From: ksm@abb-sc.abb-sc.com (Ashley Sebastian Kaos)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: Pagan Rock Artists...
Date: 5 Oct 92 23:35:16 GMT
Organization: ABB Systems Control Company, Inc.


In article <1992Oct2.204756.29056@ncsu.edu>, blchapma@eos.ncsu.edu (BEKKI LYN) writes...
> 
>In article <2OCT199207362151@elroy.uh.edu>, lib1p@elroy.uh.edu (Tammy Stark Blandino) writes:
>|> Danzig (heavy metal) is decidedly Satanic.  Concrete Blonde (heavy 
>|> metal sorta) is either atheist or some other non-christian if their
>|> music is any indication.
> 
>King Diamond also says he's a Satanist.  Candlemass seems like they're
>something (I've heard that they might be Christian, but they certainly
>aren't "typical" if they are).  Ronnie James Dio is a Taoist I believe,
>and Yngwie J. Malmsteen has a library of occult books and wears
>a pentagram necklace and his music seems to reflect these interests.
> 
>That's more from the heavy metal side for today....
>-- 
> 
>Bekki Lyn


	I didn't see the original of this, so I may be repeating someone, but 
here are a few GREAT pagan bands:

	Cocteau Twins - Lead vocalist Elizabeth Frasier is/was some kind of 
Goddess worshipper. Heard a rumer that she desounced craft though about the 
time they put out the album Blue Bell Knoll. Would explain the drop in 
quality. New age meets rock sounding. Elizabeth's voice is incredible, although 
she often does not sing in english.

	Dead Can Dance - Pagan, probably wiccan. Lisa gerrard appeared in 
concert the last time I saw the band in a white robe, abrefoot and wearing a 
winter-garland on the head. My friend said she could see a crescent on the 
brow. Lisa Gerrard is a lot like Elizabeth Frasier in that she also will sing 
in other languages(Pictish, Irish Gaelic, Welsh and some of her own 
inventing). She is bi-tonal and her voice is goddess given! The music is 
gothic/medeival. 

	This Mortal Coil - Probably Pagan, some songs sure seem like it. Then 
again, the members of the previous two bands make regualr appearences on the 
records and are definitely Pagan. Pop meets sorrow and synth.

	Current 93 - Can't put a label on these. References to the Corn King 
and to Christ. Lots of ceremonial magick and references to Crowley though. 
Musical style varies from album to album. From harp/guitar/tam combinations to 
loud feedback laden guitars and synth.

	Sol Invictus - Very pagan. Very dark, but not satanic. Just a little 
obsessed with the darker side of life. The new live album "Let Us Prey" 
contains the song "World Turn Green" in which Mother Nature gets fed up and 
wipes out all humanity, or more specificly anyone who is not a nature 
worshipper. Kind of what this band is about. Very good. Accustic guitars, synth 
effects, violins, tam drums and cellos. 

	Six Comm/Mother Destruction/Freja Aswyn/Patrick O'Kill - Patrick on his 
own is one of the angriest Pagans I have ever heard. "Morthogenisis" contains a 
song about having a holocaust and returning the favor to the christians. Freja 
is a witch practicing Sedhr magick, the female Norse tradition mysteries. Some 
recordings explore this tradition in detail. Synthasisers and electric 
guitars, very effect laden music.

	Death In June - All the members of the three former bands where in 
this band at one time. Pagan, but lots of heavy OTO and other ceremonial 
magick thrown in. Accustic guitars and synth. 

	Fields Of The Niefelim - A loud rocking band with heavy Crowly and 
mythological influences. Electric guitars and heavy beat, the singer 
sounds like he's been smoking and drinking without sleep for a week.

	And Also The Trees - Although they never really admit to it, the song
"Prince Rupert" gives a pretty clear hint, if you know who he was historicly. 
Rather gothic, scottish, depressed pop.

	Kate Bush - On listen to the album "Hounds of Love" and any initiate 
knows she's one of us. Pop atmosphereic sounding. She has a lovely voice.

	Sky Cries Mary - Their new EP contains the song "The River Is Flowing", 
which I first heard on a tape of Z. Buddahpest's coven. I don't know anything 
more but the fact that they are. 

	Stevie Nicks - Yes, she is even though so many have dissed her, she 
actually IS a Welsh Witch. And if you don't know who Stevie Nicks is, or don't 
know what Fleetwood Mac sounds like, I wonder what rock you've been hanging out 
under.

	Anybody interested in these bands can write to me and I can further 
enlighten you. I'm interested in tape-trades too, so turn me on to something.



				- Ashley


	"I'll meet you where the moonlight falls
	I'll meet you where the statues stand
	I'll meet you beneath the falling walls
	We'll awake the Gods, to show their hands
	Amongst the ruins, 
	Amongst the ruins.

	Feel the wamth of the unconquered sun
	Light the torches, the swords of the sun
	He looks down with a mocking laugh
	At the fools crying lonely in the dark
	Amongst the ruins,
 	Amongst the ruins. 

	We rise with the life rune
	And we fall with death rune
	We will wait beneath the Yule together
	We will lie beneath the Yule together
	Forever,
	Amongst the ruins,
	Forever, 
	Amongst the ruins."

					- Sol Invictus
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