Satanic rock - Religious music for edgelords

[Damien Thorne]

This thread is for the discussion of Satanic rock music in all of its glorious forms. I will start by posting the granddaddy of all Satanic rock music, Coven.

I love how the hippy musical chords go so very well with the Satanic lyrics here.

I see this all as a form of very entertaining theatrical LARPing, not unlike gangsta rap in that respect.

 

[Tim Buckley]

Satanic rock with emphasis in "SATAN" is autistic LARPING but some bands like Ghost make cool shit with it as a blatant, over the top show.

The origin of satanic metal which is the most popular type of this shit comes from nordic bands inspired by 70/80s glam like Venom, the actual genre "Black Metal" is not necessarily satanic (all of this "satanic bands" are actually pagan) but more like atmospheric "feels" music which is actually fucking great and underrated, here's a random glorious example:

 

[Ted_Breakfast]

This is the most 90's thread on the site and I am charmed.

 

[MrTroll]

 

[Circular Tyrant]

Gotta have some Mercyful Fate.

"Now suck the blood from this unholy knife
Say after me: My soul belongs to Satan"

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

One of Coven's contemporaries.

 

[Mr. A. L. Mao]

Timely post, been listening to a lot of occult rock recently

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

They're beyond cringe, but Venom is one of the godfathers of edgelord satanic rock.

 

[Dutch Courage]

Coven were the first rock band to give the devil's horn salute, years before Ronnie James Dio ever gave it. Dio is usually credited with inventing that move, but Coven was a decade ahead of him. I find their first album pretty likable, although at times they sound like an evil Jefferson Airplane.

Any self-respecting thread of Satanic music (a real Satanist would tell you all music is Satanic) has to include what is probably the first Satan-themed album ever, to wit Satan is Real by the Louvin Brothers, which was released in the prehistoric times of 1959. It is arguably one of the first concept albums in the modern sense, as well:

Obviously, this good-natured country duo really don't have much to do with the darker, heavier Satanic-themed music of the late 1960's/early 1970's (much less what came after), but you can't really leave Satan is Real out of the pantheon.

 

[Allegory]

This bitch is in deep

 

[Syaoran Li]

This bitch is in deep
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TIL Jack Chick faked his death in 2016 and is now posting on Kiwi Farms

 

[Calandrino]

Timely post, been listening to a lot of occult rock recently

Kind of interesting/amusing that this stuff is more on-the-nose and possibly more popular than anything similar that actually existed during the 1970s, kinda like how synthwave is more 80s than 80s music, or psychobilly bands making 50s-style music about old sci fi etc. I think the easy availability of 70s horror movies and the Manson family legend accounts for it as much as any musical influence. I'm trying to picture what future 200X/201X throwbacks might sound like, and mercifully coming up blank.

Here's a couple of LaVeyan Satanists. (If you LARP as a LaVeyan Satanist, are you LARPing as a LARPer?)

And then we have this from the man himself... not really rock:

EDIT: I managed to skim over Mercyful Fate already being posted, but no regrets...

 

[Captain Hastings Official]

One of Coven's contemporaries.

One of my favorite tracks by them:

It immediately brings to mind lurid technicolor flashes of scenes from Hammer Films flicks.