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This is a list of occult rock bands. Occult rock is a proto-metal style of rock music. 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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.'
List of extreme metal bands. ... This is a list of bands described as extreme metal ... Satanic Slaughter; Satyricon; Scar Symmetry; Scarve [37]
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 ...
Occult rock (also known as doom rock [1] or witch rock) [2] is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the late 1960s to early 1970s, [3] pioneered by bands such as Coven [3] [4] and Black Widow.