Magick And Musick, The influence of Ritual Magick in Popular Music Options

You've probably all cringed at the sight of some fundamentalist preacher or politician ranting (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blablabla.gif) about hidden satanic messages in albums by Judas Priest or Led Zeppelin (IMG:style_emoticons/default/diablo.gif) . No doubt cursing them for ruining perfectly good needles as they divine subliminal commands from the dark lord hidden in a cloud of distorted backwards speech. Despite the tedious accusations of those with far too much time on their hands, there has been a long occult connection with rock music stretching back to Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads. During the hey-day of classic rock both Mick Jagger and Jimmy Page were involved with some of Kenneth Anger's explicitly esoteric (oxymoron noted) film projects. Page also was a huge Crowley buff and purchased the house in which he attempted the Abramelin working. This trend has persisted into the present. Progressive metal super-group Tool have noted numerous occult influences on their website including Crowley, Kenneth Grant, and Austin Osman Spare. Likewise, their music is often littered with arcane references to alchemy, Enochiana, or some other such study. But the influence of magick exists in lesser known music like Gong, The Incredible String Band, and minimalist composer John Zorn. I'm personally fascinated by the unique ways each incorporate magick into their songs, be it the spacy-psychedelia of Gong, the folky nature-invocations of the String Band, or Zorn's Qabalistic compositions. I'd love to discuss these or any other music with some occult influence. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wandwizard.gif)

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I forgot to mention that the site that hosts it is a baptist ministry, so if it seems slightly negative, that'd be why... it is, however, a pretty good and fairly accurate article.

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Very interesting article.
Btw, I love religious extremists; their rants always make for wonderful reading when you're really bored. I figured that Jimi was into various New-Age philosophies being tossed around, but I never realized he was sincerely interested in voodoo. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/offtopic.gif) It seems that voodoo keeps coming up in my life recently. My friend and fellow magician has been on a real voodoo bend lately, researching zombies and zombie powder and we've been trying to no avail to locate a voodoo-type shop he found in his past. Anyway, very enlightening read Caliginos.

Very interesting article.
Btw, I love religious extremists; their rants always make for wonderful reading when you're really bored. I figured that Jimi was into various New-Age philosophies being tossed around, but I never realized he was sincerely interested in voodoo. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/offtopic.gif) It seems that voodoo keeps coming up in my life recently. My friend and fellow magician has been on a real voodoo bend lately, researching zombies and zombie powder and we've been trying to no avail to locate a voodoo-type shop he found in his past. Anyway, very enlightening read Caliginos.

Thanks.

Voodoo-specific shops tend to be rare. Especially the ones that operate in public. I'm actually rather lucky to live in a city that has a voodoo shop. I've spent entire afternoons down there talking to the Santero (Priest of Santeria. Santeria is a pseudo-christian variant of Voodoo.) who owns the place.