Satanic Planet Unveil Doomy New Single & Video “Antichrist”

Satanic Planet have released their new single “Antichrist” off of their upcoming album Dead Deities, which will be released on October 30 via Relapse Record. Through this album, we will see a band coming into its own while offering an aggressive, pitch-black, deeply surly call-to-arms against autocracy in the age of Christian nationalism. The album begins as a brooding, doomy soundscape with backwards ritualistic vocals that churn forward like a barbaric horror flick scene before launching into the aptly named “Antichrist,” with a hypnotic, screamy post-post-post-hardcore intro that melds into a slow, nasty, heavy vision of what pop music might sound like in Hell. In an age of regression and reversed social betterment, this is protest music with bite and bark in lethal, equal doses. They have also released a fifteen-minute-long music video/cult-horror short film for the single, which includes various characters traversing a cluttered forest and gory visuals of ritual-like events taking place in a church. This 11-track stygian brute of an album is a journey through modern dark music with tolling bells, blackened synth, diabolical noise interludes, drums as heavy as a mountain, and group vocals torn straight out of your best-worst nightmares. 

Lucien Greaves (The Satanic Temple co-founder and spokesperson), 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) are now a fully together-in-the-studio band with razor-sharpened focus, creating a sound and lyrical catalog of ideas that Greaves says is both more personal and even closer aligned to the goals of The Satanic Temple, which through art, action, and activism seeks to “encourage benevolence and empathy, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practiced common sense, oppose injustice, and undertake noble pursuits.” According to the band, the Satanic Temple and Satanic Planet are here to empower all those who are needed in the ongoing battle against theocracy, apathy, and inequality.