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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 | 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\\
+RRRecords (RRR 777)\\
+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
+------
+==== 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)
+------
+(to be continued)