Beginner’s Guide to Satanic Symbols
Origins and Meanings of Key Occult Symbols Explained…
Hurdy Gurdy by Christopher Wilson
This book has been sat on my shelf for a LOT longer than I’d care to admit, and in all honestly, I have big regrets about not reading it sooner…
80 Years Of The Church Of Satan
An 80-year retrospective on the Church of Satan, tracing how Anton LaVey’s original philosophy evolved into a fragmented cultural force shaped by the Satanic Panic, subculture, and the rise of the Temple of Satan
All Hail the Goat
Goats are one of the most recognisable symbols in Satanic imagery — from medieval depictions of the Devil to the modern figure of Baphomet. But how did an ordinary farm animal become so closely associated with sin and the demonic?
Jorvik Viking Festival: Nordicness, Metal and Politics of the Past
I finally made it to the Jorvik Viking march this year…
“On This Battlefield, No One Wins”: Iron Maiden’s Construction of War, Morality, and the Sound of Evil in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal
How Iron Maiden sonically constructs war as a form of evil and how that construction, both musical and thematic, contributed to the NWOBHM’s aesthetic legacy and the globalisation of heavy metal.