Singing For Satan--Special Edition

 

From August 2017 to August 2019, I ran a series of posts exposing the evil in rock, pop, and rap music, and I called the series of posts "Singing For Satan." Although that "first Monday of the month" series ended almost seven years ago, I reserved the right to bring up another post on the topic if I thought any artist(s) not previously covered needed to be exposed or if new developments with those I had covered took place. 

A friend of mine brought my attention to the so-called "27 Club," a group of famous musicians who all thought they would die young, and they all went to Judgement between their 27th and 28th birthdays. I knew of the so-called "club," but he told me something that really intrigued me; he said that all of them had made a pact with Satan for talent and success in return for their soul at an early age. The 27 club began with a man named Robert Johnson, of whom it had been said he couldn't play the guitar at all. He went missing for a couple of days, and he came back playing better than any professional guitarist. The alleged deal had been made.

Or had it? There has been much debunking written about the story of Johnson, and it seemed to show that he was a man looking for a gimmick, and he found one. That, combined with his talent (kept mostly hidden), made him famous. I started to research the lives of those in the club. All of them, yes, every single one, was deep into the occult and had actual references to Satan in their lives. Coincidence? You decide. ---Introibo

The Introduction to the original series of posts:

This week I continue my series of posts regarding an informal study I undertook in the early 1990s regarding rock and pop music. The purpose of my study (and the background to it) can be read in the first installment of August 7, 2017. If you have not read that post, I strongly encourage you to do so before reading this installment. I will only repeat here the seven (7) evil elements that pervade today's music:

1. Violence/Murder/Suicide

2. Nihilism/Despair

3. Drug and alcohol glorification

4. Adultery/ Fornication and sexual perversion

5. The occult

6. Rebellion against lawful superiors

7. Blasphemy against God, Jesus Christ in particular, and the Church

 The exposing of the bands/artists continues.

WARNING!! This post contains material that is vile and probes great evil. Reader discretion is strongly advised.

Was There an Actual Deal With the Devil? The "27 Club"

While there has been much written in the wake of the despicable rapper Bad Bunny (b. Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio in 1994), and his performance at this year's Super Bowl, there is something more interesting that intrigued me. Was the inception of modern music (rock, rap, etc.) derived from an actual deal made with Satan? Even if not true, the information in this post will take you for a wild ride through the history of modern music. (N.B. The contents which follow were taken from many sources, both online and in print. I take no credit for the information herein. All I did was condense it into a terse and readable post.---Introibo).

Robert Johnson (May 8, 1911–August 16, 1938).

In Rosedale, Mississippi, where highways 61 and 49 intersect, stands a crossroads. Some claim that it is at this particular locale where the Delta Blues emerged as a manifest entity in the person and music of blues player Robert Johnson. Robert Johnson was a mediocre player at best—his mentor, Son House, said he “couldn’t play worth a da*n.” Then he vanished. When he returned, his fingers moved like lightning, his sound like fire. People didn’t believe what they heard. They said something had entered him—that he’d come back from that dark midnight meeting with more than music in his hands.

The legend goes that during the 1930s Johnson ventured to the Mississippi crossroads at midnight to make ask the devil to appear to him and strike a deal; Johnson’s eternal soul in exchange for unearthly guitar talents. He is hailed as one of the greatest blues guitarists in the world; and a precursor of rock and roll. There are many who claim (with good evidence) that it was just a gimmick and Johnson milked it for all it was worth. 

That he did. No less than three of Johnson's songs tell the story of the deal he made with Hell. His song Me and the Devil Blues has this to say:

Early this mornin'

When you knocked upon my door

Early this mornin', whoo

When you knocked upon my door

And I said, "Hello, Satan

I believe it's time to go"

Me and the Devil

Was walkin' side by side

Me and the Devil, whoo

Was walkin' side by side

I'm going to beat my woman

Until I get satisfied

She said you don't see why

That you would dog me round

Now baby, you know you ain't doin' me right, don'tcha?

She say you don't see why, whoo

That you would dog me round

It must-a be that old evil spirit

So deep down in the ground

You may bury my body

Down by the highway side

Baby, I don't care where you bury my body when I'm dead and gone

You may bury my body, whoo

Down by the highway side

So my old, evil spirit

Can get a Greyhound bus and ride

(Emphasis mine).

Johnson kept voodoo charms for protection—black cat bones, hot foot powder, conjure magic. He told people he wouldn’t live long. He died howling and with convulsions as he claimed frantically that he heard and saw ferrous huge dogs, hellhounds, coming for him before dying. There is no cause of death listed on Johnson's death certificate. It is believed he was poisoned by the husband of the woman with which he was committing adultery. He was 27 years old. Thus the so-called "27 Club" was born--a group of talented musicians who died aged 27. Whether or not Johnson had made an actual deal with the devil, one thing is certain; all members of the "club" were heavily into the occult. 

Brian Jones (February 28, 1942 – July 3, 1969

One of the founding members of the detestable rock group, The Rolling Stones, Jones was an occultist, as were the other band members. Whereas the glorification of sex by the band was well known, their glorification of Satan was not. Unlike bands such as AC/DC, or artists like Marilyn Manson, they somehow flew under the radar for promotion of Satanism. The 1968 album Beggars Banquet, produced one of the most horrid songs in history; Sympathy for the Devil. The song is listed by Rolling Stone magazine at #32 in its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time." (The magazine, founded in 1967, attributes its name to the group as well as the Muddy Water's song, and the aphorism "a rolling stone gathers no moss"). Originally, the song was to be titled Fallen Angels, and then changed to The Devil is My Name, before settling on the final nomenclature. It tells the story of history, including the Crucifixion of Our Lord, from Satan's point of view while he boasts of his role in history. 

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man (sic) of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul to waste
And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt (sic) and pain
Made da*n sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his (sic) fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made...

The song has been used (without objection) by Satan worshipers associated with Anton LaVey's  Church of Satan. Jones traveled to Morocco to record pagan trance music called The Rites of Pan—ancient rituals invoking the demon goat-god of chaos and lust. The same Pan that Satanist Aleister Crowley identified as Satan in his “Hymn to Pan.” Jones was found dead in his swimming pool at the age of 27, with the cause of death attributed to an enlarged liver and enlarged heart caused by years of heavy drinking and drug abuse.

Rolling Stones guitarist, Keith Richards, later admitted he’d warned Brian: “You’ll never make thirty, man.” Brian nodded. “I know.” (See faroutmagazine.co.uk/rolling-stones-keith-richards-predicted-brian-jones-death). 

Jimi Hendricks (November 27, 1942–September 18, 1970)

Considered one of the greatest guitar players in rock and roll history, Jimi Hendrix held a keen interest in spiritism. Kwasi Dzidzornu, a conga player who often played with Hendrix, was from a village in Ghana, West Africa, where his father was a voodoo priest. Hendrix called himself the “Voodoo Child.” One of his hit songs Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) leaves no room for doubt:

Well, I stand up next to a mountain

And I chop it down with the edge of my hand

Yeah

Well, I stand up next to a mountain

And I chop it down with the edge of my hand

Well I pick up all pieces and make an island

Might even raise a little sand

Yeah

Cause I'm a Voodoo Child

Lord knows I'm a Voodoo Child baby...

Hendrix was heavily influenced by astrology, and on several occasions, claimed to be an extraterrestrial.

Tying together these assorted configurations in Jimi’s birth chart is Neptune, the planet of mysticism, escape, drugs and drink. Jimi was hardly alone in being swept away in a drug-induced miasma, but his sense of spirituality was unusually strong. He often described mystic episodes from his boyhood, and identified with the red Indian blood in his veins (even though he was only 1/16th Cherokee) that he felt brought him a shaman’s vision.

Predictably enough, Jimi himself was a devotee of astrology – at his 1970 concert in Hawaii he even invited the audience to divide according to their Sun signs. Listening to his cosmic voyages – to ‘as far away as Jupiter’s sulphur mines’, or to where mountains are chopped down ‘with the edge of my hand’ – one becomes aware of the multi-dimensional realm daily inhabited by Hendrix, with his passion for acid, numerology and space travel.

Yet Jimi remained careless about his earthly life. His horoscope shows no reasons why September 1970 should have spelt out his death. It was a foolish, avoidable accident. But, like he told us, Jimi, the brother from another planet, was only ever passing through. (See neilspencer.com/12-musician-sun-signs/sagittarius-jimi-hendrix/#:~:text=Tying%20together%20these%20assorted%20configurations,1).

The legendary guitar player’s long-term girlfriend Fayne Pridgon shared these worries:

He used to always talk about some devil, something was in him and he didn’t’ have any control over it. He didn’t know what made him act the way he acted and what made him say the things he said and songs and different things like that just come out of him… you know. It seems like to me he was so tormented and so torn apart and he really was He’d talk about us going down to Georgia and obsessed with something really evil. having some root lady drive this demon out of him. (Online recording; Emphasis mine).

Hendrix died at 27 on September 18, 1970, having choked to death on his own vomit while intoxicated with barbiturates.

Jim Morrison (December 8, 1943–July 3, 1971)

James Douglas Morrison (1943-1971) was born in Florida, and was a troubled person his entire life. He embodied the "hippie" counterculture movement of the 1960s. He was a "military brat," the son of a Rear Admiral, and had to relocate around the country. At the age of four, Morrison claims that there was a road accident wherein he witnessed a truck overturn, and there were bodies of Native Americans all over the road bleeding to death. He said the incident always stuck with him, and even influenced his songs. The veracity of the incident is challenged by his own parents and sister. In Morrison's biography No One Here Gets Out Alive, his father claimed they drove past some Native Americans who were in a vehicular accident, and one was crying, upsetting young Morrison. There was no mention of bleeding, dying Native Americans (or "Indians") along the road.  His sister is quoted as saying, "He enjoyed telling that story and exaggerating it. He said he saw a dead Indian [singular--Introibo] by the side of the road, and I don't even know if that's true." (See The Doors:The Illustrated History, [2012], pg. 12). I can't help but wonder if these were lies and exaggerations, or if perhaps young Morrison had a demonic encounter--a foreboding of when he would give himself over to Satan.

Morrison was a voracious reader, and took such notable atheists as Friedrich Nietzsche and Albert Camus as his literary and philosophical "heroes." He attended UCLA and graduated in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in cinematography. He lead a bohemian lifestyle, ingesting large amounts of LSD. Fancying himself a "poet," Morrison wrote many poems which would become the lyrics to his songs. He had a chance encounter with Ray Manzarek (d. 2013), a fellow student at UCLA who soon became a close friend. Manzarek was a keyboard player interested in forming a rock band, and he loved Morrison's poems, wanting them to be used as songs. Morrison went along with Manzarek, and the keyboard player also brought in guitarist Robert Kriege (b. 1946), and drummer John Paul Densmore (b. 1944).

The band got its name from the title of Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception, and it was a reference to the "perceptions" opened up by the members' unceasing use of drugs. Morrison would write the lyrics and sing, and all of them (except for Morrison at the beginning) were into the teachings of the pagan guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (d. 2008). They got their break when they signed a record contract with Elektra Records, and released eight albums in five years. In 1967, the song Light My Fire, would become their first smash hit, selling over one million copies.

The band broke up in 1971 after the mysterious death of Morrison on July 3rd, at the age of 27. The cause of his death was never determined (no autopsy was performed) and lead to the urban legend that (like the late Elvis Presley) Morrison "faked his death." The legend was a powerful one for quite some time. In the 1980s, here in New York City, you would often see graffiti that proclaimed "Jim Morrison Lives."  The Doors sold over 100 million records to date and Rolling Stone magazine lists them as #41 on "The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time." They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

Morrison never recanted his tale about the dead Indians (Native Americans). Did he perhaps see demons? I believe he did. According to Morrison himself, "The reaction I get now, thinking about it, looking back--is that the souls of the ghosts of those dead Indians...maybe one or two of 'em... were just running around freaking out, and just leaped into my soul. And they're still in there." (See lyrics of The Doors song Fragile Eggshell Mind). The biography Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison[1991], has Doors producer Paul Rothchild quoted as saying, "...(the) spirit entered Jim's body. That was the pivotal event of his life. He always viewed himself as the shaman, having mystical powers..." (pg. 193; Emphasis mine). A shaman is a pagan "witch doctor" who uses drugs and forms of meditation designed to reach altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with the "spirits" (i.e., demons). The shaman will then channel them to ostensibly help others, but ultimately lead these souls to perdition. Morrison and The Doors did this, not in some isolated part of Africa or Asia, but to the masses of Catholics; especially in Europe and America. 

This experience manifested itself in Morrison the singer during his shows when he would often "channel" a Native American shaman on stage, performing Indian dances and chanting. You can see him screaming and dancing like a shaman here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihn8ldJsfgQ. (You will also notice him sporting what appears to be a cross--what sacrilege!). The song The Soft Parade claims prayer to God is useless and you should "slay a few animals at the crossroads"--a reference to a Satanic ritual. 

When I was back there in seminary school
There was a person there
Who put forth the proposition
That you can petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the Lord with prayer
You cannot petition the lord with prayer...

You gotta meet me
Too late, baby
Slay a few animals
At the crossroads
Too late

The song Break On Through encourages the listener to "break on through to the other side." It has a double meaning. It encourages necromancy (condemned by the Church and in the Bible), and according to Morrison, "I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning."

You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run, tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Chased our plea here
Dug our trea there
Still recall, time we cried
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through, yeah
All right
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
She get
She get
She get
She get high

His demons made use of the other band members. According to Break On Through (cited above) Morrison's friend and keyboard player, Manzarak said, "Fifteen thousand people would be hushed, stopped, not even breathing. Man, when I was on stage with the guy (Morrison), I don't know who was playing the organ. Sure, it was my fingers, but..." (pg. 187; Emphasis mine). From No One Gets Out Alive (cited above) we read: "It was like Jim was an electric shaman, and we were the electric shaman's band, pounding away behind him. It would take him over...You could see every once in a while--twitch--I could hit a chord and make him twitch. And he'd go off again." (pgs. 159-160).

Janis Joplin (January 19, 1943-October 4, 1970)

Janis Joplin was a legendary American singer and a defining voice of 1960s psychedelic rock and blues, renowned for her raw, emotionally charged, and powerful vocals. She is sometimes referred to as the "first female rock star. Although raised in a Protestant household, her sister Laura remembered that in high school, Janis developed “an interest in the religion of voodoo,” passed to her by their family’s maid, Theresa. She would give herself over to the demonic.

Onstage, she became something more than a singer. Biographer Ann Angel called her “our shaman woman”—a performer whose sets felt like possession. She wrapped herself in voodoo amulets and feathers and branded her music the Kozmic Blues.  She consulted astrologers and was dubbed the Cosmic Witch—because audiences felt what she conjured: a voice like a spell, the presence of the demonic. (See Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing, [2010]). 

Just months before her death, she wrote home: “I managed to pass my—gasp—27th birthday.” 

(See pbs.org/newshour/arts/theres-more-to-janis-joplin-than-tragedy). 

On October 1, 1970, she recorded “Mercedes Benz.” The next song scheduled was titled “Buried Alive in the Blues.” She never made it to the microphone. Three days later, an alcoholic and drug addict, Joplin would die from a heroin overdose compounded by alcohol. Since her death, many occultists (including those who dabble in the occult) go to the hotel (Landmark Motor Hotel) where she died in an attempt to make contact with her. 

According to one source, at least one man believes he encountered "Janis Joplin:"

 Many fans, budding musicians, paranormal investigators and morbid curiosity seekers have stayed in the room, gotten drunk on Southern Comfort (Janis’ favorite liquor), set up altars, consulted Ouija boards, burned candles, composed songs, tried to record her ghostly voice (EVPs), attempted to photograph her reported materializations, and then written messages to her on the wall inside the walk-in closet. These messages, drawings, postings, etc. have been preserved as a sort of memorial to Janis, along with a plaque placed there by the hotel management.

I have stayed at the Highland Gardens many times since the early 80s and on one occasion, with my wife, asked to see room 105. Very spooky. We decided not to take the room.

Instead, we picked a room we had stayed in before on the second level of the courtyard overlooking the pool. Sometime after midnight, I went out onto the balcony to have a cigarette. When I opened the sliding glass door, I heard a sort of hollow singing echoing down below…just a half recognizable, raspy female voice…no instruments…it was not a radio or TV.

(See badwitch.es/janis-joplin-la-bruja-kosmica). 

Amy Winehouse (September 14, 1983--July 23, 2011

Winehouse was a Jewish singer and songwriter, who sang an eclectic mix of R&B and jazz. Winehouse was an alcoholic and deeply in the occult. In October 2008, a video captured Winehouse in a London studio ranting that the devil was making her take drugs. She was reportedly frustrated, broke her guitar, and was in a state of distress. 

(See upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/10/16/Winehouse-blames-drug-use-on-Satan/54291224169501/#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20Daily%20Telegraph%20article%2C%20Amy,a%20recording%20session%20for%20Winehouse's%20third%20album)

She often told friends and her mother, “I think I’m going to die young.” Her assistant said, “She knew she’d join the 27 Club.” She learned the occult from her grandmother who taught her to use Tarot cards. Winehouse was obsessed with her mortality. According to one source:

There was a less conventional dimension to the spell her grandmother cast on Amy: Cynthia was a keen Tarot card reader. Amy inherited her grandmother's belief in the power of Tarot: she was often seen with a pack of Tarot cards in her hand and when asked if she believed her grandmother could read the future, Amy nodded solemnly and said "Cynthia knew..."

Given the reckless, fatalistic way Amy began to behave in the aftermath of Cynthia's death, the question arises: had something she had read in the cards disturbed her? There are hints in the grave mood and lyrics of her second album to suggest that she believed she was doomed. In the titular Back To Black, Amy sang about her "odds being stacked" and in Love Is A Losing Game she lamented receiving a "losing hand".

Meanwhile, she became obsessed with her own mortality. The video for her single Back To Black featured her at a funeral. When television presenter Simon Amstell asked her what had happened to the more wholesome Amy of the Frank era, she replied: "She's dead". Friends and colleagues confirm that death became a subject of increased conversational interest to Amy.

(See https://theweek.com/people-news/amy-winehouse/1473/does-amys-grandmother-hold-key-her-death).

Kurt Cobain (February 20, 1967---April 5, 1994)

Kurt Cobain and his group Nirvana are considered one of the most (if not the most) influential musicians of the 20th century. Nirvana has been called "The Beatles of the 90's," and Cobain "The John Lennon of the 90's." Just like The Beatles and Lennon, they are anti-Christian and spread an evil message. Cobain formed the band with high school friend Chris Novoselic (b. 1965) who played bass, and they recruited Dave Grohl (b. 1969) to play drums. The band was originally to be called Fecal Matter, but Cobain decided on "Nirvana," the pagan Hindu and Buddhist concept of a release from reincarnation, where your individuality is "blown out" like a candle. 

Around the age of 13, he became a frequent drug abuser, and became full fledged heroin addict by 1986. He penned songs full of despair and misery, echoing the state into which he had gotten himself. Cobain then turned to Satan worship as a way out and achieve respect and success. According to biographer Christopher Sandford, Cobain made it known publicly that his stated goal was to "get stoned and worship Satan" (See Kurt Cobain, Carroll & Graff Publishers, Inc., New York, 1997, pg. 42). 

Cobain was an admitted bisexual, and he would desecrate churches with Novoselic. According to Sandford, he spray-painted "GOD IS GAY" on the side of a Church and he would take song lyrics he was dissatisfied with and set them on "...fire and leave [them] burning on the porch of the Open Bible Church." Rolling Stone magazine reports he spray-painted "ABORT CHRIST" on the side of a church. In that same article, it is stated that "Cobain made a satanic-looking doll and hung it from a noose in his window." (April 16, 1992 issue). His biographer confirms that Cobain decorated his apartment with "baby dolls hanging by their necks with blood all over them," and he sported a most blasphemous decapitated statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (Kurt Cobain, pgs. 54 & 89). 

That a man this depraved could be seen as a "hero" and the anniversary of his suicide "commemorated" demonstrates the depths to which our society has sunk. Unfortunately, Cobain's degeneracy doesn't stop with sick and sacrilegious acts. He became involved with witchcraft and began casting spells. He met occultist author William Burroughs, a whore-monger and bisexual pervert whose book Naked Lunch (1959) was so perverse that it went to court as it was considered a violation of the U.S. anti-sodomy laws. Burroughs "accidentally" killed his wife in Mexico while drunk and "playing William Tell" with a pistol in 1951. He was convicted of manslaughter and spent time in prison. Burroughs had such an influence on Cobain that, "William S. Burroughs received ‘special thanks’ on In Utero [Nirvana's third album] for being a cherished inspiration to Cobain."(See Chuck Chrisafulli, Teen Spirit, Simon & Schuster, pg. 6 [1996]). 

Cobain was obsessed with Church of Satan founder, and author of the Satanic Bible, Anton LeVay.  He wanted LeVay to play cello on Nirvana's first album, but for reasons unknown, it never happened. It was through his involvement with witchcraft leading to Satanism that Cobain's inspiration for songs came via "automatic writing." This is a process by which a person's hand moves without them consciously controlling it. Demons are thus channeled. According to the Rolling Stone interview, Cobain was "...stumbling on melodies by means he himself didn’t fully understand." 

On April 5, 1994, Cobain went home and shot himself in the head with a shotgun. His suicide note was addressed to his "invisible friend" named "Bodda." He complained that "his muse had gone south." Typically, Satan gives you power only to take it away and leave you in despair. Despite having a wife and child, his music was the only thing he really cared about and it made him want to live; now it was seemingly gone, and he took his life at age 27. He thought of the false idea of reincarnation, "If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got." Having gone to judgement, Kurt Cobain knows the truth, and he's not someone else.

Conclusion

There are more people in the "27 Club," but these are the biggest names. ALL of the musicians in the so-called club were into the occult and some openly called on Satan. Robert Johnson claimed to have made a deal with the devil, and it is dismissed as a "legend" he used to help his career. Were his songs about a deal with Satan mere hype, or was it a confession? Could there be more than coincidence at work? You have the facts. I'll let you, my readers, decide for yourselves.