Anthrax "Black Lodge (Digipak, USA, Elektra Records, 66277-2) (Single & Video)"

Twin Peaks' score conductor Angelo Badalamenti helped write the song "Black Lodge" on the 1993 Sound of White Noise album by Anthrax. The song was released as the album's third single on August 19, 1993.

The sound of the song differs greatly from the band's earlier thrash metal tracks, with AllMusic's Dave Connolly describing it as "cooled-down".

A music video was created for the song, being directed by past filmmaker Mark Pellington.

The video centers on a man and his wife, with the latter appearing to be a paraplegic. The man bathes, feeds, and dresses his wife, puts her in the backseat of a car and drives down Hollywood Boulevard. The man picks up a woman off of the street, Daphne (played by Jenna Elfman), with his assistant drugging her and taking her to an empty building. The assistant dresses Daphne up to look like the wife then straps her into a chair and places electrodes on her, while the wife sits across from her in a similar chair. The man tries to stimulate Daphne by rubbing her legs and having a puppy lick her face while the wife seems to feel what the woman does. The wife quickly returns to a catatonic state, while the assistant carries Daphne off and takes her picture in front of a backdrop that resembles the Red Room. As the video ends, the camera cuts to a shot of a board with several dozen pictures of other women who went through the same ordeal that Daphne did.

The band members briefly appear in the video, showing up in quick shots in the Red Room.

Track listing

All tracks are written by John Bush, Scott Ian, Frank Bello, Charlie Benante, and Angelo Badalamenti, except where noted

1. "Black Lodge" (Black Strings Mix) 5:21
2. "Black Lodge" (Tremelo Mix) 5:23
3. "Black Lodge" (Mellow to Mad Mix) 5:20
4. "Love Her All I Can" (Kiss cover; featuring Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley) Stanley 2:32
5. "Cowboy Song" (Thin Lizzy cover) Phil Lynott, Brian Downey 5:03

Time:  23:29