Crippled Lucifer

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Crippled Lucifer is an album by Burning Witch. Its complete title is Crippled Lucifer (Seven Psalms For Our Lord Of Light) but it is rarely referred to as such.

It consists of three tracks taken from their Rift.Canyon.Dreams release (Warning Signs, Stillborn and History of Hell) and four tracks from their Towers... release (Sacred Predictions, Country Doctor, Tower Place and Sea Hag).

It was first released on CD in 1998 on Southern Lord Records and Bad Acid Records. Bad Acid released the European digipack version of which only 2000 were made. Southern Lord handled the American release of which there were effectively three presses. The first pressing's cover was incorrectly printed so it was repressed. Then, it was pressed for a third time, this time with a different cover all together. In 1999, it was released on cassette by Mystic Productions.

In 2008, Southern Lord reissued the album as a double-disc set, restoring the one missing track from Rift.Canyon.Dreams and two tracks from splits that also got excluded from the single-disc version, as well as the original track order. This re-issue was renamed Crippled Lucifer(Ten Songs for Our Lord of Light) due to the extra tracks.

Track listing (original version)

1. "Warning Signs" – 8:22
2. "Stillborn" – 11:57
3. "History of Hell" – 6:03
4. "Sacred Predictions" – 7:05
5. "Country Doctor" – 10:20
6. "Tower Place" – 5:25
7. "Sea Hag" – 14:18

Track listing (2008 reissue)

Disc One

1. "Sacred Predictions" – 7:03
2. "Country Doctor" – 10:19
3. "Tower Place" – 5:24
4. "Sea Hag" – 14:20
5. "The Bleeder" – 9:57

Disc Two

1. "Warning Signs" – 8:22
2. "Stillborn" – 11:57
3. "History of Hell (Crippled Lucifer)" – 6:02
4. "Communion" – 9:25
5. "Rift.Canyon.Dreams" – 13:08

In this issue, disc one, tracks 1-4 are the Towers EP, disc one, track five is from the split with Goatsnake, disc two, tracks one through four are the Rift.Canyon.Dreams EP, and disc two, track five is from the split with Asva. Also, for the limited edition mailorder version(which is 2000 numbered copies), there is a dropcard which allows you to download a rare live show (with an unreleased song "Jubilex") as well as the unreleased demo.