History of satanic rock 4

In 1968 the Mansons were living in a house they
had pretty much overrun Beach Boy drummer
Dennis Wilson out of. The Beach Boys' "Never
Learn Not To Love" (from 20/20)was written by
Charles Manson as "Cease to Exist", a chorus the
Beach Boys changed to "cease to resist". On the
Beach Boys' album Dennis Wilson gets
songwriting credit, Manson sold his for cash. His
own version appears on his own Lie album. The
Manson Family weren't Satanists per se, but
Manson, a jailbird most of his life, had explored a
number of Satanic church/cults and was a
jailhouse psychology expert; Tex Watson
famously announced "I'm the devil, and I'm here
to do the devil's work" (a quote borrowed by Rob
Zombie in the film The Devil's Rejects) to his
victims at the Tate house.
In 1968, The Rolling Stones continued to dabble in
Satanic imagery, releasing one of their most
provocative songs ever, "Sympathy for the
Devil". Onstage, Jagger developed a devilish
persona in his manner of dress and dance that
reached full bloom during the Stones' 1969 tour.
Much of their interest in Satanism came to them
through Anita Pallenberg, who dated Brian Jones,
then Keith Richard, and finally Mick Jagger.
Also in 1968 came the release of the Roman
Polanski film Rosemary's Baby, the first explicitly
Satanic mainstream film, and one in which the
Satanists ultimately win. One of the eeriest and
most talked about films of its day, it made the
news again the following year, when Polanski's
wife Sharon Tate was among the Manson family
victims on their first spree killing. Trent Reznor
(Nine Inch Nails) lived and recorded in the Tate
house in the 90's.
1969 was a peak year for Satanic activity in the
U.S. New cults, some brutal, some benign, began
appearing in mutant profusion. Jagger finally
succeeded in invoking the Devil himself as he
presided over the Altamont festival, which was
marred by violence and a brutal killing in front of
the stage as fans and bikers clashed. The
experience clearly shocked Jagger, who almost
immediately began retreating from his devil
persona, adopting one of Village Idiot instead for
the next few years.
Back in Birmingham England, a band by the
name of Earth began playing a campy frightshow
song of Satanic possession entitled "Black
Sabbath" that caused enough of a stir that the
band renamed themselves after it. Black Sabbath,
their 1970 debut album is rife with ominous
Satanic references, from "Black Sabbath" to
"N.I.B.", songs like "The Wizard" touched on
black magic. Despite accusations from
fundamentalist Christians that persist to this day,
Black Sabbath never really was a "Satanic" band;
they never took a pro-Satanic stand in their
music. With Black Sabbath, Satan was something
fearsome and frightening, as were drugs, the
war, and life itself.