Lucifer Rising
Sin, Devil Worship & Rock'n'Roll
Published on 29. June 2015
300 pages
978-0-85965-878-2 (ISBN)
Description
Lucifer Rising is a popular history of Satanism: from Old Testament lore to the posturing of the world's most notorious heavy metal rock bands, all is made accessible. Containing many candid interviews with modern-day Satanists and controversial rock stars, this book makes light of popular culture's darkest secret.
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Gavin Baddeley
Lucifer Rising
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04/2010
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Plexus Publishing Ltd
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Gavin Baddeley is a priest in the Church of Satan and an authority on the occult, rock music, and trash culture. His other books include Dissecting Marilyn Manson and Goth Chic. A graduate of Cambridge University, he lives in York, England.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One - The History of Satanism
- I. The Satanic Tradition - A Brief History of Satanism
- II. A New Aeon - The Great Beast
- III. The Black Order - Occultists at War
- IV. Sympathy for the Devil - Lucifer and the Countercultural Revolution
- V. The Deflowering of an Age - Manson, the Process Church and Satanic Cults of the 1960s
- VI.The Foundation of the Infernal Empire - Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan
- Part Two - Satanism in 20th Century Culture
- I. Images in the Darkness - Satanism in the Cinema
- II. A Nativity in Black - Satanic Psychedelia and the Devil's Music
- III. Dark Reformation - The Temple of Set and Satanism in the 1970s
- IV. Raising Hell - Heavy Metal and the 'Moral Majority'
- V. Brandy of the Damned - The Genesis of Black Metal
- VI. Scapegoats and Sinners - Satanic Crime, Conspiracy and the Ritual Abuse Myth
- Part Three - The Satanic Millenium
- I. The Apocalypse Generation - Social Darwinism and Satanism in the 1980s
- II. Children of Blood, Death and the Devil - Satanic Thrash, Speed and Death Metal
- III. More than one Left-Hand Path - Satanism and Alternative Music
- IV. Ragnarok and Roll - The Second Coming of Black Metal
- V. War in Hell - The Death of Anton LaVey, and Satanism in the 1990s
- VI. Lucifer Rising - Satanic Culture in the New Millennium
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
