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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 .
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.
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 ...
Gorgoroth are known for their satanic-themed and anti-Christian lyrics. [2] The band's founder and guitarist Infernus is openly a theistic satanist and considers himself "Satan's minister on Earth". He formed Gorgoroth to express his Satanist beliefs. [96] [97] The band's former vocalist Gaahl is openly anti-Christian.
Gehenna are mostly "about music. This means that the actual lyrics are something we add. Of course, we start out with the music, so it's basically for the music." Many of the lyrics and philosophies are based on Sanrabb's personal Satanic beliefs, "but this does not affect all the lyrics. We wouldn't really fit into the label black metal.
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The band "wanted to do the exact opposite [of Satanic backmasking], put the most positive thing we could think of as a backwards message." [39] Robert Fripp "Hååden Two" "One thing is for sure – the sheep is not a creature of the air. Baaaaaaaah!"
One of the songwriters, James Vincent, appears with the name "Jim Donlinger" on the album. Born James Vincent Dondelinger, he was not a member of the band (prior to this he was in the band Aorta), but was asked by Bill Traut, Coven's producer (and founder of Dunwich Records, whose logo also appears on the album), to write, arrange and co-produce the album together with Traut.