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This is a list of occult rock bands. Occult rock is a proto-metal style of rock music. ... The Devil's Blood [2] Earthless [12] Ghost [2] Goblin [5] Graham Bond [5]
Satan are an English heavy metal band originating from Newcastle upon Tyne in 1979, known as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement. [1] The band is considered influential for playing a form of proto- thrash / speed metal that was fairly advanced by the standards of the early 1980s.
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] Over the years, thrash metal has ...
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.'
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 ...
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 ...
Venom are an English heavy metal band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1978. Coming to prominence towards the end of the new wave of British heavy metal, Venom's first two albums, Welcome to Hell (1981) and Black Metal (1982), are considered major influences on black metal, thrash metal and extreme metal in general. [1]
“The artists I immediately grasped onto were when I was 3 years old,” Forge recalls. “[Mötley Crüe’s] Shout at the Devil, [Twisted Sister’s] Stay Hungry, KISS, stuff like that. My ...