Satanic Planet: A Match Made in Hell
SATANIC PLANET is the creation of Lucien Greaves (The Satanic Temple co-founder and spokesperson), Luke Henshaw (Planet B, Sonido de la Frontera), Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Misfits, Mr. Bungle, Dead Cross), and Justin Pearson (The Locust, Dead Cross, Swing Kids, Deaf Club).
With the birth of Satanic Planet, hip-hop producer Henshaw and punk provocateur Pearson joined co-founder and spokesperson of The Satanic Temple, Lucien Greaves– the most prominent and outspoken contemporary Satanist in the world. Greaves has gained international attention as an advocate for religious liberty and the voice of the Satanic Reformation, delivering lectures nationwide and featured in national media outlets including MSNBC, NPR, Huffington Post Live, CNN, Harper’s Monthly, Newsweek, Fox News, Vice, Salon, Rolling Stone, and many more. As the trio were diligently working, and nearly completed with, the music for their debut album, 2020 brought with it a monumental shift, seemingly bringing their momentum to a halt. However, this allowed the newly-formed band to enlist the legendary Dave Lombardo (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Slayer), who found himself not touring for the first time in years, and suddenly having more time to work in his home studio on projects that interested him. With the addition of this iconic drummer, Satanic Planet was complete. The self-titled debut would be released on Three One G Records in 2021.
For Satanic Planet, Greaves moves beyond spoken word and into lyricism, with the experimental musical backing of Henshaw, the demonic vocals of Pearson, and the exploratory approach of Lombardo that fans of Fantomas, for example, know him to be capable of. Where the band’s early work enlisted many collaborators (From Cattle Decapitation’s Travis Ryan to Steve-O of Jackass fame) and embraced a diverse array of influences from doom and industrial to “evil exotica,” 2026’s Dead Deities sharpens its focus and comes into its own, creating cinematic sermons that are more horror score-like in tone. These dark musical soundscapes continue to serve as a vessel for the important messages the band members stand for: religious freedom, highlighting the hypocrisy in dominant organized religions, and the frightening consequences of theocracy that are actively being championed in American society at present.