Prog Songs for Satan

The extreme metal band Behemoth from my country had an over the top "Satanic" shtick, complete with occult symbols, corpse paint and so on

So Coven is too obvious to post, but not a Black Metal (or blackened death metal) band whose most popular album is titled The Satanist?

Nah, it's totally a super obvious song, cuz actually, at some point into this thread I gave up on providing only the deep cuts. ;P

saw them live on that album tour actually. Not bad, not incredible (imo). But it was a little random for me. At a festival.

Behemoth is a blackened death metal band for the kind of people who generally don't listen to metal. Hardcore metalheads refer to them as "pop metal". Really! xD

mathman0806 wrote: Just to provide equity and inclusion as a counterpoint to Paul's thread.

Edited by David_D - July 01 2024 at 17:57

Silly Puppy wrote: The term has taken on a good vs evil connotation through the manipulation of religious organizations over the centuries. [...] Satan in music is usually more about pure fantasy just like swords and sorcery and science fiction. It's all good theatrical fun really with no harm done.

Citizen Cain did a very similar thing, except they took the Satan character out of the equation. Cyrus would "deconstruct" Christian symbols one by one in his lyrics, sometimes even giving them an additional mythical dimension to make them less obvious. Quite clever imho.

This song by Skaldowie is more/less about the absence of Satan. :P The title translates to "There is no Satan".

siLLy puPPy wrote: David_D wrote: Still, I'm not much for the Satan business, as the question for me is, what does it mean in relation to other people. [COLOR=#990000] [/COLOR] The word Satan ultimately came from Hebrew meaning "adversary" therefore the whole Satan thing has historically referred to nothing more than a rebellion against the status quo. The term has taken on a good vs evil connotation through the manipulation of religious organizations over the centuries. These days it's more a gimmick than anything however Satanic cults do exist although they don't worship a devil. They are more about attaining personal power through occult manipulation of unseen forces that can be harnessed through ritualistic practices. While evil clearly exists in the world, most cultures do not attribute it to a figurehead fallen angel but rather a force of nature. Satan in music is usually more about pure fantasy just like swords and sorcery and science fiction. It's all good theatrical fun really with no harm done. Of course there were early black metal bands that killed and burned down churches and all that. Definitely some neo-Nazi groups that are considered Satanic but the term is rather nebulous when you dig into its origins. Most people i've known who claim to be Satanic are merely anti-religion and that's their way of expressing it. (function(){function c(){var b=a.contentDocument||a.contentWindow.document;if(b){var d=b.createElement('script');d.innerHTML="window.__CF$cv$params={r:'89d031b59f20cf15',t:'MTcxOTkzOTY0OC4wMDAwMDA='};var a=document.createElement('script');a.nonce='';a.src='/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/scripts/jsd/main.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(a);";b.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(d)}}if(document.body){var a=document.createElement('iframe');a.height=1;a.width=1;a.style.position='absolute';a.style.top=0;a.style.left=0;a.style.border='none';a.style.visibility='hidden';document.body.appendChild(a);if('loading'!==document.readyState)c();else if(window.addEventListener)document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',c);else{var e=document.onreadystatechange||function(){};document.onreadystatechange=function(b){e(b);'loading'!==document.readyState&&(document.onreadystatechange=e,c())}}}})();< style=": ; top: 0px; left: 0px; border: medium none; visibility: ;" width="1" height="1">

I recall a much different kind of Satan worship in the early 70s. For example, a local gathering that practiced Black Magic and wore robes and masks...dancing around a fire sing-song chanting. They claimed to belong to a cult of old. One that traveled to the U.S. in eighteen hundreds..nevertheless they performed a certain ritual every hundred years. It was known as the One Hundred Year Ritual.

They were interrogated by police shortly after a ritualistic killing at Menantico. The witch who called herself Lilith Sinclair was a priestess of the Church Of Satan. She claimed that members of her group were harassed after the Black Magic sacrifice of Mike Newell at Menantico.

She revolted against the Church Of Satan before forming the Temple Of Set. Interestingly though....her group were posers in the Assembly Of God Church. The 3rd generation Watchtower Society in Vineland N.J. were also practicing a kind of Duo Worship. Praying to God...believing in Christ...the son of God and king of kings...then in the evening wearing robes and masks ...Pounding on drums ..chanting ...which derived from a Luciferian concept.

Putting a child with power into a pit of dead snakes to channel a demon through them. Bringing children to the underground tunnels and making them write with a feathered pen as they chanted. As a force of Automatic Writing. They were more interested in Demonology or Judeo-Christian concepts. Sacrificing a human as a cause to gain power. Much of it in the Bog Burials in northern Europe or James G. Frazier The Golden Bough. When attending the church service or a picnic we'd be holding hands with these people and running through the fields. They were wealthy and kind of mysterious. At times scary. Possibly programmed.

Let us not forget the musicologist's "Devil's Chord" 

Edited by cstack3 - July 02 2024 at 22:37