Satanic Planet share ‘Church Burning’ music video

On Dead Deities, Satanic Planet’s new album for Relapse Records, we 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. 

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.”

The Satanic Temple and Satanic Planet are here to empower all those who are needed in the ongoing battle against theocracy, apathy, and inequality.

Dead Deities 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.  

The album’s new single “Church Burning” references a 2022 incident where “…a man wearing a tshirt with ‘GOD’ printed across the chest set fire to The Satanic Temple headquarters, a legally recognized church, in Salem. This is a song about the hypocrisy of religious violence and how our opposition destroy their own ethical credibility every time they have attacked us with arson, bombs, and violent assaults. We will always rebuild. It is their own church they burn,” comments Lucien Greaves.

In an age of regression, reversed social betterment, and the label “terrorist” slapped on anyone brave enough to oppose the men in power, this is protest music with bite and bark in lethal, equal doses. If the goal is us taking care of each in dangerous times, Satanic Planet has your back (while holding the gore-dripping, ripped-out spinal column of your enemy up to the blood-red sun). Satanic Planet’s Dead Deities is flag-burning, cross-toppling annihilation, all in the service of shaping a better, kinder, more livable world.

Dead Deities track list:

1. Damnatio Memoriae
2. Antichrist
3. Church Burning
4. Dead Deities
5. Sam Alito’s Mom
6. Headless Man
7. Dr. Green
8. Cannibal Syndrome
9. Ouroboros
10. Ammosexual
11. Satan’s Spawn

Pre-order Dead Deities ahead of its October 30 street date here.