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Is Astrology Occult or Entertainment?

HOROSCOPES: TO READ OR NOT TO READ

By Marcia Montenegro, former professional licensed astrologer who practiced astrology for over 8 years; former President of the Metropolitan Astrological Society, former Chairperson of the Atlanta Board of Astrology Examiners; former teacher of astrology for over 5 years

[This article first appeared in "Christian Events Journal," August/September 1994, and has been slightly modified for this site.]

Have you ever glanced over at the horoscope column in a newspaper or magazine just for "fun" or out of curiosity? Do you even deliberately look for it each day? As you do so, maybe you say things like, "I don't take this seriously," "it's just like reading the funnies," "I know a lot of people who do this," or perhaps "I don't really believe in astrology so it's okay." Or maybe you are really looking for guidance.
The word "horoscope," which comes from the Greek and means, "watcher of the hour," was first coined in an ancient, declining Greece that began to tolerate astrology after long resisting it. Horoscopes, as innocuous as they may appear, are not just products of the imagination. The authors of these columns are usually astrologers; some are psychics. Astrologers have purposely studied what they believe to be the meanings of the planets, the zodiac signs, and other astrological data. Along with this information, they consider the present positions of planets (and the sun and moon), and how they interact with the sun signs of Aries, Taurus, Gemini, etc., in order to give horoscope advice. Since the moon changes signs every 2.5 days, its position is a key element in the forecasting.
Astrological philosophy is based on the occult worldview that asserts "as above, so below." According to this view, everything in the universe is one and is connected; therefore, the patterns of the planets reflect our lives on earth. As a former astrologer, I can tell you that although many astrologers scorn horoscope columns as "pop" astrology of little value, the astrological worldview is essential even to the writing of a horoscope. When you read such a column, you are in a subtle way either accepting that worldview or assigning some kind of value to it.
The belief that the patterns and movements of the planets, sun and moon reflect our lives is contradictory to the view of a living, omniscient God who created the heavenly bodies to reflect and proclaim His glory, not ours. Astrology also is often intertwined with the teaching that since we are all connected to the universe by a force or energy (which is sometimes considered to be divine or to be God), then everything in the universe is one and therefore, there is no true distinction between man and nature; this is called monism (all is one and one is all). Identifying God as one with the universe is pantheism (God is all, all is God) or is sometimes panentheism (God is contained within the universe), and is totally at odds with the belief in a Creator who created the world out of nothing and is distinct from His creation. God is present in the world and transcends it, but He is distinct from it.
Since astrology is an occult practice of divination severely condemned in God's word, even horoscope columns are rooted in the occult. They may be marketed in trendy magazines with the latest slang, but this packaging is deceptive. If you take reading horoscopes lightly or "in fun," you are denying that the occult is forbidden or possibly dangerous. As someone who was involved in this and related areas for a number of years, I can attest to the dangers inherent in these practices. In the Deuteronomy passage, God warns us against divination, sorcery, spiritism and interpreting omens; such systems are not from Him. To read horoscopes is to take God's word lightly and is trifling with the occult.
The very roots of astrology are in ancient paganism and worship of the planets as gods, making astrology a true form of "fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness " (Ephesians 5:11). Most astrologers are involved in other forms of occultism and New Age practices such as tarot cards, numerology, belief in reincarnation, having spirit guides, Eastern meditation practices, and so forth. Thus, reading horoscopes (as well as consulting an astrologer) is to be receptive to something coming from this kind of spiritual worldview.
Being an occult art, astrology is connected to the paranormal powers of the occult. This paranormal effect manifested for me when I would concentrate on a chart in preparation for a reading or during the session with the client: I would feel a distinct energy flowing between the chart and myself. I called it "tuning into the chart." I usually felt guided through the chart, and seemed to know where to go in the chart for information and which information was relevant for the client. I also experienced psychic "flashes" which came to my mind in words or pictures. I usually thought this guidance was coming from one of my spirit guides or that I was tapping into a psychic data bank. Surprisingly, direct clues from the client distracted rather than helped me; I preferred not to know anything about the client other than their birthdate, birthplace, and time of birth, information that was needed to compute the chart. I often recorded charts on tapes for absent clients whom I had never met, and this was sometimes easier than having the clients physically present. I learned from talking to other astrologers that they shared these experiences. The longer I practiced astrology, the stronger the guidance and psychic flashes. I realize now that this information and "guidance" comes from demonic sources much the same way a medium or psychic receives some of their data, and it was accurate enough to "hook" clients into coming back and recommending me to friends, as well as validating astrology for my own benefit.
If you are reading this as a Christian, please take God's word to heart and do not consult horoscopes, even in fun. It's easy to get in the habit of reading them. If by coincidence a horoscope forecast is right one day, you would become even more curious and captivated, and actually might get interested enough in astrology to consult an astrologer.
If you are reading this as a non-Christian, or even as someone who practices astrology, please realize that I am not attacking you or astrologers. This is about the practice of astrology and what God has to say about it; it is not about being "against" anyone. Please keep an open mind, and consider whether it is the Creator who should be consulted rather than a divinatory practice using the Creator's creation. God reveals Himself as Creator in nature and in the design of the universe, and in the fact everyone has a conscience, automatically knowing there is a right and wrong. But the fullest revelation of God came in His son, Jesus Christ, who suffered on the cross the penalty for our sins, who bodily resurrected the third day, and who will come again to judge the living and the dead. We also have God's revelation in His word, the 66 books of the Bible.

Divination and looking to creation or psychic powers

"There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer." Deuteronomy 18.10
Then they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him. 2 Kings 17.17
When they say to you, "Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter," should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?" Isaiah 8.19
You are wearied with your many counsels; let them stand forth and save you, those who divide the heavens, who gaze at the stars, who at the new moons make known what shall come upon you. Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. Isaiah 47.13-14a
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator. Romans 1.25

The heavens and God

LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Psalm 8.1
The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. Psalm 19.1

Jesus

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found Him of whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." John 1.45
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. Hebrews 1.1-2
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?" John 11.25-26

The Dangers of Astrology -- Part One by Dr. John Ankerberg and Dr. John Weldon (from Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs, Harvest House, 1996)

The Dangers of Astrology -- Part One
by Dr. John Ankerberg and Dr. John Weldon
(from Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs, Harvest House, 1996)

There are dangers from astrology besides those associated with spiritism and other occult practices.

1 Science writer Lawrence E. Jerome states, "How much physical and psychological damage such false astrological practices and advice cause cannot even be estimated.

"2 Bart Bok, a former president of the prestigious American Astronomical Society, has observed that, "The study and ready availability of astrological predictions can exert an insidious influence on a person’s personal judgment.

"3 Indeed, if a billion people trust in the false advice of astrology in some degree, one can hardly hazard a guess at the overall personal cost around the world. Even some astrologers confess that practitioners are liable to the characteristic hazards of the trade. These kinds of hazards do not make for a trusting relationship between astrologer and client but further complicate an already potentially dangerous situation.
Leading astrologer Tracy Marks discusses the following potential problems between the astrologer and his client. A little imagination here will reveal how each one can produce harm to the client:

• the astrologer may experience himself as superior to the client.
• the astrologer may encourage the dependency of his clients.
• the astrologer may give clients what they appear to want rather than what they really need.
• astrologers may pass their own values and ideas under the cloak of astrological authority.
• the astrologers’ "own sense of powerlessness" may lead them to "disempower [their] clients, imparting deterministic [fatalistic attitudes."
• the astrologers’ own fears concerning certain planets and signs may influence their interpretation and "result in [their] imparting pronouncements which could become destructively self-fulfilling prophecies."
• astrologers may speak in astrological jargon the client cannot understand and use mystical language authoritatively to create "the illusion that [they] are imparting high truths, when indeed [they] may be saying little of significance."
• astrologers may "speak in vague, ungrounded generalities.

"4

Marks observes that even "most professional astrologers are guilty on occasion of at least several of the above inadequacies….
"5 In addition, she admits that astrologers may react more to the chart than to the client; may become egotistical; may devalue the client; and can draw hasty conclusions.

6
Astrological predictions or advice can cause people to do things they would otherwise never have done, and sometimes this has led to tragedy. Given the right circumstances, a particular chart interpretation and its potentially powerful influence upon a person could even lead to criminal acts. In order to help fulfill or forestall what a person believes is the cosmic influence or destiny upon himself or another. For example, a chart reveals that a company will fail, so the president embezzles funds for his own security; or that a child may be born mentally retarded, so there is an abortion.
German theologian and occult expert Dr. Kurt Koch observes that, "Astrology has been responsible for a number of suicides and murders.

"7 He cites examples in his books concerning the effects of the suggestive nature of astrology. For example, a woman murdered her own son because an astrologer predicted he would lead a life of mental illness. The shattered mother went to jail, but the astrologer went free.8 Dr. Sherman Kanagy, a physics professor at Purdue University observes, "In ancient times women whose babies were born under the sign of Scorpio would often kill their babies by drowning because of the evil significance.

"9
Remember that astrologers are: 
1) unlicensed and unregulated, 
2) require little or no education, 
3) can become a "professional" astrologer overnight, 
4) are occultists who characteristically reject absolute moral values, and 
5) often use their powers over others in a manipulative and authoritarian manner. If the practices of such people force them into demonic collaboration, what kind of answers are clients getting from astrological counseling? In considering the clients of astrologers, we will see additional reasons for concern.

The Clients of Astrologers
What kind of person seeks out an astrologer? We can determine from the statements of astrologers themselves that some and perhaps many clients are those for whom astrology will be most destructive.
Clients lack values. For example, astrological counselor Stephen Arroyo observes, "Many people who request astrological assistance are suffering from a lack of values...."10
Clients are easily duped or deceived. Astrologer Jane Evans observes, "I have known too many people to whom self-deception was second nature.

"11
Clients are looking for the astrologer to make their decisions for them. This is a problem that is almost universally admitted among astrologers. Some attempt to help such clients become more independent, but others willingly become their "gurus," and enjoy the fact that their client will make no decision without first consulting their "wisdom….

"12
It is the ability of astrologers to justify a person’s selfish tendencies that caused Dr. John Warwick Montgomery to give the following warning: "The very elasticity of astrological interpretation is its most dangerous characteristic where people desperately desire a shortcut to self knowledge and solutions to their problems, and where the answers are ambiguous, they inevitably choose according to self-interest. Thus the floodgates are opened to the reinforcement of evil tendencies.... It should not be regarded as strange that astrology has so frequently been used to guide evil farther along the path it has already taken.

"13
Because astrologers reject any absolute standard of morality, they prefer a "situation ethics" approach where moral decisions are determined largely by the whim and preference of the astrologer or client. Astrologer Alan Oken observes, "No Path is the Truth Path, for in the Absolute there is not Truthfulness or Falsehood, no right and no wrong, no yes and no no.

"14 Even the Alexandrian astronomer and "father" of astrology, Ptolemy (2nd C.A.D.) confessed, "Many of its practitioners are in it for gain rather than truth or wisdom, and pretend to know more than the facts permit.

"15 Another astrologer testifies, "The preoccupation with self is really in the interest of evolution.... In modern astrology we seek confirmation of our personal importance.

"16
Evil Uses
Astrologers admit astrology can be used for either "good" or evil purposes. Leading astrologer Sydney Omarr states, "Astrology is there, to be used for the good—or the evil (Hitler!).

"17 Just as there is both black and white witchcraft, one astrology text observes, "There is white and black astrology.…

"18 Leading astrologer Nicholas deVore confesses that "astrology has often been used to unworthy ends.

"19
Adolph Hitler, the ancient Aztecs and their human sacrifices, the modern serial killer known as the Zodiac killer, modern witches and Satanists, have used astrology for evil purposes. All realized that astrology’s power may be used malevolently. For whatever reasons, these people decided to choose evil. This is the point. The astrologer is free to choose. Perhaps the most cunning deception here is when, like Hitler, the astrologer uses his craft for evil while thinking he is using it for the good.

Morality and Sex
In the astrologer’s view, morality is often determined by one’s subjective or "higher" state of consciousness, not by what one believes or does. Obedience to God would be (perhaps) moral for one person and immoral for another. As one guru who endorses astrology states, "I would like to say to you: obedience [to God] is the greatest sin," and "I teach you disobedience.... The devil did a tremendous service to humanity.

"20 But most astrologers are not very concerned with morality in the first place. In fact, many of them believe that moral judgments themselves are the real evil.

21 Their job, as astrologers, is simply to validate the client’s own views, whatever they are.

22
One reason astrology is popular is because it permits us to explain our own failures and evils, or whatever we do not like in ourselves, as the fault of the stars. Here is an attractive escape from personal responsibility.

23 Astrologers may say that "Saturn did it," or that "the stars weren’t auspicious." Virtually anything can be rationalized, any sin or evil, because "What happens to us is what needs to happen to us.
"24
But if there is any place in which astrology promotes sin, it is the area of sexual behavior.
25 In an era of AIDS and dozens of other sexually transmitted diseases, this is of no small concern.
26 Astrologer Jeff Green provides an illustration. Here is the case of a woman who was deeply troubled by her sexual immorality. What did she discover through astrological counseling? She realized that she was free to enjoy sexual affairs without guilt by making them "spiritual," even a divine activity. On what basis? Simply because Pluto was in the eighth house in Leo, the south node was in the seventh house in opposition to Mars, and Pisces was in the second house.
27
Astrologers also observe chart indicators for bisexuality, homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, and transexualism.
28 Since such activities are "indicated," perhaps the one who desires to pursue them will have them justified in his own mind. And the one who does not desire them may live in worry or fear over the possibility, perhaps until he gives in to his astrological "destiny." We can only wonder what an impressionable teenager would think if he went to an astrologer and discovered such "indicators" in his chart. What if he or she were confused about sexuality, especially in an age of gross experimentation and so-called sexual enlightenment?
Consider the advice to a client by Maxine Bell, a famous astrologer to Hollywood’s homosexual community: "He didn’t come to me for help, he came to me to find out when his next affair was due. He was just finishing up one [affair] and after two nights of being alone he was desperate, so he wondered what his prospects were for a new affair. I gave him the rundown on when the next affair would be likely. Whenever transiting Mars goes over the fifth house that starts things going.
"29
Many astrologers believe that homosexuality is as much a part of a person’s "destiny pattern" as their birth or death. Maxine Bell states, "If they were homosexuals as they closed their last life and had no desire to quit or reform, them they come back as a homosexual and they have their own karma they bring with them.
"30 "I have no wish to change, only to help," says Edith Randall, a celebrated Hollywood astrologer. Her 60,000 astrological readings over the years include "a sizable slice of the homosexual community.

Buddies: WHY SALVATION

Buddies: WHY SALVATION: "WHY SALVATION God created everything, including man. God is ALL-loving, ALL-merciful, ALL-righteous, ALL-knowing, and ALL-powerful as ..."

WHY SALVATION

God created everything, including man. God is ALL-loving, ALL-merciful, ALL-righteous, ALL-knowing, and ALL-powerful as well as being the source of ALL light. God has no part and will not tolerate anything that is not righteous. Righteous means just or lawful, so that means that anything that is not just or lawful will not be, nor can it be tolerated by God. God created beings called angels before He created man. Angels were given the ability of free choice, to which man was given as well, the greatest of these angels Lucifer, Satan, was second to only God in power and dominion. Lucifer wanted more than that, he chose to rebel against God in trying to be as God is. God being the only one, who is ALL-powerful, could not be defeated. Satan after being unable to win over God, tried to win over mankind, and to separate man from God, beginning with Eve in the Garden of Eden. Man as well as angels, have the ability of free will, the ability of choice. To have choice you must have more than one option to choose from. God allowed Satan some freedom after his rebellion to allow man the choice of either following God or following Satan, there is no other option, for Satan has claimed all that is not of God, which is sin. Now back to God being ALL: loving, merciful, and righteous, it would be wrong to force anyone to live forever in His presence who does not want to, so here we are with the choice to live forever with God, or we can CHOOSE not to live forever with God. We can choose whichever one we want but, if you remember God is ALL-loving, ALL-merciful, ALL-righteous, ALL-knowing, and ALL-powerful as well as being the source of ALL light, if we choose not to live with God, what do you have left? You have no love, no mercy, no justice or law, and no light, the very definition of Hell. People do not want to think about Hell, or that an ALL loving God would make or put people into such a place, but remember you get to choose whether you go there or not. Satan would want us to believe that God puts us in Hell, so we would not believe in Him, for how can a ALL-loving God place us in an eternity of torment, but God loves us so much that He allows us the option, the choice, to live or not to live with Him. God being loving and merciful has made it easy for us to be with Him, because He loves us so much and He wants all to live with Him. All you need to do is believe in God, God the Father, Jesus the Son of God, and the Holy Ghost, and want to live forever with Him. Salvation, do you want it or need it? You get to choose whether to live in the light with a loving God forever, or to live in the darkness without love, mercy or anything just or lawful, for just as long...........Eternity!!

To Summary

Road Map to Salvation

Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
I Corinthians 15:1-4 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain . 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:


1) Know that everyone is a sinner Romans 3:10 and 3:23
2) The cost of sin Romans 5:12 and 6:23
3) Jesus Christ paid the price for OUR sins Romans 5:8
4) Believe and Accept that Jesus Christ Died for you and arose from the dead, all can be saved I Corinthians 15:1-4


The Free Gift of Salvation means: 1) To know and believe that you are a sinner 2) Jesus Christ Died for Your Sins 3) Jesus Christ Arose up three days later { His proof that He is God } 4) Letting God pay for Your sins and choosing to not pay them yourself, { With Sincerity on these beliefs, do not just speak it without Believing it }

II Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Revelation 20:14-15 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
The Sin Debt Must be paid by someone, either you can pay it ( In Hell Forever ) or you can allow God to pay it for you. Jesus Christ Wants you Saved So Much He died for you, He already submitted the payment, all you need to do is accept it and Live for Eternity in Heaven with Him.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Our sin nature at birth has already separated us from God, but God loves us so much, that He died for us and paid the Sin Debt for us, when God ( Jesus Christ ) Died on the Cross at Calvary. Jesus Christ became the Sin of the World, to bring us back to Him.

I Corinthians 15:3-4 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:



To Summary

Forever Saved

II Timothy 2:15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

There are three main ingredients to gaining a greater understanding of God's word. One is Dispensation. Though God does not change,
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
God does change how He deals with man at different times throughout the Bible.
I Corinthians 12:5,6 5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

Without understanding this people, believers and non-believers alike, get confused and take certain scriptures out of context. Remember you need to think of whom the scripture is intended for, and who wrote it. The majority of the bible is written for the Jew, the nation of Israel. There are certain things that were given to them, promises, consequences, and rules such as the law, that we during this Age ( Dispensation of The Grace of God ) are not under. Today, Salvation once accepted, is sealed with the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

So Once you accept the Free Gift of Salvation that Jesus Christ has offered to everyone, that is to believe that you are a sinner, and that you are unable to, in any way save yourself from eternal separation from God on your own, you believe Jesus Christ is God and Jesus Christ died for your sins and arose three days later, you are saved and eternally secure in Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures

I Timothy 2:3,4 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

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Satanic Music Devil Occult Pagan Musicians Rock Roll Pop Guitar

A-Z of Satanic Music

Bizarre's guide to Satanism, occultism and evil in rock n roll... Wagner, Manson, Mayhem and, um, Sting?!

By Martin Robinson

November 2009

A is for Arthur Brown
“I am the God of Hellfire, and I bring you...Fire!” With those words in 1968 Arthur Brown announced Satan had arrived to burn the 60s peace and love dream down. Two years before, the wild man from Whitby had caused a sensation in Paris with his incendiary, macabre band, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, playing a part in instigating the Parisian student riots. In London he was an active part of the bohemian, druggy psychedelic scene, but it was his No.1 single ‘Fire’ which truly shocked the establishment. Its groundbreaking display of Satanic notions and imagery suggested an evil lurking beneath the 60s that was now ready to emerge.

B is for backwards messages
Since the birth of rock ‘n roll rumours have spread of bands hiding subliminal Satanic messages backwards in their songs. Messages were found backwards in The Beatles’ songs, particularly ‘Revolution 9’ which reversed, says, “Paul is a dead man, miss him, miss him.” This instigated the ‘Paul is Dead’ conspiracy theory. Bands such as Pink Floyd and Cradle of Filth deliberately put backwards messages in their songs, but a real furore broke in the early 90s when Christian groups claimed Madonna’s ‘Justify My Love’ when played backwards said, “I love Satan.” Judas Priest had a civil trial brought against them by the families of two fans who’d committed suicide. They said the message ‘Do it’ was in their song ‘Better By You, Better Than Me’. Singer Rob Halford retorted it would be counterproductive to get fans to kill themselves and said if they included a subliminal message it would be “Buy more of our records.”
C is for Cannibal Corpse
With album artwork involving such things as rotting bodies performing cunnilingus on each other and songs such as ‘Entrails Ripped from a Virgin’s Cunt’ and ‘Addicted to Vaginal Skin’, Cannibal Corpse have been on a mission to drag death metal further into the filth than it’s ever been. While they’ve laughed off suggestions that they’re Satanists, for their efforts in depicting Hell on Earth for over 20 years, the Horned One would surely give his approval.

D is for Daniel Johnston
Daniel Johnston is a savant genius American singer-songwriter haunted by Satan. In and out of mental institutions his whole life, he managed to still be heralded by Kurt Cobain, but his demons continually wrecked his career. He once used a New York showcase organised by Sonic Youth to lecture the crowd on Satan, then later refused to sign a lucrative record deal because the label had Metallica on their roster and he thought they were Satanic. Once, when flying in a small plane with his pilot father, Johnston became convinced he could fly, so cut off the plane’s power. He and his father miraculously survived the crash.


E is for The Eagles
‘Hotel California’ is strongly rumoured to be about the Church of Satan building, and lines like “In the master’s chambers/they gathered for the feast/they stab it with their steely knives/but they just can’t kill the beast’ seem to back this up.  Indeed, on the inside cover of the Hotel California album the photo seems to show the bald figure of the head of the Church of Satan, Anton LaVey looking down on the band from a balcony.
F is for Freddie Mercury
Few still seem to realise that Bohemian Rhapsody, a national treasure of a song is about one man’s desperate battle against the Devil. It seems the young bohemian kills a man and sells his soul to the devil to escape execution. Not quite such a family tune now is it?

G is for Great Balls of Fire
The complex, deeply troubled Jerry Lee Lewis came from a deeply religious background and thought rock n roll was the Devil’s music. But he discovered he had a gift for it, and launched himself into damnation, alternating between periods of drinking and whoring and invoking the Devil as he played, and periods of pious self-loathing. He initially refused to record Great Balls of Fire because he thought it was Satanic, screaming at his producer, “Man I got the devil in me!” Believed himself to be cursed to remain alive while those around him died. Now 74 years old.


H is for Hall
The super-smooth Darryl Hall from middle of the road pop kings Hall & Oates is an unlikely devotee of occultism. He once said, “Around 1974 I graduated into the occult. I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the 19th century British magician who shared these beliefs...his personality was the late 19th century equivalent of mine.” He says. “I believe in the ability to change reality through will and that is the definition of magick. I feel I have done that. When I’m singing and in touch with the energy...that’s the reason I’m in music.”

I is for Ian Curtis
Obsessed by the occult, there has been some speculation amongst fans and writers that the Joy Division frontman’s remarkable, almost anciently written, pitch-black mystic lyrics and his literally spell-binding, ‘possessed’ live performances are evidence that he was possessed by a demon or was himself a called a nagual, a demonic witch doctor capable of transforming himself into animals. Whatever he was, he hung himself in his kitchen aged just 23.

J is for Joe Meek
Joe Meek was the deranged genius producer who made the first ever UK single to get to number one in America, ‘Telstar’, out of a kitchen studio in a flat on London’s scuzzy Holloway Road. He was also an occult obsessive who, in early 1958, got a tarot message that Buddy Holly would die on February 3rd. He contacted Holly, but the date passed without incident. However, on February 3rd 1959, Holly died in a plane crash. Meek saw this as proof of the spirit world and began regularly holding séances where he’d consult Pharoah Ramses the Great. He eventually believed he was possessed by demons and on February 3rd 1967 he used a shotgun to kill his landlady, then himself.


K is for King Crimson
The debut album by these prog rockers was 1969’s ‘In the Court of the Crimson King: an observation by King Crimson’ was arguably the first Satanic concept album which combined psychedelia, heavy metal and lyrics about the Devil to blow the minds of LSD-fried hippies everywhere.

L is for Led Zeppelin
Jimmy Page was obsessed with the occult, and by filtering his interest into Led Zeppelin IV, he not only gave the band an expressly demonic edge, he was crucial in bringing occultism into the open. He was an exponent of Aleister Crowley’s teachings, and even bought Crowley’s old Loch Ness property, Boleskine House (USE THE PIC OF HIM IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE) , where Crowley performed magick rituals and conjured demons. Page owned an occult bookstore and publishers called, ‘The Equinox’, and occult symbols representing the members of the band were put on the cover on Led Zeppelin IV. Some people have speculated that dabbling in the dark arts cost Led Zeppelin dearly, as following the deaths of Robert Plant’s son in 1977 and drummer John Bonham in 1980, rumours spread of a curse.

M for Marilyn Manson
Although he’s often said he doesn’t believe in Satan as a being, his use of unholy imagery showed just what a grip the idea of the Devil still has on people, as he became public enemy number one in America in the 90s. His ‘Antichrist Superstar’ album and persona united the notions of celebrity and Satan, and cleverly played around with Nazism, fetishism and anti-Christianity, everything that seemed opposed to societal norms and values. After the Columbine killings were blamed on him though, it seemed many people had missed the message and were taking him far too literally.

N is for Norwegian Black Metal
The most overtly Satanic metal scene. In the early 90s in Norway bands such as Mayhem and Burzum peddled a violently anti-Christian message which resulted in murders and over 50 arson attacks on churches.  Mayhem’s guitarist Euronymous was at the centre of the scenes most notorious incidents. In 1991, his bandmate ‘Dead’ shot himself at the house they shared; upon discovering the body, Euronymous took photos, ate a piece of brain, and collected skull fragments which he later made into necklaces. In August 1993, Burzum’s Verg Vikernes murdered Euronymous at his apartment, inflicting 23 knife wounds in the process.


O is for Orridge, Genesis P-
After a correspondance with William S Burroughs while at Hull University, Neil Megson AKA Genesis P-Orridge got introduced to the work of occult magick exponent Bryon Gysin. He soon dropped out of university and began a war on conventions and taboos with his highly provocative, occult-influenced pagan bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV. In 1995 he released the seminal counter-cultural occult book, ‘Thee Psychick Bible’.


P is for Paganini
Nicolo Paganini was an 19th century virtuoso violinist from Genoa who was widely accepted as being in league with the Devil due to the difficulty of his compositions and super-human playing. For concerts he’d dress completely in black and would astonish and terrify audiences with his double-jointed wrists, near-impossible fingerings and string-breaking bravado. At one concert in Vienna, audience members claimed to have seen the Devil guiding his arm on stage. People were so convinced of his Devilment that when he died he was refused burial in consecrated ground for 5 years.

Q is for Queens of the Stone Age
With Queens of the Stone Age's fourth album 'Lullabies to Paralyze', Josh Homme brought out the loitering demons that had always been at the edge of his music, and pushed them to the fore in a rare modern and popular example of the occult album. On songs like 'Someone's In the Wolf' and particularly 'Burn the Witch', Homme delved into a hypnotic world of magick, paganism and Grimm's fairytales to create an eerie, supernatural masterpiece.


R is for The Rolling Stones
Their Satanic Majesties, The Rolling Stones, are the ultimate devilish rock ‘n roll, revelling in Lucifer’s shadow. From ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ to ‘Dancing with Mr D’, their songs have treated Satan like a close personal friend, and Mick Jagger in particular has traded upon the sexy, dark glamour of being the embodiment of evil. Their shattering Altamont concert, where the killing of a fan at the hands of the Hell’s Angels the Stones had hired for security, has been seen by some as the point where they paid the price.

S for Sting
Almost unbelievably, the Baron of Bland, Sting, is a big follower of the occult. He once said in an interview regarding his tarot cards: “These cards were designed in the 1940s under the supervision of Aleister Crowley. They’re quite stunning. Crowley was known in his lifetime as ‘the evilest man on earth’ and ‘the great beast’. My favourite tarot card is Death. Oh! Here it is! How strange Death should be right on top. Anyhow – I find it extraordinary how strong are the feelings this card inspires in me.” Who’d have thunk it?

T is for Tartini
Guiseppe Tartini was a composer who’s most famous work is the ‘Devil’s Trill Sonata’, a solo violin sonata which Tartini was encouraged to write when the Devil appeared in a dream. Apparently Satan himself appeared at the foot of his bed with a violin and played the most beautiful music he’d ever heard. When Tartini awoke, he attempted to recreate it, and almost abandoned music when he couldn’t match it – nevertheless, the resulting sonata remains one of the most technically difficult pieces in classical music.

U is for Underground, Velvet
Lou Reed was a deeply troubled, rebellious kid who terrorized his nice middle-class family, playing guitar at incredible volume and putting on an effeminate persona. His parents, wishing to ‘cure’ of him of his homosexuality and his addiction to “the Devil’s music”, listened to their doctor and admitted Lou to a psychiatric hospital where he received electro-shock therapy. It failed to do what his parents desired though, and their son went on to record some of the most dangerous music ever in The Velvet Underground.

V is for Volta, Mars
Recording the Mars Volta’s album ‘The Bedlam in Goliath’ proved to be a nightmarish process after the band had a bad experience with an Ouija board which they’d bought in Jerusalem. It’s unknown what happened exactly, but band member Omar Rodriguez-Lopez confirmed the original engineer had a nervous breakdown and stole the studio tapes. Their studio also flooded twice, and he claims that various tracks they’d recorded would just disappear from the tapes.


W is for Wagner
For his Götterdämmerung piece, the 19th Century German composer Richard Wagner included a section representing the pagan black mass scene. To convey this, he made use of tritones, an extended musical interval between two notes. In the middle ages tritones were called Diabolus in Musica or ‘The Devil’s Interval’, and actually banned by the Church because it was believed that pause invoked sexual feelings and in it lay the Devil. After Wagner, bands like Black Sabbath made liberal use of the eerie sound of the Devil’s Interval.

X is for Crossroads
Legendary American bluesman Robert Johnson was the original musician who sold his soul to the Devil. Johnson was a young but otherwise unremarkable musician in Robinson, Mississippi in the 1930s whose desire to become a blues great led him to a crossroad near the Dockery plantation late one night. Here he met a large black man who tuned Johnson’s guitar, played some songs, then returned it. Suddenly Johnson could play otherworldly blues, but in exchange he had sold his soul. He died aged 27 at a country dance, after his whisky was poisoned by the husband of a woman he’d met.

Y is for Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono was a devotee of Tarot and numerology and refused to let John Lennon or her travel without consulting one of her psychics. In 1978 the couple began collecting ancient Egyptian artefacts which Yoko believed had supernatural and mystical powers. Fascinated by their power they had an Egyptian Room in their apartment at the Dakota building in New York, the building which had been the setting for Roman Polanski son of Satan film, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’. Lennon was shot and killed outside the building by Mark Chapman in December 1980.


Z is for Ziggy Stardust
After becoming interested in the occult around the time of Ziggy Stardust, Bowie moved to Los Angeles where his cocaine addiction fuelled his interest and ended with one of the strangest tales in rock history. Claiming to have seen Satan in his indoor swimming pool he got his wife Angie to get him in touch with a priest who then taught him how to perform an exorcism. Angie Bowie says halfway through the ritual the pool began bubbling, and then she saw an image of Satan burned into the bottom of the pool. The Bowies sold up and moved house immediately.