SATANIC PLANET, Featuring DAVE LOMBARDO, Shares 'Church Burning' Single From Upcoming 'Dead Deities' Album

SATANIC PLANET, which is composed of 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),will release its new album, "Dead Deities", on October 30 via Relapse Records. The official Rodrigo Espinosa-directed music video for the LP's latest single, "Church Burning", can be seen below.

Lucien comments: ""In 2022, a man wearing a t-shirt 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."

On "Dead Deities", 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. Greaves,Henshaw,Lombardo and Pearson 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 record's first single, "Sam Alito's Mom", references the arch-conservative Supreme Court Justice known for his work in helping to overturn Roe v. Wade. The track is an all-out assault with Greaves and Pearson's vocals twisting around each other like cobras at a slow, growling pace of pure sunless devastation. This is music that has come from decades of in-the-trenches touring and experimentation, from SLAYER to THE LOCUST, PLANET B's avant-garde sci-fi hip-hop to MR. BUNGLE's bizarro metal orchestrations.

Greaves comments on the track: "In an effort to preserve reproductive rights in the face of theocratic opposition, The Satanic Temple has opened three abortion clinics and is currently working toward opening a fourth. We named the first of our clinics 'Sam Alito's Mom's Satanic Abortion Clinic', and following the opening of the fourth clinic, we are going to sue to establish our religious freedom to ship abortion pharmaceuticals to any state in the U.S. regardless of their restrictions on bodily autonomy. This is our fight, and this is our song about that fight."

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 listing:

01. Damnatio Memoriae
02. Antichrist
03. Church Burning
04. Dead Deities
05. Sam Alito's Mom
06. Headless Man
07. Dr. Green
08. Cannibal Syndrome
09. Ouroboros
10. Ammosexual
11. Satan's Spawn

Photo by Becky DiGiglio