If you can tolerate Christian preaching, there is PLENTY of interesting footage of all the most popular bands of the last century and quotes about black magic, Crowley, pacts with the devil, etc.
Watching old blues guys talk about Robert Johnson's selling his soul to the devil is odd.
Listening to members of Black Sabbath talk about the "5th member" of Black Sabbath who gave them the material for the first 3 albums is odd, but particularly strange when you hear the story of how Ozzy gave the bass player a 16th centure Latin grimoire and the bass player woke up to a black figure with fiery eyes at the foot of his bed, ran to the cupboard to throw away the book and it was already gone. When he told Ozzy the story, Ozzy turned it into the song "Black Sabbath". Supposedly, the 4 guys would just show up in a room and the music was already right there, being fed to them through the "5th member" who they called "Black Sabbath".
The curse of Led Zeppelin is interesting as hell, too.
What else? I don't, there's lots of weird shit. It's pretty long. Seems to me that if Hall & Oats and Sting are into Crowley, then you never know who the hell is into this stuff.
I understand that plenty of this footage is metaphorical, like all the bands who claim to be "possessed" when they perform and that their music comes from "somewhere else", but it's pretty interesting to think about Jimmy Page performing Crowley rituals and hanging out by his window with his guitar strapped on just "waiting for something to come". The quotes from Hendrix, Cream, Beatles, Stones and Cream are similar.
I just found it strange that SO MANY bands were tied in with Crowley, Anton La Vey or both. I mean, it's weird stuff and well documented.
check it out if you aren't repulsed by preaching. It's totally worth it:
http://www.musictruth.org/watch_movie.asp
― Scaredy Cat, Saturday, 8 February 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)
Plenty of footage of Anton La Vey performing rituals, too! I watched parts 3 and 4 late last night with the lights off and it was pretty creepy!
― Scaredy Cat, Saturday, 8 February 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)
It's not really about Black Sabbath, although they are featured in it (the beginning of part 3).
It's interesting though. It really is... and I didn't expect it to be, actually. I'm trying to figure out what my favorite footage was.
I think my favorite footage was either the Kenneth Anger movie with the Rolling Stones soundtrack that was a "moving image" Crowleyan incantation or the Satanic invocations by Anton La Vey or the singer from Deicide's interview or possibly the analysis of the Sgt. Pepper and Satanic Majesty's Request covers... but I dug the Led Zep stuff a lot, too. There's an interview with Pete Townshend talking about his end where he genuinely looks concerned or scared or something.
It was also nice to hear the part about Fred Durst admitting that he's lonely and miserable.
― Scaredy Cat, Saturday, 8 February 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)
Hmm.
Interesting.
The first Black Sabbath album does exude a generally
"evil" vibe - far more so than modern bands that
specifically try to achieve that effect with heavy
distortion and lots of growling.
And I always thought "Black Dog" sounded quite
sinister (I mean, Plant virtually sounds like a rapist,
and the music is so lurching, like an unsteady
zombie)
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 10 February 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)
twenty years pass...
I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the artists featured attend this. A number of guests came to LACMA’s Decline Trilogy screenings some years back. Spheeris’ incredible UCLA films deserve to be commercially released, as they’ve been beautifully restored, but like this movie, music rights issues are preventing that from happening
― beamish13, Friday, 11 August 2023 04:54 (two years ago)
According to the blurb on imdb, Tori Amos is among the armies of Satan. I fucking knew it.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 12 August 2023 18:57 (two years ago)