Blackhouse Blues began with a stripped down blues-rock version of Hymn of the Satanic Empire. This track featured guitars by Les Hernandez, drums by Nick Green, bass and mixing by Lu Hutchinson and vocals by Reverend Campbell.
Hymn of the Satanic Empire
or
The Battle Hymn of the Apocalypse
Lyrics
Drums out of the darkness, listen well.
Drums beating like thunder straight from Hell.
Trumpets are blaring, the time’s come round –
Satan is here to claim his ground!
Chorus:
There’s an earth that’s green, there’s an earth that’s free,
There’s a place for you and a place for me,
But the bleeding hearts wouldn’t let it be,
We don’t need them anymore!
Let the lions and tigers rip them up.
The arena shouts for Christian blood.
Let them chew them up and spit them out –
We don’t need them anymore!
Once, there was a need for simple minds.
Once, there was a need to save men’s souls.
Fools had to be forced to stay in line,
Preachers and bibles could serve those goals.
Chorus:
With their holy writ and their card’nal sin
They could force their paper demons in –
To a cardboard prison, a paper cell –
They can’t do that any more!
Furies from Hell are diving down!
“Lex Talionis” is their cry!
Even though tricksters make the law,
Justice is served by fang and claw!
Chorus:
With their beaks of steel, see them slash askew
Righteous Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Jew;
They’ve become a plague, so let’s start anew –
We don’t need them any more!
Drums out of the Darkness, listen well.
Drums beating like thunder, straight from hell.
“Rege Satanas” – the time’s come ‘round –
Satan is here to claim His ground!
Final Chorus:
With our morning star from the deepest night
Smash the crumbling cross, for Might is Right.
Let the shuffling zombies grope for light –
And we’ll reign forevermore!
Copyright Anton Szandor LaVey
11/18-19, 1998