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Other uses Blackhouse is a Christian alternative rock|Christian Industrial music|industrial band. Blackhouse plays what has been cited as "primo industrial rock", contrasting with Post-industrial music|post-industrial styles promulgated by artists such as Nine Inch Nails|NIN , Klank , or Circle of Dust .cite journal |title=Hard News |pages=25 |year=2000 |month=November / December |journal= HM Magazine |issn=1066-6923 |issue=86 Blackhouse was formed in 1984 and is cited as the first band to make industrial music for the Christian market.
Background
Musically acclaimed and sometimes cited as being a founding band of the entire genre. Their career had ensued over three decades, and the band has produced a myriad of releases in that time. Often Blackhouse 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 .cite book |last=Powell |first=Mark Allan |title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music |year=2002 |publisher=Hendrickson Publishers |location= Peabody, Massachusetts|Peabody , Massachusetts |isbn=1-56563-679-1 |edition=First printing |chapter=Blackhouse |pages=87–88
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.cite journal |last=Rake |first=Jamie Lee |title=Interview with Blackhouse |year=1986 |month=Winter |pages=1–2 |journal=Vortexx
Their music continues to be on the cutting edge of creativity and experimental music|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.
1988: We Will Fight Back! (Also 2009 reissue, Review: Cornerstonecite journal |title=78RPM / We Will Fight Back |page=35 |volume=18 |issue=90 |journal= Cornerstone (magazine)|Cornerstone |issn=0275-2743 )
1989: Stairway to Heaven
1990: The Gospel According to the Men in Black
1991: Material World
1991: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost
1991: Hidden Beneath the Metal
1994: Stairway to the Gospel World
1995: Shock the Nation
1997: Reason for the Season
1998: Shades of Black (Reviews: Phantom Tollbooth,cite web |last=Spencer |first=Josh |url= http://www.tollbooth.org/mini/bhouse.html |title=Blackhouse / Shades of Black |year=1998 |publisher=The Phantom Tollbooth Cross Rhythms cite journal |last=Lobaugh |first=Rod |title=Blackhouse Shades Of Black |journal= Cross Rhythms |month=June |year=1998 |issue=45 |pages= |accessdate=2009-07-16 |url= http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/Blackhouse/Shades_Of_Black/11696/)
1998: Lawnmower Man
1999: Sex, Sex, Sex
1999: Y2K
2000: Dreams Like These (Reviews: Phantom Tollbooth,cite web |last=Lewis |first=Chelsea |url= http://www.tollbooth.org/2000/reviews/blackhouse.html |title=Blackhouse / Dreams Like These |date=2000-11-07 |publisher=The Phantom Tollbooth Cross Rhythms cite journal |last=Stafford |first=James |title=Blackhouse Dreams Like These |journal= Cross Rhythms |month=Feb |year=2001 |issue=61 |pages= |accessdate=2009-07-16 |url= http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/Blackhouse/Dreams_Like_These/1390/)
2006: Beetu Lathri Kwan (Collaboration with Pacific 231, Review: Cross Rhythms cite web |last=Morris |first=James Richard |title=Blackhouse Beetu Lathri Kwan |publisher= Cross Rhythms |date=2007-01-17 |accessdate=2009-07-16 |url= http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/B2la3ck1/Beetu_Lathri_Kwan/21134/)
2009: We Will Fight Back!
2010: 25th Years Anniversary + Hope...
2011: ''Comin' On Strong (Collaboration with Hypnoskull)
2012: Thirty In 30
Members
Brian Ladd is the sole permanent member of Blackhouse. Early releases were credited to Ivo Cutler and Sterling Cross. Ladd has explained this was because "I always thought of Blackhouse as being SUPERMAN and I was merely a Clark Kent" http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=blog.view& friendId=409060370& blogId=441939626 Blog entry by Brian Ladd on Blackhouse's official MySpace
References
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External links
http://www.sonic.net/~lfmusic/blackhouse/ Official site
http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/artists/Blackhouse/8335/ Cross Rhythms artist Profile
http://www.sonic.net/~lfmusic/LADD-FRITH.html LADD-FRITH Music
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