Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Jalan jalan : batam d2
Oke, hari ini kita jalan menuju NAGOYA HILL, tempat perbelanjaan yang cukup bagus dengan tamu tamu lokal, domestik, dan asing. dengan ukuran yang cukup luas dapat menampung food court yang luas, arena permainan, dan tempat perbelanjaan tentunya. pada atrium utama sedang diadakan obral pakaian yang didiskon 50% ampe 70%. dan dengan tema puasa dan lebaran secara sekarang dalam suasana bulan ramadhan a.k.a puasa. mall seluas 4 lantai ini terdiri dari 1 lantai parkir pd bag. atap dan sisanya tempat perbelanjaan. diisi oleh barang barang kw3,kw2,kw1,asli,palsu, dan BM membuat mall ini dikunjungi oleh khalayak ramai. sekian dulu tuk hari ini.
Jalan jalan : batam D1
7AM: Departed with Lion Air
8AM: Arrived at Hang Nadim Airport
Then, we went 2 sista's house @ sagulung district in the front of the GOR Bulutangkis Batu Aji by DAMRI bus. We passed my friend's house @ Taman Dutamas near The airport. The view to the location are great. There are rocks, lake, industrial park, malls, hotels and constructions. Last, we arrived there.
8AM: Arrived at Hang Nadim Airport
Then, we went 2 sista's house @ sagulung district in the front of the GOR Bulutangkis Batu Aji by DAMRI bus. We passed my friend's house @ Taman Dutamas near The airport. The view to the location are great. There are rocks, lake, industrial park, malls, hotels and constructions. Last, we arrived there.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Homoseksualitas
Salah satu bentuk penyimpangan seksual atau "Sexual Deviation" ialah "Homoseksualitas". Bentuk penyimpangan ini adalah yang paling banyak dan sering dijumpai disamping bentuk-bentuk penyimpangan lain misalnya sadisme, voyeurisme dsb. Pelbagai faktor yang amat kompleks, faktor fisik (organobiologik), faktor psikologi kepribadian dan sosial kultural menjadikan seseorang individu itu mengalami penyimpangan di bidang perkembangan seksualnya, atau yang lebih mendalam lagi penyimpangan dalam bidang psikoseksual.
Masalah homoseksualitas itu tidak saja merupakan problem bagi individu yang bersangkutan, tetapi juga merupakan masalah sosial sebagaimana sedang dihadapi oleh negara-negara Barat misalnya Inggris dan Amerika Serikat. Sehubungan dengan hal di atas perlu kiranya direnungkan apa yang oleh Kusumanto pernah diutarakan dalam papernya "Homosexuality", bahwa apakah benar “people of the highest cultural standard are found to be homosexual” ? Tulisan ini saya susun berdasarkan pengalaman dengan beberapa pasien bangsa Indonesia sehubungan dengan penyimpangan psikoseksual yang sedang dialaminya.
Sebagai pendahuluan akan dikemukalan pengertian homoseksualitas itu, agar dapat dibedakan homoseksualitas sebagai tindakan (kelakuan) hubungan seks sejenis, dan homoseksualitas dajuam arti kepribadian individu yang bersangkutan memang seorang homoseks.
Kusumanto mengemukakan definisi sebagai berikut : “homosexuality can be defined as the love and sexual attraction to persons of one's own sex.”
(bersambung)
Masalah homoseksualitas itu tidak saja merupakan problem bagi individu yang bersangkutan, tetapi juga merupakan masalah sosial sebagaimana sedang dihadapi oleh negara-negara Barat misalnya Inggris dan Amerika Serikat. Sehubungan dengan hal di atas perlu kiranya direnungkan apa yang oleh Kusumanto pernah diutarakan dalam papernya "Homosexuality", bahwa apakah benar “people of the highest cultural standard are found to be homosexual” ? Tulisan ini saya susun berdasarkan pengalaman dengan beberapa pasien bangsa Indonesia sehubungan dengan penyimpangan psikoseksual yang sedang dialaminya.
Sebagai pendahuluan akan dikemukalan pengertian homoseksualitas itu, agar dapat dibedakan homoseksualitas sebagai tindakan (kelakuan) hubungan seks sejenis, dan homoseksualitas dajuam arti kepribadian individu yang bersangkutan memang seorang homoseks.
Kusumanto mengemukakan definisi sebagai berikut : “homosexuality can be defined as the love and sexual attraction to persons of one's own sex.”
(bersambung)
Stockholm syndrome
In psychology, Stockholm syndrome is a term
used to describe a paradoxical psychological
phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation
and have positive feelings towards their captors
that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk
endured by the victims.[1][2] The FBI’s Hostage
Barricade Database System shows that roughly
27% of victims show evidence of Stockholm
syndrome.[3] The syndrome is named after the
Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at
Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, in which the bank
robbers held bank employees hostage from
August 23 to August 28, 1973. In this case, the
victims became emotionally attached to their
captors, and even defended them after they were
freed from their six-day ordeal. The term
"Stockholm Syndrome" was coined by the
criminologist and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot, who
assisted the police during the robbery, and
referred to the syndrome in a news broadcast.[4]
It was originally defined by psychiatrist Frank
Ochberg to aid the management of hostage
situations.[5]
Development
While there is still disagreement as to what
factors characterize incidents that contribute to
the development of Stockholm syndrome,
research has suggested that hostages may exhibit
the condition in situations that feature captors
who do not abuse the victim, a long duration
before resolution, continued contact between the
perpetrator and hostage, and a high level of
emotion. In fact, experts have concluded that the
intensity, not the length of the incident, combined
with a lot of physical abuse more likely will create
favorable conditions for the development of
Stockholm syndrome.[1]
The following are viewed as the conditions
necessary for Stockholm syndrome to occur.
Hostages who develop Stockholm syndrome
often view the perpetrator as giving life by
simply not taking it. In this sense, the captor
becomes the person in control of the captive ’s
basic needs for survival and the victim’s life
itself.[1]
The hostage endures isolation from other
people and has only the captor ’s perspective
available. Perpetrators routinely keep
information about the outside world ’s
response to their actions from captives to keep
them totally dependent.[1]
The hostage taker threatens to kill the victim
and gives the perception of having the
capability to do so. The captive judges it safer
to align with the perpetrator, endure the
hardship of captivity, and comply with the
captor than to resist and face murder.[1]
The captive sees the perpetrator as showing
some degree of kindness. Kindness serves as
the cornerstone of Stockholm syndrome; the
condition will not develop unless the captor
exhibits it in some form toward the hostage.
However, captives often misinterpret a lack of
abuse as kindness and may develop feelings of
appreciation for this perceived benevolence. If
the captor is purely evil and abusive, the
hostage will respond with hatred. But, if
perpetrators show some kindness, victims will
submerge the anger they feel in response to
the terror and concentrate on the captors’
“good side” to protect themselves.[1]
In cases where Stockholm syndrome has
occurred, the captive is in a situation where the
captor has stripped nearly all forms of
independence and gained control of the victim ’s
life, as well as basic needs for survival. Some
experts say that the hostage regresses to,
perhaps, a state of infancy; the captive must cry
for food, remain silent, and exist in an extreme
state of dependence. In contrast, the perpetrator
serves as a 'mother' figure protecting the 'child'
from a threatening outside world, including law
enforcement ’s deadly weapons. The victim then
begins a struggle for survival, both relying on
and identifying with the captor. Possibly,
hostages ’ motivation to live outweighs their
impulse to hate the person who created their
dilemma.[1][6]
In many cases, capture may also involve the
killing (or threat of killing) of the captive's relatives,
thereby isolating the captive. The captive is
subjected to isolation and so sees even a small
act, such as providing amenities, as a great
favour. Such captives may side with their captors
while believing their captors have conferred on
them great importance and love. Furthermore,
captives who perceive themselves as the only
members of their group not to have been killed
may believe that they have been shown a special
interest.[citation needed]
Psychoanalytic explanations
Stockholm syndrome is a psychological shift that
occurs in captives when they are threatened
gravely but are shown acts of kindness by their
captors. Captives who exhibit the syndrome tend
to sympathize with and think highly of their
captors. When subjected to prolonged captivity,
these captives can develop a strong bond with
their captors, in some cases including a sexual
interest.
Psychiatrist Frank Ochberg, widely credited with
Stockholm Syndrome's psychiatric definition,
describes it as "a primitive gratitude for the gift of
life," not unlike that felt by an infant.[7]
According to the psychoanalytic view of the
syndrome, this tendency might be the result of
employing the strategy evolved by newborn
babies to form an emotional attachment to the
nearest powerful adult in order to maximize the
probability that this adult will enable —at the very
least—the survival of the child, if not also prove to
be a good parental figure. This syndrome is
considered a prime example for the defense
mechanism of identification.[8]
Notable examples
Mary McElroy was kidnapped and held for
ransom in 1934 and released by her captors
unharmed. She described the incident as a
positive one and, when her captors were
apprehended and given harsh sentences
(including one death sentence), McElroy
defended them. According to reports, she
suffered from feelings of guilt concerning the
case which compromised her mental and
physical health. She took her own life in 1940.
Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the
Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974. After
two months in captivity, she actively took part
in a robbery they were orchestrating. Her
unsuccessful legal defense claimed that she
suffered from Stockholm syndrome and was
coerced into aiding the SLA. She was convicted
and imprisoned for her actions in the robbery,
though her sentence was commuted in
February 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, and
she received a Presidential pardon from
President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001
(among his last official acts before leaving
office).
Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted at age 11 by
Phillip & Nancy Garrido at a school bus stop in
1991 and was imprisoned at their residence for
18 years. In August 2009, Phillip brought
Nancy & Jaycee (who was living under the alias
"Alyssa") along with two girls that Garrido
fathered with Jaycee during her captivity, to be
questioned by Garrido's parole officer after he
noticed some suspicious behavior. She did not
reveal her identity when she was questioned
alone. Instead, she told investigators she was a
battered wife from Minnesota who was hiding
from her abusive husband, and described
Garrido as a "great person" who was "good
with her kids". Dugard has since admitted to
forming an emotional bond with Garrido with
great guilt and regret.[9]
Lima syndrome
An inverse of Stockholm syndrome called "Lima
syndrome" has been proposed, in which
abductors develop sympathy for their hostages.
It was named after an abduction at the Japanese
Embassy in Lima, Peru in 1996, when members
of a militant movement took hostage hundreds of
people attending a party in the official residence of
Japan's ambassador. Within a few hours, the
abductors had set free most of the hostages,
including the most valuable ones, due to
sympathy.[10][11]
In popular culture
In the "Bond movie" The World Is Not Enough,
James Bond deduces that Elektra King, the
female antagonist in the movie is affected by
Stockholm Syndrome.
The term Helsinki syndrome has been used
erroneously to describe Stockholm syndrome,
popularized by the movie Die Hard.[12]
There is a band and several albums and songs
called "Stockholm Syndrome".
The story tag of the 2010 Bollywood and
Kollywood movie, Raavan or Raavanan is
based on Stockholm Syndrome.
In the Simpsons episode "Blame it on Lisa"
Homer is kidnapped and his captors say that
he has developed Stockholm Syndrome.
In the British television series Spooks, an agent
Lucas North suffers from severe Stockholm
Syndrome; even after being repeatedly
tortured then confined alone for eight years.
In the Denzel Washington movie, John Q, his
character John Quincy Archibald takes a
hospital emergency room hostage, by the end
of the movie several hostages are rooting for
him to get a much needed heart transplant for
his son (showing signs of Stockholm
syndrome calling him "a very good man")
used to describe a paradoxical psychological
phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation
and have positive feelings towards their captors
that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk
endured by the victims.[1][2] The FBI’s Hostage
Barricade Database System shows that roughly
27% of victims show evidence of Stockholm
syndrome.[3] The syndrome is named after the
Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at
Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, in which the bank
robbers held bank employees hostage from
August 23 to August 28, 1973. In this case, the
victims became emotionally attached to their
captors, and even defended them after they were
freed from their six-day ordeal. The term
"Stockholm Syndrome" was coined by the
criminologist and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot, who
assisted the police during the robbery, and
referred to the syndrome in a news broadcast.[4]
It was originally defined by psychiatrist Frank
Ochberg to aid the management of hostage
situations.[5]
Development
While there is still disagreement as to what
factors characterize incidents that contribute to
the development of Stockholm syndrome,
research has suggested that hostages may exhibit
the condition in situations that feature captors
who do not abuse the victim, a long duration
before resolution, continued contact between the
perpetrator and hostage, and a high level of
emotion. In fact, experts have concluded that the
intensity, not the length of the incident, combined
with a lot of physical abuse more likely will create
favorable conditions for the development of
Stockholm syndrome.[1]
The following are viewed as the conditions
necessary for Stockholm syndrome to occur.
Hostages who develop Stockholm syndrome
often view the perpetrator as giving life by
simply not taking it. In this sense, the captor
becomes the person in control of the captive ’s
basic needs for survival and the victim’s life
itself.[1]
The hostage endures isolation from other
people and has only the captor ’s perspective
available. Perpetrators routinely keep
information about the outside world ’s
response to their actions from captives to keep
them totally dependent.[1]
The hostage taker threatens to kill the victim
and gives the perception of having the
capability to do so. The captive judges it safer
to align with the perpetrator, endure the
hardship of captivity, and comply with the
captor than to resist and face murder.[1]
The captive sees the perpetrator as showing
some degree of kindness. Kindness serves as
the cornerstone of Stockholm syndrome; the
condition will not develop unless the captor
exhibits it in some form toward the hostage.
However, captives often misinterpret a lack of
abuse as kindness and may develop feelings of
appreciation for this perceived benevolence. If
the captor is purely evil and abusive, the
hostage will respond with hatred. But, if
perpetrators show some kindness, victims will
submerge the anger they feel in response to
the terror and concentrate on the captors’
“good side” to protect themselves.[1]
In cases where Stockholm syndrome has
occurred, the captive is in a situation where the
captor has stripped nearly all forms of
independence and gained control of the victim ’s
life, as well as basic needs for survival. Some
experts say that the hostage regresses to,
perhaps, a state of infancy; the captive must cry
for food, remain silent, and exist in an extreme
state of dependence. In contrast, the perpetrator
serves as a 'mother' figure protecting the 'child'
from a threatening outside world, including law
enforcement ’s deadly weapons. The victim then
begins a struggle for survival, both relying on
and identifying with the captor. Possibly,
hostages ’ motivation to live outweighs their
impulse to hate the person who created their
dilemma.[1][6]
In many cases, capture may also involve the
killing (or threat of killing) of the captive's relatives,
thereby isolating the captive. The captive is
subjected to isolation and so sees even a small
act, such as providing amenities, as a great
favour. Such captives may side with their captors
while believing their captors have conferred on
them great importance and love. Furthermore,
captives who perceive themselves as the only
members of their group not to have been killed
may believe that they have been shown a special
interest.[citation needed]
Psychoanalytic explanations
Stockholm syndrome is a psychological shift that
occurs in captives when they are threatened
gravely but are shown acts of kindness by their
captors. Captives who exhibit the syndrome tend
to sympathize with and think highly of their
captors. When subjected to prolonged captivity,
these captives can develop a strong bond with
their captors, in some cases including a sexual
interest.
Psychiatrist Frank Ochberg, widely credited with
Stockholm Syndrome's psychiatric definition,
describes it as "a primitive gratitude for the gift of
life," not unlike that felt by an infant.[7]
According to the psychoanalytic view of the
syndrome, this tendency might be the result of
employing the strategy evolved by newborn
babies to form an emotional attachment to the
nearest powerful adult in order to maximize the
probability that this adult will enable —at the very
least—the survival of the child, if not also prove to
be a good parental figure. This syndrome is
considered a prime example for the defense
mechanism of identification.[8]
Notable examples
Mary McElroy was kidnapped and held for
ransom in 1934 and released by her captors
unharmed. She described the incident as a
positive one and, when her captors were
apprehended and given harsh sentences
(including one death sentence), McElroy
defended them. According to reports, she
suffered from feelings of guilt concerning the
case which compromised her mental and
physical health. She took her own life in 1940.
Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the
Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974. After
two months in captivity, she actively took part
in a robbery they were orchestrating. Her
unsuccessful legal defense claimed that she
suffered from Stockholm syndrome and was
coerced into aiding the SLA. She was convicted
and imprisoned for her actions in the robbery,
though her sentence was commuted in
February 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, and
she received a Presidential pardon from
President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001
(among his last official acts before leaving
office).
Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted at age 11 by
Phillip & Nancy Garrido at a school bus stop in
1991 and was imprisoned at their residence for
18 years. In August 2009, Phillip brought
Nancy & Jaycee (who was living under the alias
"Alyssa") along with two girls that Garrido
fathered with Jaycee during her captivity, to be
questioned by Garrido's parole officer after he
noticed some suspicious behavior. She did not
reveal her identity when she was questioned
alone. Instead, she told investigators she was a
battered wife from Minnesota who was hiding
from her abusive husband, and described
Garrido as a "great person" who was "good
with her kids". Dugard has since admitted to
forming an emotional bond with Garrido with
great guilt and regret.[9]
Lima syndrome
An inverse of Stockholm syndrome called "Lima
syndrome" has been proposed, in which
abductors develop sympathy for their hostages.
It was named after an abduction at the Japanese
Embassy in Lima, Peru in 1996, when members
of a militant movement took hostage hundreds of
people attending a party in the official residence of
Japan's ambassador. Within a few hours, the
abductors had set free most of the hostages,
including the most valuable ones, due to
sympathy.[10][11]
In popular culture
In the "Bond movie" The World Is Not Enough,
James Bond deduces that Elektra King, the
female antagonist in the movie is affected by
Stockholm Syndrome.
The term Helsinki syndrome has been used
erroneously to describe Stockholm syndrome,
popularized by the movie Die Hard.[12]
There is a band and several albums and songs
called "Stockholm Syndrome".
The story tag of the 2010 Bollywood and
Kollywood movie, Raavan or Raavanan is
based on Stockholm Syndrome.
In the Simpsons episode "Blame it on Lisa"
Homer is kidnapped and his captors say that
he has developed Stockholm Syndrome.
In the British television series Spooks, an agent
Lucas North suffers from severe Stockholm
Syndrome; even after being repeatedly
tortured then confined alone for eight years.
In the Denzel Washington movie, John Q, his
character John Quincy Archibald takes a
hospital emergency room hostage, by the end
of the movie several hostages are rooting for
him to get a much needed heart transplant for
his son (showing signs of Stockholm
syndrome calling him "a very good man")
Saturday, August 21, 2010
History of satanic rock 7
Insofar as Satanic rock still survives, the place to
turn is Norway, now the leading source of Black
Metal and Satanic Metal and for a long time the
gangsta-rap of Norway, with a number of brutal
slayings in its midst and wake, some apparently
ritualistic. Despite this, among its devotees, the
same familiar arguments arise that one might find
in a conversation about folk music. Who is
authentic? Who is a poser? What is classic?
Again, a true Satanist will tell you that all of this is
nonsense anyway, and that none of these
musicians know what Satanism is all about, nor
would a true Satanist cheapen their faith by
littering an album with tacky pentagrams.
But then, that same Satanist will tell you, probably
with a creepy twinkle in his eye, that all music is
Satanic anyway.
turn is Norway, now the leading source of Black
Metal and Satanic Metal and for a long time the
gangsta-rap of Norway, with a number of brutal
slayings in its midst and wake, some apparently
ritualistic. Despite this, among its devotees, the
same familiar arguments arise that one might find
in a conversation about folk music. Who is
authentic? Who is a poser? What is classic?
Again, a true Satanist will tell you that all of this is
nonsense anyway, and that none of these
musicians know what Satanism is all about, nor
would a true Satanist cheapen their faith by
littering an album with tacky pentagrams.
But then, that same Satanist will tell you, probably
with a creepy twinkle in his eye, that all music is
Satanic anyway.
History of satanic rock 6
Despite the fact that almost none of these bands
ever sold as many records as a lukewarm
Captain and Tennille album, the phenomenon
was taken very seriously by the media and
churches; the 1980's weren't the 1960's. The
conservative 80's saw a bizarre anti-Satanic
grassroots wellspring, which ultimately became
one of the great witch hunts (literal) of the last
couple of hundred years. Using "recovered
memory therapy", stories of ritual satanic abuse
and sacrifice wound up circulating on TV talk
shows; if all of the accusations had been correct,
satanic ritual sacrifice was the #3 killer of
Americans in the US, ahead of homicide and just
behind cancer and heart disease. Yet, no cadre of
ritual sacrificers were found, no evidence, no
bodies.
While these accusations and the methods that
brought out these "memories" have since been
discredited (after ruining numerous lives of the
unjustly accused), they helped to illustrate what a
powerful signifier satanism is in the imaginations
of the simplest of people; as a result, satanic rock
didn't just not go away, it once again entered the
mainstream; Motley Crue had a huge seller with
Shout at The Devil. Slayer incorporated a
pentagram into their logo. The Christian rock act
Stryper became something of the anti-Satanic
metal band, tossing bibles to the audience.
The suicides of some rock listeners after listening
to albums by Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne
helped lend the PMRC some muscle, which
played a hand in getting their rating stickers on
CD's. During the witch-hunt years, back-masking,
the technique of recording subliminal messages
backwards on an album, gained attention. At first,
it was claimed that "Stairway to Heaven" played
backwards concealed Satanic exhortations. Then
other songs, until, perhaps as an example of how
the anti-Satanists were truly grasping at straws, it
was announced that the theme to the TV series
"Mr. Ed" also hid a Satanic message.
Naturally, some bands decided to try this
gimmick after hearing these stories. However,
psychology has never accepted backwards
masking as a way of instilling a subliminal
suggestion; brains don't process backwards
sounds very well.
Part IV: Satanism in rock today
Marilyn Manson
Today, rock audiences are a little more
sophisticated than they once were, and it takes
more to shock. Marilyn Manson was rumored to
be a minister in the Church of Satan, and persued
a shock agenda, which included his choice of
stage name. Rob Zombie is another dabbler in
luciferian imagery. However, after the Sept. 11,
2001 terrorist attacks, there seems to have been
yet another waning in Satanic concerns
(suggesting that Satanism may be the pastime of
the idle middle-class; when survival becomes an
issue, Satanism suddenly loses its allure).
ever sold as many records as a lukewarm
Captain and Tennille album, the phenomenon
was taken very seriously by the media and
churches; the 1980's weren't the 1960's. The
conservative 80's saw a bizarre anti-Satanic
grassroots wellspring, which ultimately became
one of the great witch hunts (literal) of the last
couple of hundred years. Using "recovered
memory therapy", stories of ritual satanic abuse
and sacrifice wound up circulating on TV talk
shows; if all of the accusations had been correct,
satanic ritual sacrifice was the #3 killer of
Americans in the US, ahead of homicide and just
behind cancer and heart disease. Yet, no cadre of
ritual sacrificers were found, no evidence, no
bodies.
While these accusations and the methods that
brought out these "memories" have since been
discredited (after ruining numerous lives of the
unjustly accused), they helped to illustrate what a
powerful signifier satanism is in the imaginations
of the simplest of people; as a result, satanic rock
didn't just not go away, it once again entered the
mainstream; Motley Crue had a huge seller with
Shout at The Devil. Slayer incorporated a
pentagram into their logo. The Christian rock act
Stryper became something of the anti-Satanic
metal band, tossing bibles to the audience.
The suicides of some rock listeners after listening
to albums by Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne
helped lend the PMRC some muscle, which
played a hand in getting their rating stickers on
CD's. During the witch-hunt years, back-masking,
the technique of recording subliminal messages
backwards on an album, gained attention. At first,
it was claimed that "Stairway to Heaven" played
backwards concealed Satanic exhortations. Then
other songs, until, perhaps as an example of how
the anti-Satanists were truly grasping at straws, it
was announced that the theme to the TV series
"Mr. Ed" also hid a Satanic message.
Naturally, some bands decided to try this
gimmick after hearing these stories. However,
psychology has never accepted backwards
masking as a way of instilling a subliminal
suggestion; brains don't process backwards
sounds very well.
Part IV: Satanism in rock today
Marilyn Manson
Today, rock audiences are a little more
sophisticated than they once were, and it takes
more to shock. Marilyn Manson was rumored to
be a minister in the Church of Satan, and persued
a shock agenda, which included his choice of
stage name. Rob Zombie is another dabbler in
luciferian imagery. However, after the Sept. 11,
2001 terrorist attacks, there seems to have been
yet another waning in Satanic concerns
(suggesting that Satanism may be the pastime of
the idle middle-class; when survival becomes an
issue, Satanism suddenly loses its allure).
History of satanic rock 5
However, in 1969, the first openly Satanic bands
began making their appearance. Perhaps first and
foremost were Black Widow, who sometimes
shared gigs with Black Sabbath. Black Widow's
1970 debut, Sacrifice, is a pro-Satanist offering
with titles like "Way To Power" "Come to the
Sabbat" "Conjuration" "Sacrifice". Not a heavy
metal band or even a hard rock band, Black
Widow's music was creepy and, in places,
corny. But it was the first attempt in rock to bring
underground Satanism to the mainstream, and
the first case of Satanism being the point of the
music, and not just one of its devices. Onstage,
they performed Satanic ritual, which included the
participation of a nude woman celebrant.
It was also around this time when Jimmy Page, a
known Crowley aficianado, supposedly convened
Led Zeppelin for a little bit of soul-trading with the
devil in an effort to assure their success, in much
the same way Robert Johnson had. While the
story is probably as apocryphal as Johnson's,
who really knows? Page eventually bought
Crowley's castle; Led Zeppelin IV (or zoso) and
"Stairway to Heaven" in particular, was hailed by
Kenneth Anger as one of the greatest Satanic
works ever. A 1974 car accident seriously injured
Robert Plant and his wife, drummer John
Bonham died in 1980. Both events were
speculated to be early paybacks for their deal.
As the 1960's wound down and the 1970's picked
up, Satanism as a movement was on the wane.
However, the success of Black Sabbath, and
heavy metal's fascinations with power, death,
and doom, meant that Satanism had forever
found a niche in rock; as long as there were
tormented teens looking for thrills, there'd be a
place for evil symbology.
Part III: The 70's and 80's
Venom
So in the 1970's and 1980's there was no
shortage of heavy metal and hard rock acts that
used Satanism either explicitly in a pro-Satanism
sense, or in an ambiguous thing-to-fear sense. A
partial roster of such bands include Angel Witch,
Venom, Pagan Altar, Widow, Witchfynde, Hell
Satan, Cloven Hoof, Warhammer, Onslaught,
Sabbat, Antichrist-Ragnarok, Cradle Of Filth,
Megiddo Bal Sagoth, December Moon, Ewigkeit,
Adorior, Hecate, Enthroned, Phantasia, Forefather,
Meads Of Asphodel, Reign Of Erebus, Thus
Defiled, Old Forest, Annal Nathrakh. Few of these
bands ever sold many records, although Venom,
which included blasphemous doggerel on the
album covers, became a favorite of severely
disaffected youth in the 80's.
began making their appearance. Perhaps first and
foremost were Black Widow, who sometimes
shared gigs with Black Sabbath. Black Widow's
1970 debut, Sacrifice, is a pro-Satanist offering
with titles like "Way To Power" "Come to the
Sabbat" "Conjuration" "Sacrifice". Not a heavy
metal band or even a hard rock band, Black
Widow's music was creepy and, in places,
corny. But it was the first attempt in rock to bring
underground Satanism to the mainstream, and
the first case of Satanism being the point of the
music, and not just one of its devices. Onstage,
they performed Satanic ritual, which included the
participation of a nude woman celebrant.
It was also around this time when Jimmy Page, a
known Crowley aficianado, supposedly convened
Led Zeppelin for a little bit of soul-trading with the
devil in an effort to assure their success, in much
the same way Robert Johnson had. While the
story is probably as apocryphal as Johnson's,
who really knows? Page eventually bought
Crowley's castle; Led Zeppelin IV (or zoso) and
"Stairway to Heaven" in particular, was hailed by
Kenneth Anger as one of the greatest Satanic
works ever. A 1974 car accident seriously injured
Robert Plant and his wife, drummer John
Bonham died in 1980. Both events were
speculated to be early paybacks for their deal.
As the 1960's wound down and the 1970's picked
up, Satanism as a movement was on the wane.
However, the success of Black Sabbath, and
heavy metal's fascinations with power, death,
and doom, meant that Satanism had forever
found a niche in rock; as long as there were
tormented teens looking for thrills, there'd be a
place for evil symbology.
Part III: The 70's and 80's
Venom
So in the 1970's and 1980's there was no
shortage of heavy metal and hard rock acts that
used Satanism either explicitly in a pro-Satanism
sense, or in an ambiguous thing-to-fear sense. A
partial roster of such bands include Angel Witch,
Venom, Pagan Altar, Widow, Witchfynde, Hell
Satan, Cloven Hoof, Warhammer, Onslaught,
Sabbat, Antichrist-Ragnarok, Cradle Of Filth,
Megiddo Bal Sagoth, December Moon, Ewigkeit,
Adorior, Hecate, Enthroned, Phantasia, Forefather,
Meads Of Asphodel, Reign Of Erebus, Thus
Defiled, Old Forest, Annal Nathrakh. Few of these
bands ever sold many records, although Venom,
which included blasphemous doggerel on the
album covers, became a favorite of severely
disaffected youth in the 80's.
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