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Occult rock is a proto-metal style of rock music. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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.
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 ...
Papa IV, alias Tobias Forge, performs with Swedish heavy metal band Ghost in Milan, Italy. (Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images) Over the past decade, bombastic, theatric, operatic metal ...
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.'
After many live shows in Canada, the US and in Europe, the band entered the studio in late 2007 to record the first album to feature an actual band. The album, entitled Metal Manifesto, was released in 2008. The band played shows in Canada and Europe during 2009, [2] including a date at the Headbanger's Open Air festival in Itzehoe, Germany in ...
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 ...
Watain is a Swedish black metal band, formed in 1998. [1] The band's name is taken from an early recording by the American black metal group Von. [2] [3] [4] The band have become famous for their theistic Satanist views and for their live shows which involve pyrotechnics, candles, Satanic rituals, animal carcasses, and blood.