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badfreddy - May 24, 2007 - 10:36 AM
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Im trying to compile a list of references to A.C. in music.
There are some obvious ones like Ozzy's Mr Crowley but are there any more obscure ones that have been overlooked? Anything really, maybe even cover art and imagary.
Im interested to find out if any contemporary bands/artist have an outwardly Crowlian Image.
wolf354 - May 24, 2007 - 12:27 PM
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Greetings
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
There are too many... just some in my head:
-Coil
-Current 93
-Death in June
-Tool
-Led Zeppelin
-Marilyn Manson
-Electric Hellfire Club
-Ministry
-Iron Maiden
-Nick Cave
-David Bowie
-Fields of Nephilim
-Lon Milo Duquette (he as a record)
...
There are those that I ain't shore like Sisters of Mercy, Sol Invictus, Fire and Ice, Boyd Rice or David E. Williams but it is probable they used.
If you search through the now dead World Serpent Distribution old catalogues probably you'll multiply these names.
Love is the law, love under will
Best regards
kidneyhawk - May 24, 2007 - 12:33 PM
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Of course, Killing Joke!
badfreddy - May 24, 2007 - 12:47 PM
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Thanks, Im looking for a specfics tho. Like a lyric that takes directly from the writings of A.C.
Id be interested to know how David Bowie is related etc
Coil are/where an amazing band, Im listening to Anal Staircase right now!
lashtal - May 24, 2007 - 03:25 PM
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badfreddy wrote: › Id be interested to know how David Bowie is related
I'm closer to the Golden Dawn
Immersed in Crowley's uniform
Of imagery...
Quicksand from Hunky Dory
belmurru - May 24, 2007 - 04:09 PM
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I think you can add Sting to that list.
I vaguely remembered an interview on MTV in the early 80s where he said he was reading Crowley, and I found this lead in a blog on the web -
http://danharms.wordpress.com/tag/readings/
(scroll to bottom) -
"So, what do Sting and the Loch Ness Monster have to do with Abramelin?
The Police’s Synchronicity II, released in 1983, juxtaposes two narratives against each other. One tells of an emotionally troubled man living in a bleak urban landscape, with a family on the edge of sanity and a job that leaves him incomplete and stunted. The other provides snapshots of a strange creature, emerging from a Scottish loch by… what? The last seconds of the video show Castle Urquhart, but the lyrics mention a “cottage.”
Could this cottage be Boleskine? It’s not as far-fetched as it might sound. Apparently Sting gave an interview to Penthouse published in the January 1984 issue - the year after the song was released - in which he declared his fascination with Crowley’s thought. I found a reference to it on this Italian site, but I’ve gotten no further than that."
The "Italian site" linked here actually gives less insight than this blog, but since I don't have the Penthouse issue in question I'll have to hope someone who has one can dig deeper.
Bel Murru
MrJelly - May 24, 2007 - 05:12 PM
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Graham Bond recorded Love is the Law in 1969, Holy Magick (1970) and We Put Our Magick on You (1971).
Gong recorded Mystic Sister: Magick Brother in 1969.
The (mis)quote,"Do as thy wilt shall be the whole of the law." appears in the liner notes for The Anthology of American Folk Music, 1952.
Aum418 - May 24, 2007 - 06:29 PM
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The band 'Therion'?
wolf354 - May 24, 2007 - 06:40 PM
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Greetings
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
badfreddy wrote: › Thanks, Im looking for a specfics tho. Like a lyric that takes directly from the writings of A.C.
Id be interested to know how David Bowie is related etc
Coil are/where an amazing band, Im listening to Anal Staircase right now!
You can't ask much more than "Rule Again" by Death in June (also with David Tibet back vocals). Douglas P., a homossexual nazi quoting Liber Al. It can't get much stranger than this, specially if you know the his personal history.
All the groups mentioned by me have many references and very easy to find... except Nick Cave with "Red Right Hand".
Iron Maiden with the track "Moonchild" or "Number of the Beast" was already mentioned in a previous thread.
Strangely Fields of Nephilim are a band that mentioned Crowley and Spare a lot and tend to be ignored (they have ended for a few years now).
Also forgot to mention Alan Moore recording "The Highbury Working".
After looking at my cd's collection I will make a reference to Lilith "Orgazio" made of ritual remixes with Crowley's texts a numeroligal theory (I am reading the cover) recorded exactly 90 years after the reception of the "Book of the Law".
Love is the law, love under will
Best regards
dougbrown93 - May 24, 2007 - 09:03 PM
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93 Good idea
Heres a couple from me
The Klaxons - Magick
Although the tag in the song is more Magick Without Tears. Not the best piece of Crowley related music.
Uncle John & Whitelock - Aleister Crowley
From the album There Is Nothing Else whose cover is very resemblent to the cover of Konx Om Pax
Im sure i spotted a band in Glasgow called Konx Om Pax
Used to correspond with a guy from the states in an industrial band call Psychonaut.
They recorded the whole of the Book of the Law over atmospheric industrial noise. Quite impressive. Michael Ford the guys name is and a real nice bloke. You can google him.
lashtal - May 24, 2007 - 10:04 PM
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Hi Doug,
dougbrown93 wrote: › Used to correspond with a guy from the states in an industrial band call Psychonaut.
I was listening to one of their albums the other day for the first time in months: really not bad at all!
Paul
BlueKephra - May 24, 2007 - 11:02 PM
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There is indeed a band called Knox Om Pax, they are an offshoot of the Stars Of The Lid/Dead Texan bands. If you have heard either then you'll know what to expect from Knox Om Pax. I suppose you'd call it drifting music. There's nothing overtly thelemic about it, as there are no lyrics or samples or anything obvious like that.
The Dead Texan cd reminds me very much of Labradford, whos live performance of their "E Luxo So" album in the Union Chapel in London, in front of a massive stained glass window, in a thunderstorm, was one of the most sublime musical experiences I've ever had. Anyway, nowt very thelemic about all this.
I'm off to london on Saturday to see Throbbing Gristle perform a live accompaniment to some of Derek Jarmans experimental super-8 films, in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern !
Anyone else going ?
lashtal - May 24, 2007 - 11:13 PM
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BlueKephra wrote: › I'm off to london on Saturday to see Throbbing Gristle perform a live accompaniment to some of Derek Jarmans experimental super-8 films, in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern! Anyone else going?
The grapevine has let me down on this occasion. Sounds amazing!
Please let us know how it goes...
Smells_and_Bells - May 25, 2007 - 12:58 AM
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wolf354 wrote: › .
Strangely Fields of Nephilim are a band that mentioned Crowley and Spare a lot and tend to be ignored (they have ended for a few years now).
93
effete
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zardoz - May 25, 2007 - 01:26 AM
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John Zorn did 2 or 3 albums based on Crowley's material. Should be easy to look up.
VCD - May 25, 2007 - 03:02 AM
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Three Fish recorded a version of the A ka dua mantra on the album "The Quiet Table" (1999). The track is titled "Chantreuse."
Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam is a founding member of Three Fish, and the Mark of the Beast is printed (amongst numerous other symbols) on one of their CDs - "No Code," if memory serves.
Aske - May 25, 2007 - 10:30 AM
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.:Kjærlighet er loven, kjærlighet under vilje:.
Guess you will find some interesting reading here:
http://www.oto.no/mmm/index.html
I also have to mention three of my favourites these days:
Shining (you will find 10 amazing songs to listen to here:)
http://www.shining.no/v1/news.php
Backworld (is "the devil's plaything" one of the most beautiful songs ever written?)
http://www.backworld.com/
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio
http://www.ordo-rosarius-equilibrio.net/
Enjoy!
nashimiron - May 25, 2007 - 11:30 AM
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Another band to add to the list of those who have recorded tracks called "Moonchild" are While Angels Watch (http://www.falling.org.uk). They also do a fantastic rendition of the poem Walpurgis-Night which appears in the novel Moonchild.
Walpurgis-Night is on the Liber AL centenary compilation released by Horus CD (http://www.horus.cz/www_hcd/releases.html).
I know of 4 versions of the Hymn to Pan, done by:
The Russian OTO which you have all no doubt heard already. 
Unto Ashes
Coph Nia - Also do an interpretation of the Gnostic Mass and much more of interest
Endura - their version is the best in my opinion and it appears on their album "The Great God Pan".
Most of these bands are 'for real' and not just using the Beasts words for effect so are worth checking out anyway.
Hmm, as I was planning a night out in London tonight think I should go book a ticket for the Tate Modern event too.
N.C.Bishop-Culpeper - May 25, 2007 - 12:55 PM
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Hi. Blood & Roses Kamera Records 12" E.P. Side B track 2: 'Love Under Will' Nick.
Hairetikos - May 25, 2007 - 01:41 PM
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The band Mudvayne, who associates themselves with the occult in their albums, paraphrases Liber AL in their song mercy, severity: "Pain of division is nothing, Joy of dissolution is everything."
The band Therion claims to have taken their name from a Celtic Frost album titled To Mega Therion, but then we all know where that title came from. But Therion hails from Dragon Rouge, so aside from their name, I'm not really sure how interested they are in A.C.
The band Behemoth also displays Thelemic images and titles. One of their albums is titled Thelema.6. Their song Decade of Therion uses as a chorus the words "Apo Pantoz Kakodaimonoz." There's many other Thelemic references in their albums.
The band DevilDriver declares "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" in their song Nothing's wrong?. In the booklet accompanying the CD, Dez Fafara, the vocalist, gives thanks to "The teachings of: Aleister Crowley," among others.
If I should think of more later, I'll post them.
~Sam
felis_silvestris - May 25, 2007 - 03:20 PM
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'Book of Lies' by the Fall, 'Aumgn' by Can (I think both of these may have been mentioned in an earlier thread by someone with a similar record collection to mine).
arcturus418 - May 25, 2007 - 06:43 PM
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The Can track is from the album Tago Mago. The Wikipedia article on this album states that "the name comes from a large rock formation off the cost of Ibiza that figures in the legend of Aleister Crowley". I don't remember reading anything about this ever. Is it a mistake?
miles_vera - May 25, 2007 - 06:49 PM
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Unless I missed it earlier Badfreddy nobody has mentioned the most obvious one,
Sgt Peppers album cover...I think he is face # 62?
Great subject
miles_vera - May 25, 2007 - 08:53 PM
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A little more contempory is Robbie Williams. He has expressed a lot of interest in AC in several interviews I have read . There is also a band called Perdurabo that has stuff posted on Youtube. I have no information on them though.
A little correction here too is in order. AC is face #2 on Sgt Pepper's (thanks to Mr John Lennon)
wulfram - May 26, 2007 - 01:07 AM
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Ian Gillan's "Abbey of Thelema" comes to mind.
And if we're mentioning Crowley's image on Sgt. Pepper, we would be remiss to not mention the initial pressing of Led Zeppelin III and the engraving of Do What Thou Wilt in the album run-off.
lashtal - May 26, 2007 - 01:10 AM
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There's an excellent and extensive list here: http://www.oto.no/mmm/mmm.html
jw - Jun 12, 2007 - 03:27 AM
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A couple other gothic/e.b.m. acts from the early '90s: yelworC [capitalzation intentional] and amGod (one member involved in both of those acts). I don't recall specific references in the songs themselves, but there was a yelworC release titled "A.I.W.A.S.S."
Hardcore techno's Rachel Kozak aka Hecate has some works that are inspired such as album "The Magick of Female Ejaculation" (reading, jtm? 
). Album "Ascension Chamber" is based on the English qaballah and Kozak states in an interview (see below) that it was her "most Thelemic by far". Her label's website (http://www.zhark.org) links to lashtal.com too.
Another resource: look up thelemicmusick.net on at the wayback machine (archive.org). Up until 2004 this was a site similar to the MMM one posted above. Some interviews that might be of interest are there.
joe93 - Jun 12, 2007 - 05:53 AM
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With regards to The Fall's Book of Lies track, here's Mark E. Smith interviewed in 2004;
Q: I wondered if the song Book of Lies was a reference to Crowley, whether he's a figure you're interested in.
MES: Well I do, but I keep it at the end of my arm. I've seen too many people dabble in that shit, you know. Like Genesis [P-Orridge] , he was into all that wasn't he. You've got to be very careful with that stuff. I do like his Tarot though, the Crowley one. I do still like that. The interpretations of the cards are so funny, some of them. The reverse one is like, you are a crawling cockroach of the worst order [laughter]. The normal one is, you're blocked, you're not doing the right thing, you should be a bit more open and think about what you want to do. And he says, you're a crawling cockroach of the worst order. Hah! You are like a bluebottle in human form. Imagine reading that to somebody. They'd probably kill themselves. [laughter] You are an average person, you'll never amount to anything. [more laughter]
Q: Do what thou wilt and those phrases.
MES: Oh that's still good.
And remember that M.E.S. claims to be psychic...
The Fugs released an album called It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest which featured a pic of A.C. from The Book of Lies and liner notes which referenced several Thelemic concepts. Their early stuff was produced by Harry Smith of Anthology fame, who was involved with luminaries like Kenneth Anger. For some obscure reason a recent Zappa archive recording entiled "MOFO" has Crowley in a long list of influences. I didn't know he cared...
BlueKephra - Jun 12, 2007 - 02:58 PM
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That's probably the longest period of relative lucidity in a MES interview ever! Hehe
There was a recent short discussion of the possible links between the songs Lucifer Over Lancashire and Lucifer Over London by The Fall and Current 93 respectively. Since Tibets interest in wierd fiction is well know, being a publisher of such, and MES has a love of old horror and ghost stories, seems Lewis Spence's short story (L.o.London) is the source of both.The only version of this story I've read was illustrated by AOS (though with a couple of his "masks" only). I wonder how much awareness Mark E Smith has of AOS? Judging from the amount of time Zos spent in the pub, I'd say they'd get on like a house on fire !
nashimiron - Jun 12, 2007 - 03:37 PM
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Thanks BlueKephra I've had the song 'Lucifer Over Lancashire' lurking in the back of my mind ever since I saw it on a dodgy documentary when I was a lad but I never knew what band it was by. I'll try and track it down even tho I'm sure it will turn out to be a load of absolute bollocks. 
Another band who'se CD's I've very recently started listening to again are Babylon Whores. Can't think of any direct Crowley quotes in their music but the subject matter of their songs is generally very magick-centred. Their guitarist is now in a band called Mirrorion who are great fun too. Their recent album had a limited edition which contained a magick mirror! Someone fromthe Typhonian OTO wrote up a series of interpretations of the tracks from that album which can be read here. It's on the third link down at the left of the screen.
AD - Jun 12, 2007 - 10:37 PM
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Okay, so this really isn't an AC reference, but the Legendary Pink Dots have a song named "Agape" and a song named "Golden Dawn" on the same album (right after each other, in fact). Coincidence? I think not.
Horemakhet - Jun 26, 2007 - 05:13 PM
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On Celtic Frost's latest album "Monotheist", there is a song called 'Os Abysmi Vel Daath', and there is a somewhat lengthy commentary(for an album!) about the thoughts and inspiration that went into the song (easily one of the best) underneath the lyrics. Of course the title comes from the Liber of the same name. This is definitely a band with a reverance for Crowley, and seem to be students of the same. They are overtly Crowleyan in that they have used the Heptagram as their band logo since the early eighties, and named one of their albums (1985) To Mega Therion.
Most of the bands that profess a love of Crowley and the Occult in general are heavier bands. The use of his symbolism is all over the extreme metal scene. Dani Filth of "Cradle of Filth", for a famous example, has gone on the record talking about Crowley's influence on their philosophy. The band "Cathedral" has used the recording of Crowley reciting a Call of the Aethyr to great effect on the song Halo of Fire on the album VIIth Coming, but how involved any of them are is unknown to me. . .
wolf354 - Jun 30, 2007 - 01:08 PM
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Greetings
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
When looking around the .net to see if there was already a "preview" of Abbey of Thelema I've stumbled on Ian Gillan "The Japanese Album" with track called "Abbey of Thelema".
On a similar topic... I do enjoy Led Zeppelin a lot but most portuguese hard rock listeners rate Deep Purple higher than Led Zeppelin - not me... and Gillan was the lead singer of Deep Purple.
It seems that Crowley was also on there agenda.
Love is the law, love under will
Best regards
Proteus - Jun 30, 2007 - 01:13 PM
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93 wolf
Gillian may have been Jesus, but Clapton is God.
I'll note that Page is the Hammer of the Gods and utilize the resultant LAShTAL.com indulgence to excuse my off-topic post.
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John
ameth441 - Jun 30, 2007 - 01:55 PM
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93
wasn't Ian Gillan in black sabbath for a while after dio?
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chris
djinn888 - Jun 30, 2007 - 02:03 PM
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Here's a related link I stumbled upon.
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20 ... luence.htm
Many listed here have already been mentioned but a few seem to be unique. I recall a slight variant of "Love is the Law, Love Under Will," used by a Metal Grindcore band "Carcass," in a song called "Firmhand." They merely switch the Love to Hate.
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ameth441 - Jun 30, 2007 - 02:07 PM
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93
what carcass album is that song on?
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C
djinn888 - Jun 30, 2007 - 02:09 PM
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If I recall correctly it's from their Album : "Swansong"
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666TSAEB - Jun 30, 2007 - 03:34 PM
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Let's not forget NOVO AEON by the Brasilian Raul Seixas with song writers Marcelo Motta and Paulo Coelho:
http://cliquemusic.uol.com.br/artistas/ ... disco=3526
Etu_Malku - Jun 30, 2007 - 06:17 PM
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An absolutely amazing collection of AC related musick, I had no idea.
lashtal - Jun 30, 2007 - 08:43 PM
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Proteus wrote: › I'll note that Page is the Hammer of the Gods and utilize the resultant LAShTAL.com indulgence to excuse my off-topic post.
Your password has been approved: please continue...
Baphomet111 - Jun 30, 2007 - 11:17 PM
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93
Glad to see that John Zorn was mentioned! His Moonchild (feat: Mike Patton, Zorn, and Joey Baron) and IAO are the most notably Crowley affected. If you get one or the other, pick up IAO, it is filled with many different genres and beautiful musick.
One that people do overlook (mainly due to it's obscurity) is Christian Death's The Path of Sorrows.
FIRST, this is NOT the Christian Death band that is around now, if you want to find this album, look up ROZZ WILLIAMS.
Rozz was quoted many times explaining his interest in Crowley and performance of adaptations of The Beast's rituals.
Onto the album; the Path of Sorrows is filled with references to Liber AL, Gematria, Crowley writings (an obvious one was The Book of Lies), and Kenneth Grant. But Crowley is not mentioned by name in the credits, only quick references to certain Tarot cards in the liner notes. Rozz didn't seem like he was trying to capitalize on the referencing of Crowley (like so many metal bands do, pushing the 'evil for evil's sake' motif) , but rather seemed like he had something to say on what he found.
The album can be taken a number of ways, something Rozz stressed in his work. He always kept his lyrics so you could take them any which way, allowing the listener ultimate freedom. Take apart the album, there are 10 tracks. You do the math!
Another point of Rozz Williams referencing Crowley is in one of his spoken word albums entitled Every King a Bastard Son. The composition's title is "The Beast". Though other tracks are very occult in nature, "The Beast" is the most obvious.
"...Soft blood flows in emerald starlight
Host of the labyrinth, fool or seer?
Prophet of wisdom, bathed in glory
Hour of the wolf is drawing near..."
--Hour of the Wolf
"...As I engage myself in prayer.
'Bring me through midnight to the sun!'
As I enflame myself with prayer
'Bring me through midnight to the sun!'
Everythings in motion, everything lies still
Through the veil of sorrow
And the pall of death..."
--The Path of Sorrows
If you'd like to know more about this interesting artist, check out rozznet.com or any of the other many sites dedicated to him.
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cheers, AJ
subrosa - Jul 01, 2007 - 12:34 AM
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Hail Rozz
Before his time, like all the greats.
templumkat - Jul 01, 2007 - 09:57 AM
Post subject: The Seahorses - Love is the Law
All
I'd also add that John Squire from the "Stone Roses" set up a new band called the "Seahorses" and their first single was "Love is the Law". I have a tape cassette with a Mandala-like painting on the front apparently painted by Squire. The lyrics are somewhat surreal, and include:
"Now we know where we are going baby
We can lay back and enjoy the ride
Take in the sights and drown in our senses
Love is the law so take me deep inside
...
These waters run deep it's clear my little one
Blue velvet star sky not a sound
The light in your eyes the smile on your ruby lips
Tells me my lost soul is found"
More here:
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/1597/seah.html
In the Great Work
Frater F.P.
http://www.farawaycentre.com
Courses in Magick, Kabbalah, Tarot and Witchcraft in the heart of the Lake District
666TSAEB - Jul 01, 2007 - 07:07 PM
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Noticed this free download at LuLu:
http://www.lulu.com/content/822622
Arto - Aug 06, 2007 - 08:26 AM
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Here is a link for an excellent thelemic band:
http://locomotive.arzrecords.com/
mutat - Aug 06, 2007 - 05:46 PM
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ameth441 wrote: › 93
wasn't Ian Gillan in black sabbath for a while after dio?
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chris
yes for one album.... "Born Again" came out in "83"
anpi - Aug 06, 2007 - 06:07 PM
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I think one of the fancy 3D pictures in the cover art of Tool's 10,000 Days has a deck of Crowley's Thoth tarot cards. It's in the same picture as the pile of books (which I don't recognize, BTW). This perhaps isn't significant, but I decided to share it anyway, if only because I found it myself!
Tool may have other references to Crowley, but perhaps bigger Tool fans than me know more about these.
anpi - Aug 06, 2007 - 09:04 PM
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zardoz wrote: › John Zorn did 2 or 3 albums based on Crowley's material. Should be easy to look up.
Yes, I think I should look more into Zorn. I think I haven't really heard him before, but I was amazed to find in YoTtube some of his Crowley related songs, such as "Ghosts of Thelema", with Mike Patton doing the vocal art!
Patton's Faith No More was one of my favorite bands when I was a kid, especially the albums "Angel Dust" and "King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime".
oneiros - Aug 07, 2007 - 04:24 PM
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And there's the track 'Scarlet Woman' by Chakra, B-side of the Marabo 7" of Crowley's two poems - this one also features Kenneth Grant on backing vocals.
O
oneiros - Aug 07, 2007 - 04:26 PM
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Not forgetting Genesis P-Orridge's repetition x4 of "Love is the Law..." on Throbbing Gristle's first single 'United' (Industrial Records, 1978).
oneiros - Aug 07, 2007 - 04:50 PM
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As a little nightcap, a couple more from the early 'Industrial revolution' period:
The Marabo single featuring 'La Gitana' and 'The Pentagram' provided several groups with useful bits of Crowley's presence - Throbbing Gristle used a tape of the latter reading as a concert intro, evidenced by the live LP 'Rafters'; David Tibet used a loop of the line "Arise o man in thy strength..." as the basis for a track of improvised clonking on 23 Skidoo's LP 'The Culling is Coming' (1983), whilst the first Current 93 release, a 12" titled 'Lashtal' (which I believe was also the first release by J. Balance), had a snatch of Crowley intoning one of the Aethyrs as a lock groove in the A-side lead-out , also appearing in the remixed version on the back.
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warriormonk93 - Aug 07, 2007 - 05:10 PM
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93! There is a now defunct Canadian Band "http://www.teaparty.com/", Jeff Martin their main songwriter and guitarist is greatly influenced by J. Page and there are numerous not so subtle Thelemic references in all their albums. They even opened for Page and Plant here in Montreal when they toured with the Egyptian Orchestra...
93, 93/93.
WM93
lashtal - Aug 08, 2007 - 08:19 AM
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oneiros wrote: › This one also features Kenneth Grant on backing vocals.
I believe this to be apocryphal - perhaps Michael or David could resolve this oft-quoted tale once and for all...
tjnewton - Aug 08, 2007 - 07:10 PM
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Ultraculture Journal One has a long article about Bowie's interest in Crowley and the occult.
http://www.ultraculture.org/index2.htm
I have a vague memory that something by The Royal Family and The Poor was Crowley related ...
the_real_simon_iff - Aug 09, 2007 - 07:00 AM
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tjnewton wrote: › Ultraculture Journal One has a long article about Bowie's interest in Crowley and the occult.
Be aware that the mentioned article by Peter R. Koenig has been removed from the downloadable document.
More AC references:
Love Is The Law
by
Turn Blue (or is it the other way round?)
Dead Happy Records 2006
Lots of references (songs like "777" "Love is the Law" Magical Surprise" etc.), unfortunately a kind of home-made music I do not like very much. But do what thou wilt...
Love=Law
Lutz
hamsolo - Aug 09, 2007 - 12:13 PM
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Bruce Dickinson "Man of Sorrows" is all about Crowley: "Vision of a new world from the ashes of the old, Do what thou wilt! he screams from his cursed soul" etc. Also not obviously Thelemic but he has a track called "The Book of Thel"
VRST - Aug 10, 2007 - 05:44 AM
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miles_vera wrote: ›
A little correction here too is in order. AC is face #2 on Sgt Pepper's (thanks to Mr John Lennon)
I understand it was Dan Richter, the Beat poet and Lennon's (acid) minder from 1966 to 1972 who was responsible for AC (and Wallace Berman) being on the Sgt Pepper cover.
The inner sleeve of Lubricated Goat's second album Paddock of Love (1989) features frontman Stu Spasm in the attitude of Pan or Bacchus, imitating the famous Crowley photo. In 1995 the Goat issued Forces You Don't Understand. On the cover of this, Stu repeats the pose, this time within a seven-pointed star. There are no Thelemic lyrics in Lubricated Goat songs but the band were influenced by the 93 current. Incidentally, they are the only band to have performed on Australian television in the nude.
Alkwin_K - Aug 13, 2007 - 10:37 AM
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probably not what ya search.. but anyways..
..after reading this thread, i stumbled uppon this new Lon Milo Duquette Birthday Song on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRSyFMHGaXU 
darkflame - Aug 13, 2007 - 11:47 AM
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brilliant!
oneiros - Aug 14, 2007 - 08:41 AM
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lashtal wrote: ›
oneiros wrote: › This one also features Kenneth Grant on backing vocals.
I believe this to be apocryphal - perhaps Michael or David could resolve this oft-quoted tale once and for all...
No, it's quite true - I asked Grant in one of my letters, and he confirmed; the backing voices are a male and a female, the latter being (I believe, from memory) Janice Ayers - lady from the Sothis crew anyway. They recite the mantra 'Ar-a-go-go' etc from Samekh throughout the song, which is quite a feat in itself.
These things only sound apocryphal given Grant's relative degree of reclusiveness since the 80s; back in the 70s he was quite sociable with the OTO clique, out to the pub and so on. For a man who has traversed the uttermost abysses of the Mauve Zone, a trip to a dank Soho basement recording studio would have been as nothing.
O
Anticredos - Aug 14, 2007 - 09:27 AM
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There's also some other Chakra tracks that were on an acetate in John Balance's collection, namely: Thelema and The Red, White and Black. There is a third track on the disc which is the Kenneth Grant chant without music.
Some other Crowley references:
Paul Roland has written a lot of highly amusing songs on vaguely esoteric themes. There's a song called Aleister Crowley on his album Gargoyles.
The Auters had a song called Satan Wants Me, inspired Robert Irwin's excellent book of the same title. (As an aside, does anyone know is Irwin's book is in any way semi-autobiographical? Certain minor things in the text suggest to me that he has had an involvement in the occult in the past.)
Regarding Zorn, recently there's been Moonchild, Magick, Rituals and IAO. I've only heard the last of these, but thought it pretty good (IIRC). The music varies between long eastern percussion pieces (Sex Magick), very minimal electronics (Clavicle of Solomon), and rock (Leviathan). The electronic part made me thing of those Mort Garson records (The Occult and Atararaxia: The Unexplained), although they're more generally occult themed than Crowley-related.
As we were talking about Grant, the work of my acquaintances English Heretic are dotted with references of qliphoth, tangental tantrums, and the like. The latest one seems to take Crowley's Amalantrah working and LAM portrait as a starting point.
Edit: Having mentioned Chakra and English Heretic, I find out tonight that a track on the latter's latest release also uses the Liber Samekh chant!
lashtal - Aug 14, 2007 - 03:17 PM
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oneiros wrote: › No, it's quite true - I asked Grant in one of my letters, and he confirmed... These things only sound apocryphal given Grant's relative degree of reclusiveness since the 80s
Thanks for adding some substance to a tale that was to my mind apocryphal not because of Mr Grant social activity but because I was told by someone involved in the distribution of this and other not dissimilar items that Grant wasn't involved.
Glad you could clear it up, though...
anpi - Aug 14, 2007 - 05:46 PM
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Anticredos wrote: ›
Regarding Zorn, recently there's been Moonchild, Magick, Rituals and IAO. I've only heard the last of these, but thought it pretty good (IIRC). The music varies between long eastern percussion pieces (Sex Magick), very minimal electronics (Clavicle of Solomon), and rock (Leviathan). The electronic part made me thing of those Mort Garson records (The Occult and Atararaxia: The Unexplained), although they're more generally occult themed than Crowley-related.
Inspired by this thread, I bought Zorn's Moonchild. Patton's "singing" is extremely noisy and strange, just as I expected -- I think I like it!
xalhad - Aug 14, 2007 - 06:50 PM
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Check the Italian group Ain Soph particularly the Kshatriya Album. They do some material from The Heart of the Master
Bob
Anticredos - Aug 14, 2007 - 07:26 PM
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xalhad wrote: › Check the Italian group Ain Soph particularly the Kshatriya Album. They do some material from The Heart of the Master
I'll check this out. I've decided to give them a second chance after the terrible debacle I witnessed in London a couple of years ago. Having heard a track of theirs some years ago which consisted of some pretty atmospheric chthonic drones I went to their gig expecting mind-expanding ritual music. Instead I witnessed a bunch of Italians in stupid shades and shirts playing absolutely awful guitar rock. I left within 10 minutes. I was only really there to see their support act, Andrew King, anyway!
xalhad - Aug 14, 2007 - 08:49 PM
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They have become, and remain as far as I can tell, "a bunch of Italians in stupid shades and shirts" The ritual stuff is what they put out in the late 80's early 90's. Ars Regia is pretty much all darksome drone. Kshatiya and Ars Regia is the only music I own by them, having been warned off the rest by others with experieces similar to your own.
Anticredos - Aug 14, 2007 - 10:09 PM
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This is a problem I've found in my own music and the music in many others. When one first begins making music, one is not bound by concepts of artistry, competence or a rigidly defined aesthetic. Therefore the resultant music is more inuitive and inherently magical. What happens after the third or fourth album things usually get problematic, although few bands have sunk to the levels I witnessed on that night! I'll check out Kshatiya and Ars Regia, though.
Another artist in a similar vein I seem to remember was Sigillum S. I only ever got one album of theirs (Cybertantic Quantum Leaps) and remember being disappointed. However, having recently moved house I unearthed it and am just about to give it a spin.... I seem to remember the guy or an associate of his did a pretty terrible tarot set that looked as if it had been done on DeluxePaint.
Edit: Sigillum S - not as bad as I'd remembered - the fact that I could remember almost all the album (in spite of only hearing it a couple of times 10 years ago) is usually a decent indiction. Not great, by any standards, though!
dyulax - Sep 30, 2007 - 01:52 AM
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Raul Seixas, from Brazil.
Some references:
Sociedade Alternativa (Alternative Society):
"Go! Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole of the Law! The Law! (..) The number 666 is called Aleister Crowley"
Trem das Sete (Seven O'Clock Train):
"Comes from far giving the old aeon ashes"
A Lei (The Law):
(is Liber Oz singed)
A Maçã (Apple):
(about free love)
Gita:
(not Crowley but reference to Baghavad Gita's 10th Chapter)
Novo Aeon (New Aeon):
(.... and also the right to leave Jesus suffering...")
Some english musics:
http://raul-seixas.letras.terra.com.br/letras/80425/
http://raul-seixas.letras.terra.com.br/letras/101460/
Lillianu - Oct 04, 2007 - 08:42 AM
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Horemakhet wrote: › The band "Cathedral" has used the recording of Crowley reciting a Call of the Aethyr to great effect on the song Halo of Fire on the album VIIth Coming, but how involved any of them are is unknown to me. . .
I was going to mention this, and can confirm that singer Lee Dorian is very much involved with the occult in some way, not sure how though. Could just be a healthy interest or actually practices, though from listening to the other Cathedral albums, they are heavily influenced by all area's of Occult. My boyfriend speaks with him so will ask.
I also think Electric Wizard have a few references to AC too, but can't think off hand what they are right now.
Lillianu
Edited to add. This Electric Wizard track and lyrics conjure up images of the man himself when I hear or read them.
From the album We Live
Eko Eko Azarak
Black pyramids under martian sun,
Priests chant ancient necropsalms,
Summon winds across the desert sands,
Sun sets on this dying land.
nameless - Oct 13, 2007 - 11:10 AM
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human league-Dare
necro- prefix for death - "Nirvana"
estrella - Oct 13, 2007 - 11:43 PM
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John Frusciante (from the Red Hot Chili Peppers) has several solo records including 'Inside of Emptiness'. On his website he writes:
“Emptiness”, “I’m Around” and “666” were all written while I was reading a biography about Aleister Crowley. Each of these three songs, in their own way, are the result of me thinking about him and his life.
The title “666”, aside from being the name Aleister Crowley often signed letters as, is also a reference to the chorus' three bars of six which are interjected into the otherwise 4/4 feel of the song (something that was unintentional and subconscious)."
fugazi32 - Oct 15, 2007 - 08:50 AM
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Marilyn Manson's 'Misery Machine' song: 'We gotta ride to the Abbey of Thelema...'
nameless - Oct 18, 2007 - 02:40 PM
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Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs
nameless - Oct 18, 2007 - 02:42 PM
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by Ministry
vorski - Oct 18, 2007 - 03:35 PM
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John Frusciante (guitarist of the red hot chili peppers) has also written a song about crowley titled 666 on his solo album "Inside of emptiness".
Kalki93 - Oct 18, 2007 - 10:07 PM
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The Current 93 song The Inmost Light makes an obvious reference to Edward Alexander Crowley in the lyric.
"Edward Alexander falls alone in some sad home and sees clearly now the Inmost Light."
kickingthehabit - Feb 02, 2008 - 10:02 AM
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I was gonna mention Behemoth, their lyrics are 90 percent of the time referencing some aspect of occultism. They sometimes use an outside writer, but they have an album entitled Zos Kia Cultus, but it isnt centered specifically on Spare.With each song in the liner notes,they give an explanation, also something that Nile does, who have mainly an egyptian focus. Thelemic imagery is all over the place, also with goetic sigils too. Danney carey from Tool is a crowley nut, but I don't think too many references get into the music, though a strong occult connection was always present in their artwork and lyrics.
Also Today Is The Day did a split ep with another band that i cannot recall now, but the cover art features Crowley.
dougbrown93 - Apr 21, 2008 - 08:53 PM
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93 All
This thread has certainly matured in to a fine collection of AC references in music.
Anyway, i thought i had vaguely heard of most references. These range form the blatant ones (Ozzy, Bowie, Page, etc) to the obvious (and countless) Death Metal references to the intelligent references (Coil, TG, Current 93 et al).
However, this one came to me from the blue...so to speak.
Was trawling the newsgroups for new tunes (as you do) and searched for Crowley, Anger, Grant, etc and found a track with a direct reference to AC.
The track is called "What Killed Aleister Crowley?" by The Direct Hits.
I have been a big music fan since my early teens (early to mid 80s) that has included a wide range of tastes from the 60's to the current day and have NEVER heard of this band. A search of these forums did not provide any results.
If you google the band name and song you will be sure to find it on the likes of last.fm. I did stumble across a blog page that had the whole album available for download (it now being deleted presumably). Sadly i cant seem to find it again.
And what of the song....well it aint bad...but not the best. Think of the kind of bands around the time around the mid to late 70's (like Eddie & The Hot Rods and The Only Ones) and its in a similar vein ..but not as tuneful im afraid.
Certainly beats the awful Klaxons!
Keep them coming.
db
93 93/93
joe93 - Apr 23, 2008 - 08:13 AM
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"Was trawling the newsgroups for new tunes (as you do) and searched for Crowley, Anger, Grant, etc and found a track with a direct reference to AC.
The track is called "What Killed Aleister Crowley?" by The Direct Hits."
I seem to remember David Tibet reviewing this 'un when he was a journalist at "Sounds" in the early Eighties. He hated it.
I have a 7" by The Mothmen - Does it Matter Irene/Please Let Go on Absurd Records, a Manchester indie release circa 1979. Label A states "Mothmen for New Aeon Music" whilst the B side has, rather cryptically "All instruments, personnel and machines tuned to the 93rd current". They were an offshoot from Manchester satirists Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias and were pretty terrific until Charlie Drake joined and they morphed [warped?] into the appalling Simply Bland, er, I mean Red.
BlueKephra - Apr 23, 2008 - 10:17 AM
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The Crowley spoken word cd has been re-issued again.Couldn't isolate a link from the Aquarius website for just that item so I'll just copy/paste the blurb here.
"Folks had been bugging us to track down this disc for ages, Black Magic Recordings by none other than the "wickedest man in the world" (at least when he was still OF this world), but we hadn't been able to figure out where to get them. We assumed it must have been released on some tiny obscure microlabel, or maybe it was a bootleg or something, but lo and behold, it was right under or noses, released on good old Cleopatra Records. Home to much modern goth and industrial. And while we can definitely see how this stuff might appeal to the industrial goth kids, it is evil after all, and black magic, but it seems to us the folks that would be way more into this, are aQ customers, fans of the obscure and mysterious, found sounds and field recordings, this would fit perfectly between your Conet Project and your Ghost Orchid disc of EVP recordings (depending, we guess, on what strange alien alphabetization you use).
These recordings have been available before in various quasi bootleg editions, probably most notably as 1910-1914 Wax Cylinder Recordings released on the Transparency label. But they are the same recordings, since these are the only recordings of Crowley in existence.
It's been a while since we listened to the Transparency disc, but these tracks definitely sound a little cleaned up, which is almost too bad, but fear not, there's still plenty of hiss and crackle and warble and buzz and fuzz, it's taken from wax cylinders after all. Basically, this is a collection of Crowley recording various stories, poems, writings, incantations and magical spells. His delivery very songlike, chantlike at times, fans of the Doomsday Cult recordings will also probably love this. The highlight probably being the Call Of The Aethyr tracks, each delivered both in English, but also in Enochian, a magical language supposedly discovered and used by John Dee, magician to the court of Queen Elizabeth. It may sound like speaking in tongues, but it is in fact a real language, with grammar and syntax, rumored to be a degenerate form of the language spoken in the lost city of Atlantis.
Comes in one of those new fangled rounded-corner jewel cases, includes extensive liner notes, nothing about the recordings, but a fairly comprehensive history of Crowley's life. And while they last, it also comes with an Aleister Crowley patch AND pin! "
Also I recently had the misfortune to see the film "House of 1000 Corpses", made by that Rob Zombie fella. I'm pretty sure that Crowleys voice is used as part of the soundtrack towards the end, in the mad peoples house, I think its the Pleasure-Dome poem by someone i can't recall the name of right now....
BlueKephra - Apr 23, 2008 - 12:08 PM
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And another pimping of Coil, as their new old CD "The New Backwards" just arrived in the post. Track 7 is called "Paint Me As A Dead Soul". Hopefully no further explanation is necessary. It's not actually one of my favourite tracks on the CD, that honour goes to "Nature Is A Language", "Copacaballa", and "Princess Margaret's Man In The D'Jamalfna".
Khonsu - Apr 23, 2008 - 12:31 PM
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Behemoth, death metal band from poland, very popular & very, very thelemic:
http://www.behemoth.pl/
lashtal - Apr 23, 2008 - 02:21 PM
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As mentioned above: http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/index.php?n ... 4130#24130
Khonsu - Apr 24, 2008 - 12:55 PM
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Sorry, I missed that topic, there are more intresting behemoth albums like thelema6, demigod and last apostasy. The band members wear unicrsal hexagrams too.. there are intresting song chours Apo panthos kako daimonos in song Decade of therion, akadua in death metal version titled hekau418.. promotherion from last album as symbolic fusion of prometheus and therion.. very interesting.
Someone mentioned band Therion, they are also occult band but some of them are ordo draconis members and they use most of their simbolism. But behemoth like coil are mostly thelemic.
Sorry for english.
dyulax - Apr 24, 2008 - 02:27 PM
Post subject: Raul Seixas in english!!
Some Raul Seixas' songs in english:
Fool's Gold:
http://exponencial.br/~alan/Fool_s_Gold.mp3
I am ("I am the Law of Thelema".. & See Baghavad Gita 10th Chapter...)
http://exponencial.br/~alan/I_am_Gita.mp3
Love is Magick ("under will, love is the law" - (9+3 = 13) )
http://exponencial.br/~alan/Love_Is_Magic.mp3
Morning Train (Train = Aeon, the sages (Magus) with their words)
http://exponencial.br/~alan/Morning_Train.mp3
Orange Juice (extra.. rsrs)
http://exponencial.br/~alan/Orange_Juice.mp3
Horemakhet - Aug 25, 2008 - 01:45 AM
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On the back of the Door's '13' album ( a compilation ), there is a photo of the band posing around a small bust of Crowley. Jim Morrison is most likely the reason for this photo, as he was involved with a self proclaimed 'witch', as shown in naked splendour in 'The Doors' film. He most likely would have stumbled across Crowley's writing at some point, as he was an avid reader on obscure subjects, but it was probably his association with this woman & her Library that really turned him onto it.
I first heard about this almost 20 years ago, when a 'concerned' Christian woman, managed to coerce myself & a friend of mine to watch a documentary called 'Hell's Bells', an 'expose' on the 'Evil' of certain Rock & Roll bands. From what I remember, there were many references to Crowley, as he is a convenient umbrella to cover many bands with a 'Satanic!' label. This included Zeppelin, of course, but I was intrigued that they did enough research to discover that particular photo of the Doors. It is bizarre in a way, because it is the only direct & 'official' acknowledgment of influence or inspiration that they gave aside from the origin of their name itself, & the "end of the night" lyrics....
FraterLucius - Aug 27, 2008 - 03:15 PM
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Italian post punk Thelema come to mind, with tracks such as "Aiwass", "Phoenix Mass" and "Magick" on their first album Tantra. Very much reccomended for those into that kind of eerie, eighties, post punk sounds.
There also is a compilation that came out as a double cd in 418 copies by czech label HORUS and simply called AL. It came out for the 100 years of Liber Al and features bands such as Hexentanz, Psychonaut, Unto Ashes, Genesis P-Orrige, Atrium Carceri, Belborn and This Morn' Omnia. So it's kinda more appealing to the grey/brown area fans.
el23 - Aug 27, 2008 - 04:26 PM
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A Canadian band called The Tea Party has a song called "Heaven Coming Down" that uses "love under will" as a lyric. There are also other songs from each of their albums that reference the occult, including "The Master and Margarita," "Babylon," "Inanna," "Drawing Down the Moon," "Fire in the Head," et al. Actually they were quite a popular band in the country through the 90s, so their music is fairly accessible to fans of all music genres, particularly folk, classic rock, industrial and world music.
bune63 - Aug 27, 2008 - 07:14 PM
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FraterLucius wrote: › Italian post punk Thelema come to mind, with tracks such as "Aiwass", "Phoenix Mass" and "Magick" on their first album Tantra. Very much reccomended for those into that kind of eerie, eighties, post punk sounds.
93,
oh my my, it was so long ago...
Thank you for remembering us... 
93, 93/93
Bune63 (Massimo/Stuart of Thelema)
ianrons - Aug 28, 2008 - 01:47 PM
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93 Bune63,
I enjoyed your Vision and the Voice album, but who is that reciting Kubla Khan?
93 93/93
Ian
bune63 - Aug 28, 2008 - 02:32 PM
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93 Ian,
ianrons wrote: › I enjoyed your Vision and the Voice album, but who is that reciting Kubla Khan?
Would you believe it? I don't know.
This is how the story went. We were recording in Tuscany, near the place where Adi Newton lived at the time, and as he was under contract with our same label we asked him to recite KK for the track. He said "yes" and then didn't show up in the studio
Then I remembered I had an old tape a friend had given me, with someone reciting KK: we cleaned the sound, cut a lot of white noise off and used it.
Years later we learnt where the voice might come from: it seems that an early version of Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome starts with a strange intro, which I never saw. It should be titled AAA (Anger's Aquarian Arkana) and it should be fixed images fading in and out (Crowley ktl) with KK recited by someone. The guy who gave me this info said he owned a videotape of this broadcasted by some German TV.
I've never been able to check if this is true, and this is all I know.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
93, 93/93.
Bune 63
PS: How did you get that old CD?
FraterLucius - Aug 28, 2008 - 04:45 PM
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bune63 wrote: ›
FraterLucius wrote: › Italian post punk Thelema come to mind, with tracks such as "Aiwass", "Phoenix Mass" and "Magick" on their first album Tantra. Very much reccomended for those into that kind of eerie, eighties, post punk sounds.
93,
oh my my, it was so long ago...
Thank you for remembering us...
93, 93/93
Bune63 (Massimo/Stuart of Thelema)
93 Massimo,
Are you kidding?
As an italian musician in the neofolk scene such as myself you and Limbo have been on my playlists since the early 90s. Kudos for the burnt memories cd as well! And send me a pm if you plan on playing again sometime soon or just to exchange contacts. I don't want to highjack this thread
Actually I'm sure there's a collaboration with Thelema on Limbo's Vox Insana called Magick, and other tracks such as 93 Lashtal 93 and Libido Mater Nostra, so I'm not too off topic.
ianrons - Aug 28, 2008 - 08:36 PM
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93 Bune 63,
Now that's a mystery! It sounds like someone from the English literary scene of the 1920s, but I could be way out. I think it might be someone well known, because the recital is so special, quite perfect in rhythm and emphasis, in what (I would like to think) may be a continuation of a tradition begun by Coleridge himself. Coleridge used to recite Kubla Khan in a very particular way, it was reported of him, that would induce in the listeners a kind of light ecstatic trance. The version you have on the CD is so good that I am led to suspect a connection, and I would be quite disappointed if the universe did anything less for such a strange and visionary poem! Of course it could almost be Crowley; but whatever, for me it counts as a valuable relic from history, and ought to be preserved. So thank you for doing that by putting it on a CD, but don't lose the original!
Actually I would very much like to hear it without the backing track, because although your backing works gorgeously well, I can't help wondering whether you've added silence at certain points to give space for bridge sections, affecting the rhythm of the poem. Whatever you've done, the overall effect is excellent, and as you point out the CD is very old so why not re-release it? Who could fail to buy a CD with songs that have names like "Walking with Aiwass in my Head"? I seem to recall buying the CD the year I (first) joined OTO, so it would be about 13 years old I suppose. Mine has a "PROMO" label so I reckon Mick Mercer ripped you off
93 93/93
Ian
h2h - Aug 28, 2008 - 09:21 PM
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FraterLucius wrote: › There also is a compilation that came out as a double cd in 418 copies by czech label HORUS and simply called AL. It came out for the 100 years of Liber Al and features bands such as Hexentanz, Psychonaut, Unto Ashes, Genesis P-Orrige, Atrium Carceri, Belborn and This Morn' Omnia. So it's kinda more appealing to the grey/brown area fans.
I believe that is Martin Mrskos label: www.horus.cz
Also, Tarwater's Cry of the Second Aethyr off their album Rabbit Moon.
przm28 - Sep 01, 2008 - 01:06 AM
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Nebula.
http://www.myspace.com/nebulamusic
lashtal - Sep 01, 2008 - 10:17 AM
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FraterLucius wrote: › There also is a compilation that came out as a double cd in 418 copies by czech label HORUS and simply called AL.
I reviewed it on this site at the time of its release: http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Reviews-req ... d-34.phtml
teth - Sep 01, 2008 - 12:07 PM
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93
Italian band Limbo released several album. The first full Lp bears those (great) songs named in a previous post. On the cover of the 2nd one (“Evirazione Totemica Seriale”) there’s a Mark of the Beast . There was another band called Lashtal back in the 80ies, but Massimo is surely more knowledgeable about it.
Two other (metal) bands from Italy comes to my mind: Death SS -their most successful album was “Do What Thou Wilt” (1997) and was almost a thelemic concept-album; and on their anthology “Horror Music 1979-1996” they had a 7fold seal on the cover. Black metal band Necromass had ATU XV on their “Mysteria Mystica..” album. Their last mini-cd had bits of AL I in their lyrics.
Other references that I can remember this Monday morning:
-Texan metal band Magus (later known as Absu) had an unicursal hexagram and caduceus on their first 7’’ep “Rumination of debauchery”.
-Australian artist Louis Tillet had ATU XVI on the cover of the Lp “Ego tripping at the gates of hell”.
93, 93/93
FraterLucius - Sep 01, 2008 - 01:42 PM
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teth wrote: › 93
Italian band Limbo released several album. The first full Lp bears those (great) songs named in a previous post. On the cover of the 2nd one (“Evirazione Totemica Seriale”) there’s a Mark of the Beast . There was another band called Lashtal back in the 80ies, but Massimo is surely more knowledgeable about it.
Two other (metal) bands from Italy comes to my mind: Death SS -their most successful album was “Do What Thou Wilt” (1997) and was almost a thelemic concept-album; and on their anthology “Horror Music 1979-1996” they had a 7fold seal on the cover. Black metal band Necromass had ATU XV on their “Mysteria Mystica..” album. Their last mini-cd had bits of AL I in their lyrics.
Other references that I can remember this Monday morning:
-Texan metal band Magus (later known as Absu) had an unicursal hexagram and caduceus on their first 7’’ep “Rumination of debauchery”.
-Australian artist Louis Tillet had ATU XVI on the cover of the Lp “Ego tripping at the gates of hell”.
93, 93/93
Wow, Italian bands seem to be quite a few. Black metal band Necromass also had a side project of one of his members called GodFuck93 which IIRC was really thelemic in themes.
teth - Sep 01, 2008 - 02:32 PM
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93
the GF93 project was of former Necromass singer; the "93" was (I think) rather a kind of tribute to Current 93 and to Limbo, rather than to Thelema or to AC; the lyrics were about rape&abuse, so not that much "thelemic" .
93, 93/93
FraterLucius - Sep 01, 2008 - 07:31 PM
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teth wrote: › 93
the GF93 project was of former Necromass singer; the "93" was (I think) rather a kind of tribute to Current 93 and to Limbo, rather than to Thelema or to AC; the lyrics were about rape&abuse, so not that much "thelemic" .
93, 93/93
I didn't remember so correctly then, did I?
s.mrt - Sep 02, 2008 - 11:28 AM
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Greetings,
Been wondering whether a list has been compiled yet from the results of this thread? It seems the oto.no site mentioned earlier is no more...
In the meantime I'd like to add a few more to the pile,
Sol Invictus: Palace of Worms [All things strange and rare]
features a large section of Hymn to Pan
Psychonaut: Hymn to Pan [The Witches Sabbath]
Although the CD is largely a triibute to A.O.S. the final track is a recording of the Hymn to Pan. The cover also features the Crowley painting "4 red monks carrying a black goat across the snow to nowhere".
The Oroonies: The woods are alive with the smell of his coming [single]
Again quotes sections of Hymn to Pan
Bocca Juniors: Raise (63 steps to heaven) [Give Peace a Dance]
"Do what you will shall be the whole of the law ... raise you hands if you think you understand, raise your standards if you don't"
Sungod: Sungod
Credits says that the CD includes sections of Liber Al and the Gnostic Mass.
Steve.
BlueKephra - Sep 08, 2008 - 05:51 PM
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Ok, so this is a reference to A.C in music journalism, but i didn't think it needed it's own thread.
The new issue of The Wire has a review of the recent Supersonic Festival in Birmingham. An interesting sounding event at the festival is described thus:
"In the cinema, esoteric magnet Mark Pilkington of Strange Attractor is there to offer an instructive guide "From Headbangers To Heretics", skilfully tracing the relationship between occultism and popular music. Aleister Crowley is accurately painted as a perverse polymath and proto-rockstar, Austin Spare the precocious Syd Barrett of magickal surrealism, Alex Sanders the hip priest of new witchcraft. Sanders, we are told, choreographed the stage antics of Leicester's outlandish black magic rock group Coven, the nearly-men of heavy metal who, by a quirk of fate , were usurped by the charlatan Ozzy Osbourne. We are left with the question, what if Coven had succeeded instead of Black Sabbath?"
GuidoW - Sep 17, 2008 - 02:14 PM
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In my search on connections between magic/esotericism and music, I came across this blog entry on Killing Joke and Crowley.
Seems that there are numerous references to Crowley in the lyrics and artwork of Killing Joke.
Guido
lashtal - Sep 17, 2008 - 04:57 PM
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Killing Joke are mentioned at length elsewhere on LAShTAL.COM, not least because they are, in the opinion of this humble webmaster, one of the finest bands currently recording and touring. There are many Thelemic references and their performances are both celebratory and ritualistic.
I'm going to experience them yet again in London on 4 October and would recommend that any other members here also pay the gig a visit.
I would also refer anyone interested to singer Jaz Coleman's "The Courtauld Talks" wherein much of relevance is discussed...
kidneyhawk - Sep 18, 2008 - 03:55 AM
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Paul-
I can hardly add to your comments re: KJ save to say they are as much a phenomenon as a band.
Whereas it is very interesting to catalogue every mention of Crowley or his work in modern music, it goes without saying that many touch the themes in a superficial fashion. There is NOTHING superficial in Killing Joke. Through their various "incarnations," the music has been crafted of blood, sweat and tears.
I'm also glad you mentioned the "Courtauld Talks." It's a harrowing "lecture" and commands attention. That presentation was my "introduction" to the "Old Ones" of the fabled Necronomicon and the relevance of that mythos to modern human society as distinct from juvenile morbidity or superstitious silliness. Something well expressed, I thought, by "Simon" in his follow-up work, "Gates of the Necronomicon."
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I'm going to experience them yet again in London on 4 October
You lucky, lucky man. KJ is like a time-bomb. You never know when the next time will be the LAST.
And cheers to Guido for the link.
Tapping Into The Aeon,
Kyle