[2] Blackhouse was formed in 1984 and is cited as the first band to make industrial music for the Christian market.

Often the band finds itself riding the fine line between artistic expression and forming a message in a way that could be accepted in the broad Christian community.

One album featured a cover showing a rabbit crucified, with the thought of exposing the real meaning of Easter.

[3] The Neo-Nazi groups protested the religious content, which was unusual in a genre more known for espousing negative themes including nihilism, pornography, sadomasochism, and drug culture, and the Christians took point with the style that the band offered, again due to its association with negative elements of society.

One review of their 2006 collaborative project Beetu Lathri Kwan found that their genre-mixing produced what was deemed an "intentional dissolution of traditional concepts of...