Blood in the River

Blood in the River

Zeal & Ardor

A fairly simple text, but the Call&Response-style of the vocals make it much more impressive than the lyrics might make it seem at first sight.

The lyrics of the whole album are based on the idea of what would have been if the African slaves in America would not have simply adopted the Christian faith, but, as a resistance against this religion of their enslavers, instead would have come up with a form of reverse Christianity (which rarely might actually have happened in some sense in parts of South America).

While mere reverse Christianity is far from contemporary Satanism, some parts of these lyrics seem to allude to elements of that religion nevertheless, or could at least be interpreted to do so, for example the equating of Satan with Prometheus.