I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but roughly 98% of the music that's called Satanic" by our right-wing Christian friends barely rises to the level of self-parody. It's recorded and released by doom/death/black metal bands (and a few goth bands too I guess) to tap into the everlasting market of teenage kids (mostly boys) who want to upset their parents and/or prove to their friends that they're not boring "normies." I'm not saying it's all bad music, but if death metal albums were actually an effective way to get people to worship Satan, then Satanism would probably be the #1 religion in the world right now.
Personally, I don't think a band like Baphomet's Blood, whose lyrics consist mostly of "Satan this, Satan that" and who currently aren't listed anywhere on BEA at all, would be seen as much more than a comedy act by a rational person. And besides, they're from Italy, so they have an excuse. (Also, if you're a member of Baphomet's Blood and you're reading this, please don't send an army of bat-winged vampire demons to my house, I've got plenty of those already.)
Even with the relatively serious-seeming stuff, like maybe Ulcerate or Deströyer 666, both of whom are from Australia (so I guess they've got an excuse too), there isn't a whole lot going on there that involves trying to get the kids to sign up for anything.
Also, if you go by a strict definition of "Satanic," most of the really hardcore black metal stuff (especially of the Scandinavian variety) can't be included because the people who take that kind of thing seriously view "Satan" as just another phony Christian construct - which it is, I might add, and that's just a fact - and therefore not-real and not legitimate.
Take Gwar, for example. They've made something like 15 studio albums, and 99 out of a hundred Evangelicals would call them "Satanic," but in fact they've never been "Satanist" in any real sense. In all those albums, the words "Satan," "devil," or "Lucifer" don't appear in a single song title. They do, however, have a song called "Anti-Anti-Christ," the lyrics of which include this snippet:
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I will crush
Your Anti-Christ
Kill him
And his kind
Crucify the crippled
The devil is a lie!
That's not "Satanic" - just the opposite! Christians should love these guys, especially the violence-loving Trump-voting ones. As for everybody else, some people like this stuff for the same reason they like horror movies and Halloween. It's just... fun.
Still, it might be interesting, in a purely academic sense, to see a list of bands whose members genuinely believe Satan is real, worship Satan as a kind of religion, actually promote that "religion" in their recordings, and aren't just pretending to do so as a joke or a way to make money. I don't think you'll find very many though, because the number of such bands is vanishingly small, and the number that are listed on BEA is even smaller.
I'd define satanic music as music which overtly uses symbols, lyrics and at least some philosophy of any satanist belief. There isn't a lot of music like that out there, imo. Anything can mention satan in the lyrics - blues, country, black metal, gospels, rap, pop music. The line at which this becomes "overt" isn't clear. But I digress.
Here are some fantastic tracks I believe to be mostly satanic.
Gotta have a Merciful Fate banger - the lyrics for The Oath are taken from a black mass and their imagery is satanic, that qualifies
This is a fantastic live of an early occult and satanic band which I've seen circle around BEA - again, it talks about some sort of a ritual, so I'd count it
Still, it might be interesting, in a purely academic sense, to see a list of bands whose members genuinely believe Satan is real, worship Satan as a kind of religion, actually promote that "religion" in their recordings, and aren't just pretending to do so as a joke or a way to make money. I don't think you'll find very many though, because the number of such bands is vanishingly small, and the number that are listed on BEA is even smaller.
It's debatable whether satanism itself is a religion - it's more of a decentralized culture. The members of actual satanic churches usually use the imagery to draw attention to important secular (and many other) issues. Not many of them are theists, as you've pointed out. Satanic music - even when made by non-satanists - sometimes operates in the same way in terms of imagery and lyrics. _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
I'll just add that yes, Satanic music is out there, but the audience is, I'm sure, fairly small. Music about worshipping whatever deity you chose is fine, but it's also not going to be the go to for most people. And on a site like BEA, and with people who are into albums like most people here are, there are so many types of music to discover. I know I don't want to listen to even my favorite artists more than once every 3-4 days or even a week. There's just so much else to listen to and experience. _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
Of her mystery
And crashing through the walls
Of dying history
Make an All-Time 40 chart, and also rate some albums. Try to reserve a few slots at the end of the chart for new releases and older stuff that hasn't been added yet (shouldn't be a problem finding some if you're into Satanic rock stuff), and once you've got the hang of all that, add a few albums into those reserved slots - filling in the track listings and uploading artwork is what racks up the points. That, or fill in data for albums other people have added - those can be found here, though that list might be empty on occasion because other people are doing that too.
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Not bad! But I'm concerned that you're not maximizing the potential of your genre-appreciation target demographic. Don't most fans of music about the devil prefer more of a doom/death/black metal or goth/coldwave/darkwave approach? I'll admit I didn't listen to all of it (I'm more of a post-punk guy), but what I did hear strikes me as more of a classic metal/hard rock sound.
Don't most fans of music about the devil prefer more of a doom/death/black metal or goth/coldwave/darkwave approach? I'll admit I didn't listen to all of it (I'm more of a post-punk guy), but what I did hear strikes me as more of a classic metal/hard rock sound.
Also, welcome to BEA!
Thank you.
The religion isn't the genre of music. Most people affiliated certain genres (Heavy Metal, etc) with Satanic music because it's what the Church claimed. Satanic music encompasses a wide range of genres and isn't limited by one.
To put it certain genres is very limiting, especially with the power Satan possess!
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