Blackhouse – Hope Like a Candle

Blackhouse
Hope Like a Candle
1985 Ladd-Frith
Eureka, California, USA

Sterling Cross
Ivo Cutler

Side 1:

1. Hope Like a Candle
2. #11
3. What Do You Know About Me?
4. Roger Wasn’t…..
5. Let Me Count the Ways
6. Rhythmus

Side 2:

1. Mercy Seat
2. The 2 Classes of People
3. Judgement
4. Sentence
5. Blackhouse
6. Countdown

This is the second Blackhouse release, after 1984’s Pro-Life, but before 1986’s Five Minutes After I Die. Sometimes it is listed as a 1984 release, other places say 1985. The music gets closer to a more traditional industrial sound, with distorted vocals over rhythmic mechanically-driven percussion music. This one appears to add a high-pitched screeching noise on most tracks, along with some other noises that are not percussive in nature, but not really guitar or instrument based as well. Like the other Blackhouse releases, this one has been re-released many times on CD and vinyl through the years, sometimes with bonus tracks.