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 ====== Blackhouse ======
-Industrial
+Industrial\\
+Eureka, California, USA
+Blackhouse is a Christian industrial band based in Eureka, California. Blackhouse plays what has been cited as "primo industrial rock," contrasting with industrial rock styles promulgated by artists such as NIN, [[Klank]], or [[Circle of Dust]]. Blackhouse was formed in 1984 and is cited as the first band to make industrial music for the Christian market.
+Musically acclaimed and sometimes cited as being a founding band of the entire genre, Blackhouse has ensued for over three decades, and the band has produced a myriad of releases in that time. Often the band finds itself riding the fine line between artistic expression and forming a message in a way that could be accepted in the broad Christian community. One album featured a cover showing a bunny crucified, with the thought of exposing the real meaning of Easter.
+The sound that Blackhouse offered was far outside the norms of Christian music at the time of the band's formation, and live performances met with resistance from both the Christian right and Neo-Nazi youth organizations. The Neo-Nazi groups protested the religious content, which was unusual in a genre more known for espousing negative themes including nihilism, pornography, sadomasochism, and drug culture, and the Christians took point with the style that the band offered, again due to its association with negative elements of society. After a time the band went underground, focusing on producing recorded material rather than touring.
+Their music continues to be on the cutting edge of creativity and experimental, avant-garde music. One review of their 2006 collaborative project Beetu Lathri Kwan found that their genre-mixing produced what was deemed an "intentional dissolution of traditional concepts of... music." The music's effect on the reviewers has shown a great variety of responses. One reviewer reported that the sound finds the "border of our conscious and unconscious thinking," while others have insisted that the sound is "barely good for background noise" or "more frustrating than enjoyable." Lyrics are generally noted as being few and far between, but containing positive messages and espousing Christian faith.
 ===== Discography =====
-| 1984 | Pro-Life | Ladd-Frith |
+| 1984 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2020/01/21/blackhouse-pro-life/|Pro-Life]] | Ladd-Frith |
+| 1985 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2020/08/15/blackhouse-hope-like-a-candle/|Hope Like a Candle]] | Ladd-Frith |
+| 1986 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2020/02/01/blackhouse-five-minutes-after-i-die/|Five Minutes After I Die]] | Ladd-Frith |
+| 1987 | Holy War | RRRecords |
+| 1988 | We Will Fight Back! | Staalplaat |
+| 1989 | Stairway to Heaven | Ladd-Frith |
+| 1990 | The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost | Ladd-Frith |
+| 1990 | Material World | Ladd-Frith |
+| 1991 | The Gospel According to the Men in Black (split) | Minus Habens Records |
+| 1991 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2020/08/28/blackhouse-hidden-beneath-the-metal/|Hidden Beneath the Metal]] | Ladd-Frith |
+| 1994 | Stairway to a Gospel Word | Discordia |
+| 1995 | Shock the Nation! | Discordia |
+| 1998 | Shades of Black | Blacklight Records |
+| 1998 | Lawnmowerman | NoWhere Arts |
+| 1999 | Sex Sex Sex | Dark Vinyl Records |
+| 2000 | Dreams Like These | Blacklight Records |
+| 2002 | Heart of Black | Ladd-Frith |
+| 2002 | Vox Ultra | Ladd-Frith |
+| 2005 | Dribbles | Ladd-Frith |
+| 2012 | Beyond the Gates of Good & Evil | Ladd-Frith |
+| 2014 | Rhythm Boxing 2 / Special Edition | Ladd-Frith |
+| 2015 | Yuen | Ultra-Mail Productions |
+| 2016 | Live in Leipzig | Dark Vinyl Records |
+| 2016 | Ignite Blackhouse Youth | No Emb Blanc |
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 ==== Pro-Life ====
-Ladd-Frith
+Ladd-Frith\\
+Le Syndicat\\
+Minus Habens Records\\
+Metal Field ‎/ Ladd-Frith\\
+Steinklang Industries
 Sterling Cross\\
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   - Apparition ....into.... Abolition of Strife
   - Be Good
+== 1997 CD Reissue ==
+  - Anti-Hell
+  - Punk Rock's Come!
+  - March of the Molten Soldiers
+  - I'm the Guy (Version 1.0)
+  - Skull Splitter
+  - Walk on Water
+  - One Thing
+  - Blackhouse
+  - Feed Me
+  - Worldly
+  - Wheels of Steel
+  - Lonesome Love
+Side 1 (track 1-6): No Rhythm\\
+Side 2 (tracks 7-11): Pro-Rhythm\\
+Bonus tracks: Not Available
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+==== Hope Like a Candle ====
+Ladd-Frith\\
+Dark Vinyl Records (DV #12)
+Sterling Cross\\
+Ivo Cutler
+  - Hope Like a Candle
+  - #11
+  - What Do You Know About Me?
+  - Roger Wasn't.....
+  - Let Me Count the Ways
+  - Rhythmus
+  - Mercy Seat
+  - The 2 Classes of People
+  - Judgement
+  - Sentence
+  - Blackhouse
+  - Countdown
+== Hope... ==
+RRRecords (RRR 777)\\
+  - Hope Like a Candle (1:57)
+  - #11 (2:34)
+  - What Do You Know About Me? (1:45)
+  - Roger Wasn't... (5:24)
+  - Let Me Count the Ways (4:23)
+  - Rhythmus (3:19)
+  - Mercy Seat (1:50)
+  - The 2 Classes of People (2:23)
+  - Be Good (5:32)
+  - Pro-Life (2:58)
+  - Long Live Life (3:50)
+  - 30 Seconds to Infinity (0:30)
+"When RRRecords asked me to do an album I said SURE! Why not? RRR wanted an album that was mostly //Hope Like a Candle// with a few cuts from //Pro-Life//. I called it //Hope...//. Nowadays, I never would allow such a thing. After all, I am a purist. To me, each album is an entity to itself... a representation of my moods based within a certain time frame. That's OK.... It's the way I operate, but looking back, the hybrid was viable as well. After all, I did both albums in the year 1984 so they are connected in some strange, magnificent way. Still, I had some fun with it: I wanted the final cut to be a lock groove of the very first recording I made as Blackhouse: The Blackhouse Hum.
+The Blackhouse hum was simply a split stereo recording of the sounds of my apartment's refrigerator in one channel and the sounds of my apartment's gas heater in the other. Simple - eh? Told ya so. But... it's a nice hum. I've used that hum in just about every Blackhouse album and CD I have ever produced. It's a beautiful hum, this Blackhouse Hum. The original LP of //Hope...// used the Blackhouse Hum for the final cut. That cut was called "30 Seconds to Infinity." You see, the track lasted exactly thirty seconds before it hit the lock groove. If you had an automatic turntable, the cut lasted thirty seconds until the needle/arm of the record player hit the lock groove, then it would end as the automatic arm lifted off the groove and the album ended. BUT.... if you had a manual turntable, the track would go for thirty seconds, hit the lock groove.... and then play FOREVER until you removed the turntable arm. Many people could not experience the lock groove because they had an automatic turntable. That's a shame because the lock groove HUM is rather hypnotic after a while."
+------
+==== Five Minutes After I Die ====
+Ladd-Frith\\
+Cause and Effect\\
+Geschmack Records (SC-002)\\
+Dark Vinyl Records (DVLR 1)\\
+Blackhouse Music (BHCD5)
+Ivo Cutler\\
+Sterling Cross
+  - Five Minutes After I Die
+  - His Zion
+  - Halo Hearth
+  - Answer for You
+  - A Thousand Tongues
+  - Numerology
+  - Five Minutes After I Die (Reprise)
+------
+==== Holy War ====
+Ladd-Frith\\
+RRRecords (RRR 017)\\
+Daft Records (D1004)\\
+Klanggalerie (gg154)
+Ivo Cutler\\
+Sterling Cross
+  - Make a Choice (4:31)
+  - The Fight (4:22)
+  - Whispers of Love (3:35)
+  - Satan + His Demons (4:22)
+  - Rhythmus II (3:21)
+  - Remember Who Took the Fall (3:09)
+  - Power + Wisdom (5:34)
+  - Repent (5:24)
+  - Holy War (5:59)
+== 2012 re-issue track order ==
+  - Make a Choice (4:35)
+  - Satan + His Demons (4:24)
+  - Whispers of Love (3:35)
+  - The Fight (5:29)
+  - Rhythmus II (5:40)
+  - Remember Who Took the Fall (3:16)
+  - Power + Wisdom (5:34)
+  - Repent (5:19)
+  - Holy War (6:30)
+"This album wasn't released... it escaped. It's not subtle. It's 200% full on from the get-go. There's absolutely no post-production. No added effects. It's just the 4-track master. Some of the songs even have the multiple tape clicks from when I engaged the recording head on the tape. You hear all those clicks from the original performance.... popping in with feedback and echo. These segments join the tracks together. Essentially, it's a perfect clone of the master. It's exactly what I thought of and did at that time, including the original "correct" order of the songs as they were recorded on the master tape. And it blasts. It's loud. Real loud. So loud, it's disorienting. I have no idea how it got to be so loud. I mean, I knew it would be loud, but.... Maybe it needs to come with some kind of warning sticker about losing your hearing, being disoriented or wreckin' your speakers. You have been warned!"
+------
+==== We Will Fight Back! ====
+Staalplaat (SP 002)\\
+Ladd-Frith\\
+Discordia (DISC 006)\\
+Klanggalerie (gg133)
+Ivo Cutler - Samples, rhythms, vocals, noise\\
+Sterling Cross - Samples, rhythms, vocals, noise
+Mr. Brian Ladd - Guest guitar on "Rock Rock," "Granite Grind," and "Rock 4 God"\\
+Ms. Julie Frith - Guest bass on "Rock 4 God" and guest violin on "From Deep Within the Crust"
+  - Rock Rock (3:14)
+  - Granite Grind (3:53)
+  - Totally Gone (3:20)
+  - Rhythmus III (3:22)
+  - Voices of Angels (2:51)
+  - We Will Fight Back! (4:31)
+  - Rock 4 God (2:49)
+  - More Than You & Me (4:11)
+  - Steamroller (4:20)
+  - W.B. (3:31)
+  - From Deep Within the Crust (7:15)
+== 2009 re-issue song order ==
+  - Rock Rock (3:15)
+  - Granite Grind (3:56)
+  - Totally Gone (3:52)
+  - Rhythmus III (3:22)
+  - Voices of Angels (2:52)
+  - Ground (2:18)
+  - We Will Fight Back! (4:13)
+  - Stairway to Heaven (5:31)
+  - Rock 4 God (3:13)
+  - More Than You & Me (4:20)
+  - Steamroller (4:19)
+  - W.B. (4:00)
+  - Nightmare Vision (6:16)
+  - From Deep Within the Crust (7:21)
+"I recorded the original sessions for WE WILL FIGHT BACK! in 1988. Due to time constraints, some songs had to be dropped from the LP version. Now....21 years later, my original ideas are finally being presented the way they were intended to be heard. I present the NEW version of WE WILL FIGHT BACK!, which is in fact.... the ORIGINAL version of WE WILL FIGHT BACK! I hope you enjoy it."
+------
+==== Stairway to Heaven ====
+Ladd-Frith (LF 61)
+Music by Blackhouse
+  - Nightmare Vision
+  - Ground
+  - Stairway to Heaven (deluxe dub mix)
+  - Heaven's Stairway (bonus reverse edit)
+  - Ground Zero (bonus reverse edit)
+  - Vision (bonus reverse edit)
+Tracks 1-3 listed under "Side 7." Tracks 4-6 listed under "Side 77," and are sometimes listed as one track called "Bonus Reverse Edit."
+------
+==== The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost ====
+Ladd-Frith\\
+Body Records (BR 7010)\\
+Ladd-Frith
+Ivo Cutler\\
+Sterling Cross
+  - Bond (5:14)
+  - Violins on Television (5:56)
+  - Men in Black (8:49)
+  - Golden Ghost (8:09)
+  - Anti-Lavey (8:12)
+  - Procession (3:39)
+  - The Holy Ghost (28:45)
+Tracks 1-3 listed under "The Father," Tracks 4-6 listed under "The Son," and track  listed under "The Holy Ghost."
+------
+==== Material World ====
+Ladd-Frith (LF72)\\
+Steinklang Industries (SK99)
+Ivo Cutler\\
+Sterling Cross
+Brian Ladd - Guitar, programming
+  - Material World (4:20)
+  - Chains of Love (3:32)
+  - Word (4:25)
+  - Double 0 777 (10:26)
+  - Journey to the Son (21:44)
+  - Finale (8:17)
+== 2017 bonus tracks ==
+  - Material World (Live in Leipzig 25.05.2015)
+  - Chains of Love (Live in Leipzig 25.05.2015)
+------
+==== The Gospel According to the Men in Black (split) ===
+Minus Habens Records (MHR 007)
+  - Nightmare Lodge - Ice Skin #1
+  - Nightmare Lodge - Ice Skin #2
+  - Nightmare Lodge - Ice Skin #3
+  - Nightmare Lodge - Ice Skin #4
+  - Blackhouse - The Gospel According to the Men in Black
+------
+==== Hidden Beneath the Metal ====
+Ladd-Frith (LF 77)\\
+Discordia (DISC 067)
+Sterling Cross - Voice, sound module, percussion\\
+Ivo Cutler - Voice, sampler, radio, chair, effects
+Brian Ladd - Untuned guest guitar, mega-mix
+  - Hidden Beneath the Metal A
+  - Hidden Beneath the Metal B
+== 1996 re-issue bonus tracks ==
+  - Blackhouse Hum (3:16)
+  - Long Live Life (3:54)
+  - Dog (3:33)
+  - Anti-Hell (3:18)
+  - One Nation Under God (3:16)
+  - 7 Years (4:10)
+  - 4 x 4 (2:49)
+  - Halo Trance (6:59)
+  - Metal (3:16)
+  - Journey to the Son (5:01)
+Re-mixed "Hidden Beneath The Metal" (original track was released on cassette in 1991) plus obscure & rare tracks from various compilations 1983-1996.
+------
+(to be continued)