Burn, Baby, Burn!

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Burn, Baby, Burn!
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 25, 1993
Genre
Length53:36
Label Cleopatra
Producer Brian Daly
The Electric Hellfire Club chronology
Burn, Baby, Burn!
(1993)
Satan's Little Helpers
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Burn, Baby, Burn! is the debut album by American industrial rock band The Electric Hellfire Club. Released on October 25, 1993, by Cleopatra Records, following Thomas Thorn's departure from My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, the album's lyrical theme ranges from satanism, drugs, sex, psychedelia to Ricky Kasso, the Son of Sam, and Charles Manson.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Invocation / Age of Fire" - 07:50
  2. "Psychedelic Sacrifice" - 05:33
  3. "Fall From Grace" - 07:06
  4. "Prodigal Son (A Libertine's Lament)" - 05:20
  5. "Mr. 44" - 04:36
  6. "Where Violence Is Golden..." - 06:09
  7. "The Electric Hellfire Acid Test" - 05:38
  8. "Epitaph" - 06:02
  9. "Black Bus" - 05:22

Personnel

Notes

The album's cover artwork was inspired by the church burnings in Norway during the early 90s.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. Anderson, Jason. Burn, Baby, Burn! at AllMusic. Retrieved April 1, 2021.