet B, Sonido de la Frontera, First Power Crew, Variations In the Key of the Afterlife), Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Misfits, Mr. Bungle, Dead Cross) and Justin Pearson (The Locust, Swing Kids, Deaf Club).
With Dead Deities, Satanic Planet sounds like a band coming into its own. The 11-track release delivers an aggressive, pitch-black and deeply surly collection of music, with Greaves describing the band’s lyrical direction as more personal and closely aligned with the goals of The Satanic Temple.
Through art, action and activism, The Satanic Temple seeks to encourage benevolence and empathy, reject tyrannical authority, advocate common sense, oppose injustice and undertake noble pursuits. Satanic Planet continues those ideas through music, taking aim at theocracy, apathy and inequality.
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Dead Deities opens with a brooding, doomy soundscape, complete with backwards ritualistic vocals that build like a scene from a barbaric horror film. That atmosphere gives way to “Antichrist,” which begins with a hypnotic, screamy post-hardcore introduction before transforming into a slow, nasty and heavy vision of what pop music might sound like in Hell.
Across its 11 tracks, the album moves through a dark musical landscape filled with tolling bells, blackened synths, diabolical noise interludes, crushing drums and group vocals that sound pulled straight from a nightmare.
Halfway through the record, “Sam Alito’s Mom” takes aim at the Supreme Court justice, referencing his role in helping overturn Roe v. Wade. The track features Greaves and Pearson’s vocals twisting around each other over a slow, growling backdrop of pure musical devastation.
The band’s combined history is hard to ignore. From Slayer and the Locust to Planet B‘s experimental sci-fi hip-hop and Mr. Bungle’s unconventional metal arrangements, these musicians bring decades of touring, experimentation and musical exploration into the project. On Dead Deities, those influences collide to create something dark, abrasive and distinctly its own.
