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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.
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 .
In 1989 during the Satanic panic, a beloved varsity quarterback's disappearance causes whispers of occult activity and Satanic influence throughout the town of Happy Hollow, Michigan. Dylan, Jordy, and Spud, a trio of outcasts in a struggling heavy metal band called Dethkrunch, decide to capitalize on the town’s sudden interest in the occult ...
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 ...
The band gained some exposure by touring the United Kingdom with Def Leppard in the summer of 1980. The band's sound incorporated a mix of influences, such as doom, progressive and hard rock, with various aspects of the heavy metal sound as well as prominent use of satanic imagery. [2]
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 ...
Bellzlleb (stylized as BELLZLLEᗺ) was a Japanese heavy metal band, formed in 1985 by Tetsu and Yuji in Chiba.The band's sound was heavily influenced by elements from black metal, doom metal and hardcore with philosophical influences from Aleister Crowley, the occult, horror, satanism and the dark, heavy sound of Black Sabbath.
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.'