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This is a list of occult rock bands. Occult rock is a proto-metal style of rock music.
Thrash metal was an inspiration for later extreme genres such as death metal and black metal. This list also includes certain bands which belong to the first wave of black metal. These bands essentially played thrash metal with a heavy emphasis on Satanic and occult themes in the lyrics and imagery. [12]
Aki Särkioja of Immortal Souls, a leading Finnish Christian death metal band. The following is a list of Christian death metal bands. Christian death metal consists of death metal music fused with Christian metal; that is, death metal music with Christian lyrical content, or from bands whose members profess Christianity, or both.
The genre has been described as being influenced by hard rock, [6] proto-metal, [7] psychedelic rock, [1] progressive rock, [8] and blues, [9] as well as commonly incorporating lyrics referencing the occult, [3] but is not inherently or invariably gloomy or dark. [8] AXS noted that Tony Iommi's doom rock style of riffing defined the genre of ...
This is a list of war metal bands. War metal (also known as war black metal or bestial black metal) is an aggressive, cacophonous and chaotic subgenre of blackened death metal. List of bands
Mercyful Fate is a Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 1981 by vocalist King Diamond and guitarist Hank Shermann. [4] Influenced by progressive rock and hard rock, and with lyrics dealing with LaVeyan Satanism (often with ironic or sardonic use of Christian themes) and the occult, Mercyful Fate was part of the first wave of black metal in the early to mid-1980s, along with Venom ...
Occult and Satanic lyrical themes were present in the music of heavy metal and rock bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s such as Black Sabbath and Coven. [36] In the late 1970s, the form of rough and aggressive heavy metal played by the British band Motörhead gained popularity. [36]
Tobias Forge, the masked Ghost leader known as Papa Emeritus, on the 'circularity' of evil, his empathy for metal purists and his love of '70s 'divorce rock.'