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It’s a good bet that most teenagers
have no idea what this means or that it has anything to do with
Satanism. And the ones that do probably enjoy it. You know, there
are the knowing ones and then there are their victims. Because
we know that many of these teenagers are reembodied fallen Atlanteans,
we can’t say they’re all innocent. But there’s
certainly a fair quotient of souls of light among them who have
forgotten their spiritual birthright and are about to lose it.
Now I’d like to show you the first group,
which is called Slayer. And if you thought Metallica was bad,
this is worse. The name of the album here is Show No Mercy. On
the cover you have the logo for Slayer, which is the inverted
pentagram made up of swords with one sword missing. And who’s
holding the missing sword but the Goat of Mendes.
The five-pointed star is the symbol of Christ—of
you becoming the Christ. That’s why we have the five-pointed
star on our flag. America is a nation sponsored by Saint Germain
where all people can pursue a path of personal Christhood with
Jesus. So the inverted five-pointed star is the symbol for taking
the figure of your Christhood and turning it upside down. This
is the equivalent of placing the head of Jesus Christ at the base-of-the-spine
chakra and perverting the light/energy/consciousness of the Children
of Light into sexual orgies. Again, Satanism thrives on orgies
because its rites are always aimed at raping the light of the
chakras and the electromagnetic field of the body and the aura.
Vitruvian Man or Pentagram,
Based on Leonardo da Vinci |
The lyrics which I’m going to read you are from the song
“The Antichrist”:
Screams and nightmares
Of a life I want
Can’t see living this lie no
A world I haunt
You’ve lost all control of my
Heart and soul
Satan holds my future
Watch it unfold
I am the Antichrist
It’s what I was meant to be
Your God left me behind
And set my soul to be free
Watching deciples
Of the satanic rule
Pentagram of blood
Holds the jackals truth
Searching for the answer
Christ hasn’t come
Awaiting the final moment
The birth of Satans son
Screams,
From a life I live
Torment,
Is what I give
Torture,
Is what I love
The down fall
Of the heavens above
I am the Antichrist
All love is lost
Insanity is what I am
Eternally my soul will rot
So, now we’ll see a videoclip of that
song. [Videoclip of “The Antichrist” by Slayer played.
At its conclusion Tom Araya (Slayer lead singer) says: “As
I’m sure you’re aware, we have a new album that’s
out, which I understand seems to be picked up by quite a few of
you. I have one question
—Have you learned the words to our songs? You have waited
this long, Hell no longer awaits!”]
If you didn’t see it, you wouldn’t
believe it. As you probably noticed, most of the members of the
group were wearing upside-down crosses. It’s the same principle
as the inverted pentagram. Wearing Christ upside down. Inverting
the crucifix when they perform a black mass—actually putting
Christ’s head at the level of the genital area—that’s
the meaning of the upside-down cross or crucifix. That’s
how vile Satanism is. I’m sure most people don’t realize
that.
I wanted everyone to take note of the head movements
of the band members. This is a new thing with kids. It’s
called “headbanging.” In fact, this is the throwing
off of the energy of the spinal cord and the medulla oblongata
through the centrifugal force of the head motion. We wonder why
this is done and why it’s been popularized.
According to LaVey, who wrote the Satanic Bible,
all satanic rituals need the energy of the life-force behind them.
Now, LaVey also says in the Satanic Bible that he discourages
animal sacrifice and human sacrifice. Well, I wouldn’t expect
him to write about those things because he would fear the law
and fear for his own life. But I don’t think there’s
any doubt in anyone’s mind that the Church of Satan does
practice human and animal sacrifice. In his “bible”
LaVey lists alternative methods of providing the energy for a
satanic ritual. One of those methods is through taking the energy
released in an orgasm.
Now we can see that this headbanging which takes
place at these concerts produces an outflow of the life-force
through the crown chakra which is similar to the release of the
life-force through the base chakra in an orgasm. The head movement—it’s
tantamount to self-abuse. It is our conclusion, therefore, that
the astral result of this and the astral result of a heavy metal
concert in terms of the light released is identical to that which
is released in an orgy or a ritual sacrifice.
You will notice also that the lead singer, whose
name is Tom Araya, asks, “Have you learned the words to
our songs?” Now, we heard on 20/20, and it’s been
printed in lots of newspapers and many people believe it, that
lyrics don’t mean anything. Well, the bands think that lyrics
mean something. And the Satanists think that lyrics mean something.
So the youth of America had better wake up to the fact that the
lyrics do mean something and that when they go to these concerts
and sing along and bang their heads to the syncopated beat, they
are participating in satanic rituals.
We already knew that these lyrics are being pounded
into the subconscious of the teenagers through the rock beat but
now we have a performer openly talking about it. That’s
something that I’ve never seen before—not with lyrics
that are this blatantly and openly satanic.
ECP: Well, this song is a decree—”I
AM the Antichrist.” He is revealing that they decree in
Hell. Mark Prophet told me there are astral decree groups who
decree against the Light and the Lightbearers. Tom Araya is teaching
satanic decrees to those youths. And he wants them to know the
words to the decree because, short of divine intervention, they
will become antichrist in vibration when they say them.
SCP: The members of Slayer are Kerry King, lead
guitarist; Jeff Hanneman—who wears an upside-down crucifix;
Tom Araya—the lead singer that you saw in the video; and
Dave Lombardo, the drummer. I also have two short audioclips to
play but first I want to read you some more of their lyrics. This
one, also by Slayer, is called “Evil Has No Boundaries”:
Blasting our way through the boundaries of hell
No one can stop us tonight
We take on the world with hatred inside
Mayhem the reason we fight
Surviving the slaughters and killing we’ve lost
Then we return from the dead
Attacking once more now with twice as much strength
[twice as much strength after they got the light
from their last foray]
We conquer then move on ahead
Evil
My words defy
Evil
Has no disguise
Evil
Will take your soul
Evil
My wrath unfolds
Satan our master in evil mayhem
Guides us with every first step
Our axes are growing with power and fury
Soon there’ll be nothingness left
Midnight has come and the leathers strapped on
Evil is at our command
We clash with Gods angel and conquer new souls
Consuming all that we can
So, I’ll play that now. [Song “Evil
Has No Boundaries” by Slayer played] The next song is a
denial of the cross. It’s called “Haunting the Chapel.”
It reads:
The holy cross, symbol of lies
Intimidate the lives of Christian born
Speak of death, the words of hate
Anticipation grows amongst the dead
Hell has seen the priests attempt
To bring forth their lord of the cross
Strike of twelve, raise the dead
The chapel comes under attack
The ghosts of sin torment the priests
Their altar will soon be destroyed
Heaven’s palace turning black
The church now belongs to the dead
Blackened magic infest with lust
Lucifer rules supreme
The crystal ball shows unknown fate
The last thing that’s heard is the screams
Ghosts from hell invade this feeble shrine
Heaven’s holy house will fall in time
Satan’s morbid soldiers chant in lust
Destruction of the church we’ll burn the cross
Attacking angels as they pray to God
Tormented preachers hail the twisted cross
Haunting the chapel hell’s demons prevail
Death has come, the house of God has failed.
It pains me to read these lyrics.
ECP: They’re all decrees. All of them are
decrees out of Hell.
SCP: Now, if there are any skeptics in the audience,
and these lyrics and the satanic symbolism aren’t enough
to convince you that these singers are by choice the embodiment
of Evil, we have for you a clip of an interview with a group known
as Venom where the drummer is actually admitting to writing satanic
lyrics. His name is Abaddon, as written in Revelation. You may
or may not know it but Abaddon is also one of the “infernal
names” used for conjuration in the Satanic Bible.
“The Devil writes the best tunes,”
says Abaddon. “We write strong lyrics about a strong subject,
things from the Satanic Bible and Aleister Crowley.” You
know, Aleister Crowley is the occult leader who practiced black
magic, calling himself “the Great Beast 666.” He was
reviled by the British press as “the Wickedest Man in the
World” and has figured in rock from the start. He is present
on the cover of the 1967 Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s
Lonely Hearts Club Band.
We’ll play now the interview with Venom.
You’ll also hear some profanity here. [Videoclip of interview
with Venom rock group played]
Interviewer: All right, we’re sitting here,
as is very obvious, in the bowels of Studio 54, believe it or
not. [Venom lead singer howls like a wolf] And this is the ultimate
revenge for disco tonight. I am sitting with two members of Venom
[animal noises made by Venom], who are mostly housebroken. They’re
not bottle trained yet, though.
Cronos: Food. I will say f .
Abaddon: Yes, right.
Cronos: F .
Interviewer: For the home.
Cronos: Feel free to say f .
Interviewer: Collectively you have a stronger
image or a stronger personality than you do individually.
Abaddon: That’s something we’ve said
all the time from the start was this band works as a solid unit.
Cronos: Brick.
Abaddon: Yeah, it’s like a brick. Say,
you know, it’s just a solid unit which works. As parts it’s,
you know—I’m not a good drummer. He’s not a
particularly good singer. But put it all together and it works
as a unit.
Interviewer: So the sum is greater than the parts.
Cronos: Since the day we began, the Venom concept
was “We are a brick.” And what you do is you got this
area of land over here and you take a brick and you throw it and
it goes [blast of music]. And then you take the brick and throw
it over there again and then you pick it up from there and you
throw it and like that’s how Venom works. You land on a
town. [several voices and blast]
Abaddon: You land somewhere and you hit it.
Cronos: And here’s Venom at full flame,
then off to the next town.
Abaddon: It’s an old story that the Devil
has the best tunes. And that’s, that’s the way we
see it. We write strong lyrics about all sort of happenings or
sort of things that have gone in the past and interesting things—things
that, you know, that you read in Satanic Bible, that you read
it from LaVey, that you read from Crowley. [emphasis added] So
basically, that’s it—we’re writin’ strong
lyrics about a strong subject.
Cronos: Get the likes of King Billy, as we call
him. And—
Abaddon: Yeah, King Walker.
Cronos: And the guy like he’s got it all
wrong. His heart’s in it. He’s really going for it.
And he thinks he’s doing right and that, but the thing is
you can’t turn around and say to the kids, “Right,
we’re going to have, f ing rip virgins’ heads off.”
I mean, what the hell is the point of that?
Interviewer: You mean there’s no truth
to the rumor you’re going to sacrifice Madonna on stage
tonight?
Cronos: Oh, we’ll f her on stage tonight.
But why sacrifice her? She’s beautiful.
Abaddon: Sacrificing over a bitch, what?
Cronos: Oh, yes. Let her die and bring her back
for an encore, you know.
Interviewer: Uncle Jack says—
Cronos: Really happening drink. Buy some. Drink
it. No problem. Drink this, you’ll fall over. [Abaddon and
Cronos lick a Jack Daniel’s bottle]
So there you see and hear him admitting to writing
satanic lyrics. Now we will play the first song by them which
is called “Witching Hour.” [Videoclip of “Witching
Hour” by Venom played]
How dare they do this on planet earth! How dare
they bring their filth and their Hell into the physical plane!
This sank Atlantis and it will sink this continent and cause earth
changes if we don’t stop it now!
You may have noticed that in addition to having
the symbol of Baphomet on stage as their backdrop, the singer,
when he wasn’t singing, was mouthing and screaming.
Going back to Slayer, there’s another song
which comes very close to being an actual satanic invocation from
the Satanic Bible. They’re all satanic invocations but this
one is particularly blatant. It’s similar to the “Invocation
Employed towards the Conjuration of Lust,” which is in the
Satanic Bible. It goes,
My rod is athrust!
The penetrating force of my venom
shall shatter the sanctity of
that mind which is barren of lust;
and as the seed falleth,
so shall its vapours be spread
within that reeling brain
benumbing it into helplessness
according to my will!
In the name of the great God Pan,
may my secret thoughts be marshaled
into the movements of the flesh
of that which I desire.
And then they say, “Hail Satan!”
and with it a Hebrew name of God, Shemhamforash, <17> which
I will not do. The song by Slayer, “Captor of Sin,”
is not a verbatim transcription of the invocation but the concept
is the same. We must look not at the specific words but at the
fohatic keys of the invocation. The wording need not be the same
to tie in to the same energy. Both have a sexual purpose, the
former being the invocation for conjuration of lust and the following
being its enactment. So I am referring mainly to the first verse
of “Captor of Sin,” which reads,
Harlots of hell spread your wings
As I penetrate your soul
Feel the fire shoot through your body
As I slip into your throne
Cast aside, do as you will
I care not how you plead
Satan’s child now stalks the earth
Born from my demon seed
So it goes. I’d like to play that short
first verse. [Excerpt of “Captor of Sin” by Slayer
played] The two members of the band Venom are not merely possessed,
they are actual black magicians who are knowingly doing what they’re
doing. They’re a part of the false hierarchy of Satan.
So every one of these heavy metal musicians has
a direct line to Satan. It’s the antithesis of the spiritual
hierarchy of Jesus Christ, the heavenly hosts, the Ancient of
Days and his saints on earth —it’s the false hierarchy.
And so we can see that it’s the Devil—or any of his
lieutenants—giving dictations. Abaddon, Cronos, and their
ilk are his messengers.
Now, a lot of people have defended these lyrics.
They say, it’s just rock and roll, it’s just marketing
—anything but what it really is. We must look at what things
are, not at what we think or wish or hope they are, and not at
our denial of what they are. Not facing up to the reality of embodied
Evil is America’s number one problem. You get people who’ll
look you straight in the eye and say that it’s harmless.
This is the Devil’s word—”It’s harmless.”
Any time you hear someone say that something’s harmless
you can be sure it’s not harmless.
So, now I’ll move on to the next group,
which is called Megadeth. You may think that’s a strange
name for a group but I heard on National Public Radio that there
are actually two groups who wanted to call themselves Megadeth
and they sued each other to use the name. So I’m not sure
who won, but there it is.
Some of these rock album covers don’t really
pertain to the content of the album but this one does. This is
a song which is called “The Skull beneath the Skin.”
And that picture on the front cover is exactly what it’s
about. It’s about a satanic ritual of torturing a person
by removing their scalp while they’re still alive and putting
plates and staples on the skull so the person cannot see, hear,
or scream.
Other songs on the album are “Loved to
Deth,” “Looking down the Cross” and “Mechanix.”
“Loved to Deth” is about necrophilia. “Mechanix”
is a bizarre sexual song. And “Looking down the Cross”
is another satanic decree. So I’ll read the lyrics to “The
Skull beneath the Skin”:
Mean and infectious
The evil prophets rise
Dance of the macabre
As witches streak the sky
Decadent worship of
Black magic and sorcery
In the womb of the Devils dungeon
Trapped without a plea
See thing in agony
Necrosis is the fate
Pins sticking through the skin
The venom now sedates
Locked in a pillory
Nowhere to be found
Screaming for your life
But no-one hears a sound
Hellpp mmmeeeeeee
Prepare the patients scalp
To peel away
Metal caps his ears
He’ll hear not what we say
Solid steel visor
Riveted cross his eyes
Iron staples close his jaws
So no one hears his cries
The skull beneath the skin
Now your drawn and quartered
Your bones will make the X
Symbol stands for poison
And it’s chained to your head
And as we fold your arms
To make the holy cross
We cross the crucifix
Religion has been lost
The skull beneath the skin.
So I’ll play that now. [Excerpt of “The
Skull beneath the Skin” by Megadeth played] This song conjures
up the feeling of being in Hell. As if I were somehow trapped
in Hell and could not call to Archangel Michael, and this is what
the Devil would play as he was revving up his demons to attack
me. I mean, that’s what comes to mind when I hear that song.
I think we need to look at what the teenagers
do at these concerts. And I’ll give you a little more detailed
description. This is Dave Benser, the heavy metal musician who
gave us the first description of the different types of heavy
metal. He also has talked about moshing, slamming, and diving,
which are the three different dances that they do at the heavy
metal concerts.
So this is him with a picture of himself as a
child. And it’s not hard to figure out what caused the change.
This is the one who listened to KISS in first grade. This is him
in action with his band. That’s acartoon that was printed
with the article. And that is the band.
Notice he’s holding a skull. It’s
this obsession with death. I mean, why would anyone want to be
so obsessed with death? There is no good explanation except that
they are either possessed or influenced by these other satanic
groups who started it in the first place. And we know heavy metal
originated with the fallen ones in the bottomless pit. There were
groups in the sixties, such as the Rolling Stones, and Van Halen
in the seventies who referred to the Devil but it was never, never
quite like this. I mean, it was much more polished, sophisticated
and subtle.
Here’s how an article from the Washington
Post describes heavy metal dancing:
To mosh: a verb meaning to fling every limb as
far from the torso as possible while maintaining as little equilibrium
as possible.
[Dave] Benser on moshing: “Normally we have a pit. In the
pit, you mosh. It’s an aggressive-type dance. The object
is to be as off balance as you can. The one who is most off balance
is the best. You kick your feet and kick your legs and move your
arms all about and shake your whole body. You can usually mosh
during the slower songs, and you slam during the fast parts. A
slam is just complete chaos.”
To slam: a verb meaning to ricochet bodily off
anyone, everyone. A full-contact, interactive ritual essential
to heaviness.
Benser on slamming: “The first time you
see someone slam, you look and say, ‘Oh, that’s stupid.’
But the first time you actually do it . . . I remember the first
time I actually moshed. That was in 1985 at Nuclear Assault and
Overkill. The crowd was going crazy and I got involved. It just
kind of happened. It was kinda like a whirlpool and I got sucked
in. I’ve been moshing ever since. It’s a way of life,
I guess. I do it all the time.
“It lets you get the aggression
out. It makes you sweat a lot. It’s really a good time.
It may not sound like it’s all that fun. Banging bodies.
Football is not as aggressive. This is full contact. You’re
constantly in motion and constantly touching another person. With
football you’re not in on every play.
“It’s an incredible rush.
You’re always looking over your shoulder to make sure they
don’t dive on your head. There’s a real feeling of
brotherhood down there in the pit. [emphasis added] If someone
falls, they pick you back up. Most of the time people catch you.
Now and then you go somewhere and people are real amateurs. They
don’t know what’s going on. They see someone flying
through the air and they move.”
To dive: a verb meaning to fly, preferably from
a stage.
Benser on diving: “We must be airborne.
Oh, the feeling of a dive. That’s one of the best feelings
in the world, ‘cause you have to trust people underneath
of you to catch you. If they don’t, you get little black
elbows like I have now.” <18>
This full contact is, again, just so many ways
they invent to release the life-force. Back in the 20/20 clip
they showed a little bit of the chaotic dancing. It looked like
leaping demons.
You know, it’s like he said—you get
sucked in. I don’t think anybody in their right mind would
do it. But once they actually see their friends doing it, then
they try it. And it feels good because the light is rushing out
of their chakras and they continue. It’s sensual.
This is a fourteen-year-old—Patrick Gilmore
is his name—with a Slayer T-shirt with the inverted pentagram
over his heart. You really have to wonder. I mean, is he a Lightbearer
or a reembodied Atlantean? It’s hard to say. But if he’s
a Lightbearer, he’s being victimized.
This is Greg Rabinowitz. He’s nineteen,
in college. He doesn’t look like he’s into heavy metal,
does he? He is. He complains that when he goes to concerts that
he’s ostracized because he doesn’t wear costumes like
everyone else. When they pass out literature they don’t
even give him any because they say, “Oh, you don’t
need any of this.”
This brings us to our next group—Dark Angel.
That’s their logo. Notice the bat wings. There’s the
complete album cover. Now, this is death metal again. This particular
group is preoccupied with nuclear war. All their songs are about
the end of the world, nuclear war. There’s a song on there
about Nostradamus. It’s really too long for me to play but
basically it’s a fatalistic acceptance of the prophecies
of Nostradamus, with no attempt to change them. And it’s
a reveling in the death and the destruction that is prophesied.
The song that I’m going to play now is
called “Darkness Descends,” which is the name of the
album. The chorus of this song is an astral decree in the extreme,
even though these songs are all astral decrees. The way he repeats
the chorus and the way that he says it is a misuse of the science
of the spoken Word. So I’ll read the words. And by the way,
whoever is the lyricist is not just some teenager. He is very
sophisticated. I mean, I had to look up some of these words in
the dictionary.
Fear
The world now stands ancient, showing her age
Antique, senile, archaic
Peroration impending, not one to assuage
The human remnants of earth
Pandemic winds chill the soul
Eradication of the will
Nihilism extracts its toll
Frightening the meekly servile
Sacrosanct, the religious ones
Are fast becoming extinct
Chaotic precursors of what will befall
Permeate the night air
The fear of the end preys on the minds
Of all the soon-to-be dead
With death at the hands of a hideous fiend
A grisly fate to comprehend
Now, this is the astral decree part here.
Death
This city is guilty
The crime is life
The sentence is death
Darkness descends
This is repeated over and over again in the
song:
This city is guilty
The crime is life
The sentence is death
Darkness descends
It goes on—
Fire
Internal combustion, plutonic rage
The bodies create their own hell
The flame from within, unleashed from its cage
Purging the great sins of all
Admissions of guilt are all that are sought
By judges who have twisted laws
The quick abrogation of the populace
Striking with great enmity
Listing the ways in which we will die
As the prophets claim we will soon
Self-immolation that’s unjustified
Stygian shores ahead loom
The coffins are ready, the death warrant signed
Depression has swiftly set in
Inimical powers against humankind
This charnelhouse ensanguined
Mortis
Decaying, the ruins fall swift to the ground
The carnage is morbid and great
Mephitic deathstench of corpses abound
The earth meets an untimely fate
The horrific malignance, spreading its wings
Across the expanse of the sky
Contamination and all that it brings
The judges commit genocide
Retaliation, a useless ploy
We’ve gazed into the face of fear
We know that it stands for our own bitter end
The end we realize is now here
The claws of denouement grasp at our lungs
Asphyxiation rules supreme
The future of mankind cut down while they’re young
Our children die clutching their dreams...
The theme of this song is death, nuclear war,
hopelessness—it is useless to retaliate, useless to defend
ourselves, there’s nothing we can do. So I’ll play
a little piece of “Darkness Descends” by Dark Angel
now. [Excerpt of “Darkness Descends” played] I wanted
you to notice how in the beginning of that song it started out
slower and then it changed to this fast beat which is called “speed
metal.” No one played like that any more than five years
ago. I had never heard anything like that before I started doing
my research. The speed of it has a pummeling effect. You hear
this and you just feel like you’re being beat up. It’s
constant.
One thing I noticed is that the kick drum, the
bass drum, is hitting every beat—and that’s also unusual
—as well as numerous other drums. But that constant, constant
beating on your chakras is really something that is a more serious
offense to the Light and it causes the protective membrane, which
I discussed earlier, to rupture sooner than it would with lighter
rock.
I think that rock and roll just gets more destructive
by the year. And it takes less time for the Lightbearers to have
their sheath torn and to let the astral through into the physical.
Now as never before it’s happening in record time.
There’s another song by Dark Angel called
“Perish in Flames”—again about nuclear war,
this time talking about it actually happening instead of talking
about the fear of it. It reads:
Your orders are given, the time for destruction
is now
They’ll give you no reason, you’ll
be the first so be proud
They’ve tracked you on radar, the fighters will lead to
attack
The terror will freeze you,
because you know you might not make it back
Gods of war have gone insane
You’ve played with fire, you’re to blame
Perish in flames
Perish in flames
Take a stand for what is right
Time is now so make the fight
Perish in flames
Die in flames, DIE!!
You’ve locked onto target, the missiles stand ready tolaunch
Your mind bleeds in terror, destination lines up in path
Your final descent, the bird of prey unleashes its wrath
You’ve pulled the trigger, the world goes insane so you
laugh.
We’ll play that now. [Excerpt of “Perish
in Flames” by Dark Angel played]
You know, we have so many psychologists talking
about nuclear fear in children. Well, we don’t need a psychologist
to tell us where today’s teens get their fear of nuclear
war! This fear of war breaks down the will. The point must be
made: Totalitarianism is worse than nuclear war!
I cited in my New Year’s Day lecture “Apathy
in America” that there have been 190 million people killed
by World Communism in this century. This is totalitarianism. And
in World War II and all the wars in this century 60 million have
died. <19> So which is worse?
The apocalypse described in “Darkness Descends”
fits a Soviet takeover much better than an all-out nuclear war.
A surgical nuclear strike would be a part of Soviet takeover,
as has been said. The slow death, burning and asphyxiation described
might be from radiation or it could be death in a concentration
camp. Solzhenitsyn mentioned live burial and drowning as Soviet
mass-execution methods. “Darkness Descends” also fits
chemical or bacteriological warfare.
Teenagers are being given a message of nihilism—that
nothing can prevent what is to come. In fact, t is this very attitude
of paralyzing fear that will bring the events to pass. And it
is the beat of the music itself that acts as a psychic carrier
wave for Soviet psychotronic warfare. It is the message of hopelessness
and death that the Soviet psychics have been directing at America
for decades, and this death metal becomes the anchor point in
the physical for their mind manipulation of the American people.
It is highly doubtful that without rock music
the Soviet psychics could have had any effect on Americans. The
protective shield between the physical and the astral planes of
the planet has been broken down by rock and roll in America. And
the astral plane (which corresponds to the emotions and the subconscious
mind) is the medium through which the Soviet psychics project
the vibrations which cause depression, suicide and nihilism.
But it’s not just heavy metal, it’s
all types of rock that provide this anchor point for what we call
the International Capitalist/Communist Conspiracy. Just in case
you doubt this, let’s examine an album of mainstream rock
from the mid-seventies. The album is Hotel California.
Now, we all know that the Eagles were an innocent
band from California. Homegrown American boys playing nice party
music for a fun-loving people, right? Wrong. “Hotel California,”
according to David Tame in his soon-to-be-published book Rock
and Role, is the place where the Church of Satan was started.
Not only that, but when you look on the inside
of this album you see that in addition to the Eagles, the band
members who are in the center there, the crowd is made up of witches,
homosexuals and other people of a lower vibration who you wouldn’t
want to be associated with. Not only that. If you look up in the
middle window on the balcony there, you can see none other than
Anton LaVey. Here’s another shot, which is a little out
of focus. Because of the dot structure of the litho you can see
it a little bit better out of focus.
So we have the song “Hotel California,”
which sold millions of copies, and to many it’s just an
innocent song which doesn’t mean anything. But to me it
means a lot. So I will read now the lyrics to “Hotel California”:
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
‘This could be Heaven or this could be Hell’
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (such a lovely face)
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year, you can find it here
Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes
bends
She got a lot pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat,
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
So I called up the Captain,
‘Please bring me my wine’
He said, ‘We haven’t had that spirit here since nineteen
sixty nine.’
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (such a lovely face)
They livin’ it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis
Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said, ‘We are all just prisoners here, of our own
device’
And in the master’s chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can’t kill the beast
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
‘Relax,’ said the night man,
‘We are programmed to receive.
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.’
I can’t think of any physical event that
this song would be describing other than a blood sacrifice. (“They
stab it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill
the beast.”) “We haven’t had that spirit
here since nineteen sixty-nine” could refer to the presence
of none other than LaVey himself on the balcony. And the rest
of it, there’s innuendo all the way along—”This
could be Heaven, this could be Hell.”
You know, why was this person drawn into this
hotel as he was cruising along the road? It’s the allure
of Death and Hell. That’s the way I interpret it. “We
are all prisoners here, of our own device” is
talking about the fact that most souls would not knowingly choose
the left-handed path, but many are seduced by its glamour and
choose it inadvertently. Then they’re hooked by their own
desires. And, of course, the part “You can check out any
time you like, but you can never leave” is the trap, once
they’ve sprung it.
This rock and the Satanism in it has influenced
our leaders and it’s in the mainstream. And it’s influencing
people who never heard of heavy metal. These satanistic references
are on the radio every day. In fact, I heard that Gary Hart met
Donna Rice at a party at the residence of Don Henley, who is a
member of the Eagles. So where can we find our next generation
of leaders? Gary Hart could very well have been president. If
he had been listening to this group and if he were still listening
to this type of music, do you think he would be open to the divine
solutions to the problems that face us?
The next group I am going to talk about is Suicidal
Tendencies. Their album is called Join the Army. And this is a
very low caricature of Uncle Sam on the cover—”I Want
You to Join the Army.” The lyrics of this song, which I
am going to read but not play, is another dictation from the suicide
entity, which even makes a subtle reference to the influence of
the Soviet psychics. To some of you this connection to Soviet
psychics may be weak, but to me it is abundantly clear. The song
is called “Suicidal Maniac.”
A birth that came from more than sound
Now rages on from town to town
A giant grows more every day
And now the Maniac is here to stay
A feeling you can’t kill
It’s the power, it’s a will
Controls your thoughts but you can’t see
Just when you thought it safe he suddenly appears
He feels no pain, he has no mercy or no fears
He gives the message and your mind is filled with blue
And now the Maniac lives inside of you
He’s back. The Suicidal Maniac
Each day he grows more and more
He’s bigger now than ever before
His thoughts he’ll compromise on never
He can’t be stopped. He’ll live forever
Blast away through the mind
A power of another kind
A presence that is growing out of sound
And now it’s come, the time the Maniac
I’ll meet
He takes my hand and now I bow down to his feet
His love for me is like a father to a son
And now the Maniac and I are one
I bow to his might
Too powerful to fight
It’s my destiny
Now the Maniac lives inside of me
He’s back
An army at his command
A strength that you can’t comprehend
A force unknown can now be told
The power of the world he holds
A feeling you can’t kill
It’s the power. It’s the will
Controls your thoughts but you can’t see
Just when you thought it safe he suddenly appears
He feels no pain, he has no mercy or no fears
He gives the message and your mind is filled
with blue
And now the Maniac’s a part of you
And the time has come. The Maniac you’ll meet
He takes your hand and now you bow down to his feet
His love for you is like a father to a son
And now the Maniac and you are one
He’s back—and he’s a Suicidal
Maniac.
I don’t know where to start with that.
The whole thing is a description of the suicide entity taking
over a soul. And we have the first line—”A birth that
came from more than sound.” Now, we know that sound is the
power of creation. In fact, we even know that the seed of the
Wicked One used the rock beat to create their slave race.
What is this “more than sound” that
is referred to? To me, it is vibration, energy, and I see it as
the
link to the Soviet psychics. What has brought suicide into America
besides rock music?—Soviet psychics and their psychotronic
warfare. They amplify what’s bothering us and multiply it
till many simply can’t cope. They no longer have the will
to live to fight.
There are undoubtedly multiple and complex causes
for suicide in our national psyche but, in addition, consider
the phrases “controls your thoughts but you can’t
see” and “he gives the message and your mind is filled
with blue.” To me, this is a reference to psychic mind manipulation.
Consider that on the astral plane the suicide
entities (demons and discarnates) are working to steal the Light
of the Children of God and the Soviets are working on the astral
with their psychics to break down American will. The two factions
can be seen to have a common enemy—the Lightbearers. Both
have everything to gain by spilling the Light (Christ consciousness)
of America. We also know that all of Death and Hell are working
through the Soviet Union to destroy freedom on this planet. So
again, things equal to the same thing are equal to one another.
And just to make sure that there will be no young
patriotic Americans left, even the urge to defend our nation is
exploited in this album. With the title “Join the Army,”
the single is a low-down parody of a marine recruiting song. It
implores the youth to march to the “suicidal beat”
and to join the army of “suicidal rock.”
Now, it’s an obvious and acknowledged fact
even by the musicians themselves that rock music in our society
today is the most powerful force for social change. Frank Zappa
said that. It’s affected our entire way of life. Although
astrologically, rock came in on December 31, 1959, as I said earlier,
a few “pioneers” were already rocking in 1956. The
sixties moved on to folk rock and early political rock.
With rock America lost its first major war—Vietnam.
We had never lost a war before. Rock made us spineless as a nation.
We’ve never won a war since except Grenada, and that really
wasn’t a war.
We won Grenada because of Oliver North, because he planned it
and it was covert and we didn’t have the media there to
stop it! Now, of course, North is being crucified for his other
patriotic and covert actions.
Rock has made it impossible for us to win anything.
The most important force for winning battles is the will to fight.
That is why combatants engage in propaganda campaigns and leafleting
against their enemies. These tactics seem quaint when compared
with the massive aural and psychic assault being waged on the
Lightbearers of America through today’s rock music. It has
completely demoralized our youth and removed their will to fight.
And there’s a reason for that. The syncopated
4/4 beat is a perversion of the 4/4 martial time of the base-of-the-spine
chakra. Whereas the march time is the measured rhythm of the rising
Kundalini fire, the syncopated 4/4 causes the exact opposite.
It lowers the Kundalini. It actually drives it down —thus
draining the upper chakras and the spine of the vital life-force
of the Divine Mother.
The accumulation of the energy in the base chakra—which
is naturally distributed throughout the body through the chakras,
through the central nervous system—causes a buildup which
may be released through violence, anger, sexual promiscuity and
the black arts. The end result being that the will to be, to create,
and to defend one’s right to so be and to so create exists
no more. Thus the defense of freedom and of life are missing from
today’s vacant youth.
So we come again to this concept of transference.
This song, “Join the Army,” advocates joining the
suicidal army. Instead of being in the army fighting for life,
our teenagers are encouraged to join the juggernaut of rock, marching
toward self-destruction. Here are the lyrics:
I got a story to tell, now listen up real well
Pay attention this way to what I got to say
Took it to the street, rap to the people we meet
Now we’re rocking out hard, to the Suicidal beat
Tried to deny our right, so we put up a fight
Just doing our thang, they tried to call it a gang
Saw the way we look, that’s all that it took
That’s all she wrote, they had their scapegoat
Dressed down, Homeboyz, minority—Join the
Army
We’re the few, we’re the proud, we
like to jam it loud
The music we play, won’t have it any other way
We’re armed to the bone with our music and our tone
Recruiting on the street, with the sound of our beat
Growing larger every day, and everytime we play
Don’t need no college plan, we’re just a hard-rocking
band
We like our music to please, but we ain’t gonna appease
No pressure’s too much, to make us change our touch
Hardcore, Metal, the New Wave
We’re not a gang—Join the Army
Don’t be no fool, don’t let your
prejudice rule
Don’t judge by your fear, judge us by your ear
Can’t believe every word, of every story that you’ve
heard
Just play the song, I know you’ll start to rock along
Well I don’t care, ‘bout the clothes you wear
It’s the size of your heart, not the length of your hair
Don’t make no difference to me, the color that you be
Black, white or brown, it’s all the same to me
Well if you still don’t believe, you best
get up and leave
Do what you must do, but this ain’t the place for you
You got no right, but if you start a fight
We’ll be rockin your head, but with our fists instead
I’ll fight it with the band, right down
till the end
Ask anyone I’ve met, this ain’t no idle threat
Don’t flap no fit, and it won’t come to this
Bust as for me, I’m down with the Army
New York, London, Venice
Why join a gang?
Join the Army
Suicidal Rock—Join the Army
Suicidal Rock—Join the Army
Suicidal Rock—Join the Army
Suicidal Rock—Join the Army
Suicidal Rock—I WANT YOU TO Join the Army
So we’ll play part of that now. [Excerpt
of “Join the Army” by Suicidal Tendencies played]
The back cover of the album is the high altar of suicide. Here
you see the character that was depicted on the front of the album
as a Rambo-type figure with a machine gun. He’s now dead—impaled
and dismembered on the suicidal altar. Another part of the album
is mostly just contorted faces in despair in a collage. So that’s
Suicidal Tendencies.
Now we’ll move on to Dirty Rotten Imbeciles.
Better known as D.R.I., they’re quite popular. Makes you
wonder. This is more death metal. It’s aimed at the destruction
of society. And it casts the Americans as the imbeciles. It’s
very insulting. It also deals a lot with nuclear war. The first
song that I am going to talk about is called “Tear It Down.”
Listen to these words:
Fighting this society there’s only
One way to win
We must stick together through
All thick and thin
Cross over the line of
Your stubborn closed mind
Don’t be surprised at what
You might find
Things you thought wrong may have
Always been right
You’ll probably find fault
In your reasons to fight
You really don’t differ from
What I can see
Ain’t it time to unite or is it just me?
Just as we watch them
Build this empire
So they shall watch us tear it down
If not with your words then with
The power of our sound!
We are the future so
Let’s get things straight
Combine our forces
Before it’s too late
Fighting ourselves
Can’t go on any longer
We must fight together
If we want to grow stronger
We can tear it down
We must tear it down
We will tear it down
So we’ll play that now. [Excerpt of “Tear
It Down” by Dirty Rotten Imbeciles played] Before Mother
even heard that song she commented to me that all heavy metal
and rock in general has the message of “tear it down.”
And this song is just the crystallization of what was already
there. Listening to Suicidal Tendencies from the next room while
I was doing this research, she said, “It’s as if there
were a subliminal in this, and what it would be saying all the
time, inaudibly, is ‘tear down, tear down, tear down, tear
down.’ That’s how it vibrates to me.” And this
was the other music, not “Tear It Down” that you just
heard.
So in the next song we have an actual simulated
nuclear attack. It’s called “Oblivion.” It begins
with an air raid siren and the sound of a crowd screaming in terror.
You hear the sound of a nuclear bomb being dropped from a plane
and instead of the explosion, the music begins with a violent
crash of drums and electric guitar. I’ll read you the lyrics:
The day has come
The time is near
For all to end
It’s true, it’s here
It’s all over now
No way to stop
The button’s been pushed
The bomb’s been dropped
The city is melting
The sky burns red
The ocean is boiling
We’ll soon be dead
Death has come knocking
The door’s open wide
He’s let himself in
No place to hide
A tidal wave of power
Coming over the hill
A great wall of thunder
Swooping down for the kill
Leveling, destroying
Everything in its path
Just seconds left now
Till we feel its wrath
People run rabid
From the great blast
The Beast is upon us
It’s here at last
The streets echo screams
Filled with fear
All through the universe
But no one will hear!
[Excerpt of “Oblivion” by Dirty
Rotten Imbeciles played] This is how our twelve-year-olds relate
to nuclear war. That’s it. That’s all there is. They
never heard of Thomas Krebs or Danny Graham or High Frontier or
any of the speakers whom we’ve heard Mother interview at
Summit University Forum who’ve told us the real story. This
is why we have no will to prepare to fight nuclear war, if necessary,
and to remain free. This is it. I mean, you don’t need to
look any further than these lyrics and this sound because what
you grow up on you internalize and it becomes a part of you.
And if the youth internalize this song, they’ve
lived it, and they are already dead (so to speak) because they
‘died’ in the attack. They’re psychologically
dead from that time on—from the time they’ve heard
this song. It’s the explosion of the base chakra. It’s
the ultimate hatred of the Divine Mother. It’s just like
putting a nuclear bomb on the base chakra of the Mother to blow
up her womb so she cannot bear the Divine Manchild—and in
this case the Mother is America, the Motherland.
This is from Revelation 12.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great
red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns
upon his heads.
And his tail drew the third part of the stars
of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood
before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour
her child as soon as it was born....
And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto
the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man
child....
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water
as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried
away of the flood....
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and
went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the
commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
The rock music you’ve been hearing is
the ‘water’ (i.e., astral sewer) that the dragon cast
out of his mouth “as a flood.” Rock music is the open
warfare declared by the seed of Darkness against the remnant of
the seed of the Woman. This was prophesied. People should have
seen it coming when Elvis Presley arrived on the scene. The furor
that was raised over Presley in the 1960s has today become the
worship of a fallen angel.
Today’s parents think today’s music
is “harmless” and they allow their children to continue
to listen to it, to continue to destroy themselves and in the
process they are building a future generation which has no will
to defend our nation against a nuclear attack. It is all-out war
against the Lightbearers.
If we want to know where nuclear fear is coming
from, we should look at the rock bands, not at our government,
and certainly not at our military. Some psychologists have even
said that we shouldn’t teach children about nuclear war
because it will incite fear in them. But we let them listen to
the music.
So I think, as parents, we should teach children
early the facts about what’s really going on. And if they
are going to get caught up in this death metal, which sometimes
parents are helpless to prevent, at least they will have the early
teaching from their fathers and mothers that they can refer back
to when and if they regain their senses.
ECP: The comment that El Morya made about “Oblivion”
is that it is an attack on the heart and on the threefold flame.
It is the bombardment of the physical heart and the disruption
of the heartbeat, which disrupts the ability of the soul to attune
with the threefold flame in the secret chamber of the heart.
One of the things that Saint Germain and El Morya
taught me in December concerning death is that the projection
of death has no power over you unless it can get you to accept
death. So they begin with the projection that you are going to
die, which is what all this death metal is—”You are
going to die by nuclear war.” It pounds into you by this
irregular beat—the syncopated beat that is the perversion
of the 4/4 time of the base chakra, as you said.
So, once you have accepted that you are going
to die, then you are wide open through the heart chakra for your
death by the disruption of the heartbeat. And Jesus said that
in these days men’s hearts would fail them for fear. <20>
And it’s through the rock beat that the heart is destroyed
and death enters. Death cannot enter your life if you do not give
in to it and accept it. And the projection of the Death entity
who comes in many guises works very, very hard on people, even
apart from rock music, to get them to accept death.
To me this is a planetary plot. A large percentage
of this nation is accepting nuclear death because this music—the
fastest growing segment of the rock industry—is entering
the psyche at the subconscious level. You are absorbing the message
subconsciously even when you’re not aware of it. And so
you are not consciously counteracting it.
SCP: In fact, even as we sit here we’re
probably absorbing radio waves that are being transmitted which
we have no control over. And I don’t know how they affect
the body physically. But I know that on a spiritual and astral
level the constant playing twenty-four hours a day of this music,
especially in the big cities but even out here in Montana, has
a lot to do with our loss of will even though we are unwilling
participants. Because even if we decide to tune it out, it still
passes through us.
So the good news is I don’t have any more
heavy metal songs to play! But I do have some more slides and
a video promo that has heavy metal imagery and I am also going
to tell you about the record companies. So we continue.
This is the back cover of the Dirty Rotten Imbeciles’
album. It looks to me like it has a black widow spider in the
middle of it. This shows what they think of America. It says,
“Imbeciles of America,” and
it has everyone holding up placards with pictures of imbeciles
on them. That’s from their insert inside
of their album. They had many more little cartoons but I thought
that was one you should see.
Now we come to the record companies. You wonder
who’s behind all this. Well, here we go.
Combat Records, Death Records, and Suicidal Records, which is
the record company for Suicidal Tendencies. And then we have the
record company which is responsible for a large portion of the
heavy metal and that is Metal Blade Records.
So I’d like to play you a video promo now
for some of these albums. This is the Combat Rock promo. [“Combat
Visual Catalogue” video played]
Major Mayhem (Paul Aaronson): OK. Listen up,
you brain-dead mongers. You want to be metal heads, you gotta
listen to the right metal, right? OK, here’s your basic
training.
Now, pay attention ‘cause my name is Major
Mayhem. And it’s my job to turn you goons into proper combat
metal troops, no matter how sniveling and weak you are. OK, now
that we got that straight, grab these combat discs and stick ‘em
between your ears. You got Venom, Possessed, Exodus, Bonded by
Blood, and Slayer, Hell Awaits. This is the death metal squadron.
Ride with these guys and the Devil is your co-pilot.
All right, so you mastered death, now you’re
ready to try special forces—the combat T-squad to you goons.
Talas, Live Speed and Sink Your Teeth, Tokyo Blade, Midnight Rendezvous
and Night of the Blade, and TKO, In Your Face. These boys specialize
in administering violence with taste.
Now, these next guys you don’t want to
mess with—the combat rangers. Megadeth, Killing Is My Business,
Abattoir, Vicious Attack, and Sabotage, Dungeons. If there’s
a dirty job to be done, you send in the rangers and pray to God
you live.
The combat army marches with a strong infantry.
Get your combat boots stompin’ with OZ, Fire in the Brain
and III Warning, the Rods, Let Them Eat Metal and The Rods Live,
and Merciful Faith, Don’t Break the Oath, Trouble, the Skull,
and Action, Look Out for the Night. Any of these divisions can
pulverize your pea-sized brain.
And finally there’s the combat ultra assassin
squad. Oh, my God! So hideous, even I don’t get too near
them. Impaler, Rise of the Mutants.
OK, pinheads, that’s your basic training
[yelling and screaming in the background] in combat metal. You
can thank your lucky stars we’ve trained your ears in the
finest metal wealth in the whole of the U.S. of A. Combat Records.
Your next phase of training will include Exciter, Possessed, Thrasher,
Running Wild, Nasty Savage, and the dangerous agent Steele. Hallow’s
Eve.
Remember, bang your head till you’re dead.
Dismissed!
You will notice that all these fans are young
and that they’re all doing the Satanist mudra. That clip
was tacked onto the end of a heavy metal concert video. These
videos are available to children of all ages—not just records
but videos. All the videoclips we’ve shown tonight, with
the exception of 20/20, were bought over the counter at suburban
record stores in upper middle-class neighborhoods.
Now, I’d like to go on to political heavy
metal, which I won’t play but I just want to talk a little
bit about it.
There’s a band called Corrosion of Conformity.
This is their album—Technocracy. This album did not include
the lyrics. And I tried to listen to the music and get some of
the lyrics but it was impossible. I couldn’t hear one word
in any of the songs. But I did get out of the inside an insert,
an order form for T-shirts. And I’ll read you what the T-shirts
say.
Now, this one says, “American dollars and
weapons gleam, support another corrupt regime. Human rights long
out of style, another killing, another farce trial. Intervention,
all the millions spent in aid, spent on war parade. Technological
march of death, finalize a child’s last breath. Intervention,
warmongers in search of victims, make their mark in history, as
the children die of asphyxiation. Another child killed for political
position. Intervention, we ain’t gonna study war no more.
Stop funding war in Central America. No more murder in our name.”
This is T-shirt #2. It has, again, the symbol
for Death Records. I believe that the logo represents a symbol
for radiation. And the text says, “They rip the flesh from
our mother’s breast / Because the War Machine runs on high
test. / Greedy fools don’t have the sense / To leave the
radiation where it rests.”
This is supposed to be profound. It’s more
anti-American rhetoric. And these are “nice boys”
from North Carolina.
That is the end of our heavy metal section. Thank
you.
This lecture by Sean C. Prophet was delivered on Thursday, July
2, 1987, at FREEDOM 1987 in the Heart of the Inner Retreat at
the Royal Teton Ranch, Montana. It was edited for print by Sean
C. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet for this week’s Pearl
with material taken from a lecture delivered by the Messenger
on February 21, 1982.
* The vibration of the Fifth Ray ranges from
an emerald green to a Chinese green tinged in gold. It is the
path of scientists, healers, exponents of truth, music, and mathematics
in all fields. The bottomless pit is a deep canyon in the lowest
level of the astral plane, called hell, where fallen angels are
incarcerated.
1. Nephilim. Hebrew “those who fell”
or “those who were cast down,” from the Semitic root
naphal “to fall,” rendered in the Greek Septuagint,
a late translation of the Hebrew scriptures, as “giants”
(Gen. 6:4; Num. 13:33).
2. See “Prologue on the Sons of Jared”
(taken from the Second Book of Adam and Eve), in Forbidden Mysteries
of Enoch: The Untold Story of Men and Angels, pp. 354-59.
3. augmented by the full complement of Martian
misqualification of energy: aggression, anger, arrogance, argumentation,
aggravation, annihilation, aggressive mental suggestion, anti-Americanism,
anti-Father, anti-Mother, anti-Christ, and anti-Holy Spirit energies.
4. See Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet,
The Lost Teachings of Jesus II, p. 13.
5. See Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet,
The Lost Teachings of Jesus I, pp. 3-19.
6. Matt. 11:12.
7. John 1:1, 3.
8. The work done on the string may be computed
with the formula Work = Force x Distance. Assuming a force of
1 ounce on the guitar string and a string displacement of .25
inches we obtain
9. Rev. 8:13; 9; 11:13, 14.
10. John 8:23.
11. Edgar Evans Cayce, Edgar Cayce on Atlantis,
ed. Hugh Lynn Cayce (New York: Warner Books, 1968), pp. 74-77.
12. Hydra. The Lernaean Hydra was a many-headed
monster in Greek mythology slain by Hercules (his second labor).
According to one version of the myth the Hydra had 8 or 9 heads,
one of them immortal. Some even credit the monster with 50, 100
or even 10,000 heads. The Hydra terrorized Lerna, a holy district
on the coast of Greece 5 miles from the city of Argos, until Hercules
was sent to kill it. Each time Hercules cut off a head, however,
2 or 3 grew in its place until Hercules’ charioteer Iolaus
cauterized their roots with firebrands. Then Hercules severed
the immortal head using a sword, or a golden falchion, and buried
it, still hissing. According to Virgil’s Aeneid, the Hydra
was also a source of underground rivers which used to burst out
and flood the land. If one of its numerous channels was blocked,
the water broke through elsewhere. Hercules first used fire to
dry the ground and then closed the channels.
13. Jane Leavy, “The Decibel Disciples:
Young-at-Heart Headbangers and Their Heavy Metal Way of Life,”
Washington Post, 4 June 1987, sec. C.
14. David Gelman et al., “Depression,”
Newsweek, 4 May 1987, pp. 48-52, 54, 57.
15. Walt Harrington, “The Devil in Anton
LaVey,” Washington Post Magazine, 23 February 1986.
16. Extremely Low Frequency. Radio waves in the
10-hertz range which are known to affect human health and behavior.
17. Shem hameforash. Hebrew for “the complete
name of God,” known as the Explicit Name, or the Ineffable
Name.
18. Leavy, “The Decibel Disciples.”
19. See p. 45, par. 7; p. 48, par. 1; p. 71,
n. 8.
20. Luke 21:25, 26.
DISCOGRAPHY
Combat Tour Live: The Ultimate Revenge. Slayer,
“I Am the Antichrist”; “Venom Interview Part
1”; Venom, “Witching Hour”; and “Combat
Visual Catalogue.” Combat Records MXV 8038, 1985. Videocassette.
Dark Angel. “Darkness Descends” and
“Perish in Flames.” Darkness Descends. Combat Records
88561-8114-2, 1986.
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles. “Tear It Down”
and “Oblivion.” Crossover. Restless/Death Records
72201-1, 1987.
Eagles. “Hotel California.” Hotel
California. Asylum Records 6E- 103, 1976.
Megadeth. “The Skull beneath the Skin.”
Killing Is My Business—-. Combat Records MX 8015, 1985.
Metallica. “Fight Fire with Fire,”
“Ride the Lightning” and “Fade to Black.”
Ride the Lightning. Elektra Records 60396-2, 1984.
Slayer. “The Antichrist,” “Evil
Has No Boundaries,” “Haunting the Chapel” and
“Captor of Sin.” Show No Mercy. Restless/Metal Blade
Records 71034-2, 1987.
Suicidal Tendencies. “Suicidal Maniac”
and “Join the Army.” Join the Army. Caroline Records
CD 1336, 1987.
“The Children of Heavy Metal.” Corr.
Stone Phillips. Prod. Danny Schechter. 20/20. ABC, 21 May 1987. |