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Satan's Music ROCK N’ ROLL Satan’s Music! Satan's Music "It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools." -Ecclesiastes 7:5 Satanic Quotes by Rock Musicians Imagine (John Lennon's unrealistic fantasy. Also, comments about McCartney's Satanic album cover...RAM) The Satanic Roots of Rock by Donald Phau The Demonic Led Zeppelin Carlos Santana and Demonism! (Guitarist Jimmy Page of Zeppelin is a devout Ozzy Osbourne follower of Satanist, Aleister EXPOSED! Crowley, who proclaimed himself as "The Beast 666." In 1971, guitarist Jimmy Page bought Crowley’s Boleskine House on the shore of Loch Ness where Crowley practiced his Hellish, Satanic sex-magick Oz Oz zy Osbourne: The Rest rituals, including human of the Story (One of sacrifices.) today's hottest celebrities is Ozzy Osbourne. MTV's reality program on The Dolly Parton Sings Led Osbournes is currently Zeppelin! the most watched cable Johnny Cash Sings Danzig! program on TV. The Rock Music is the Devil's Osbournes even won an Advocate Emmy for best Reality So-called "Christian" Group program. "DC Talk" Ozzy is now the darling of Rock And Roll Music Moves the media and Hollywood. People ("Rockers" tell like it Even the President of the is.) United States has recently Christian Rock: Questions honored Ozzy. But there's and Answers more to Ozzy Osbourne Rock Music and 666 (Rock than most people know. music for years has Much more. Here is "the propagated 666 — The Mark rest of the story" about of the Beast. Here's the Ozzy Osbourne). proof.) Order "Hell's Bells" Video Gotee Records (co-founded (Journey through the dark by Toby McKeehan of dc side of rock as Hell's Bells Talk) re-releases Godspell. unmasks the message (For the first time ever, a behind the music. There "Christian" company is you will look squarely into distributing Godspell. the face of something Godspell claims to be based beyond the human on the Gospel according to potential - the spiritual Matthew — but is it?) power of rock and roll.) Michael W. Smith's song is Hell's Bells Transcript: disqualified from the Dove Part 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 Awards! (Find out why the Perverted Teen Idols (If Gospel Music Association you think Ozzy or Marilyn (GMA) disqualified Smith's Manson are the only song "Love Me Good" from threats to your child, think the song-of-the-year again.) nomination. This one is a shocker!) The Sickening Truth About Premature Death of Rock Marilyn Manson Stars (A detailed list of over The Creepy Marilyn 300 rock star's death. Manson Includes summary of The Men Who Rejected causes. The Average Age at Jesus Christ Death of Americans is 75.8 Is Marilyn Manson to years. The Average Age at Blame for the Columbine Death of a rock star is only Killings? 36.9 years. Very The Blasphemous Music interesting.) of of Harvey Danger Music - The Beat of Society Rock Music Resources Freddie Mercury (lead More singer of Queen) Dies at Why Should the Devil Have 45 of AIDS (Read the sad All the Good Music? testimony about Freddie's CCM artist Steve Camp reckless life of sodomy, "nails" CCM. (CCM artist fornication, illegal drugs Steve Camp calls for and materialism. He died reformation in the CCM in London in his Industry. Camp lists the $4,000,000 home in 1991. compromise, Satanic He carried none of his infiltration and perversion in wealth beyond the grave. CCM.) He had such a beautiful Elvis or Evils? voice, but used his talents Beatles Named "Icons of for the devil. How sad! Century" (Sadly, they were How tragic! Where is icons of rebellion and Freddie Mercury now? immorality) Hell!) Hell Inside the Earth (This is The Nature of Rock Music where the religion of and the Future of CCM immoral sex, substance (Carnal "Christian" Music) abuse, and Devilish music Rock Music and 666 will take you!) Christian or Satanic? Patricia (Kennealy) Morrison of the Doors was a Wiccan "I'd Prefer The Devil" Witch! Christian Rock, Neko Case sings, "It's the Blessing or Devil I love" Madonna Worships Satan! Blasphemy? Rock Music Kills! Christian Rock: Rock Music And Mice Blessing or The Rolling Stones and Blasphemy (updated Satanism with more artists, The Curse of Demon more pictures and Possessed Musicians now with RealAudio And the world passeth music clips. Some of away... (the suicide of this stuff you've just Boston singer, Brad got to see and hear to Delp, is just another believe it!) tragic example of where the Rock-N-Roll religion leads!) Michael Jackson: The Man With Many Faces More Satanism... the Aleister Crowley and band KILLERS Rock N' Roll Country Music Aleister Crowley's Television (CMT) is of Influence in Music the Devil The Sinister Aleister How Can Music Be Crowley Demonically Inspired? Why People Are So John Todd - a former Confused About God Illuminatist: The It's Time For Me To Fly Witchcraft of Rock & (by REO Speedwagon) Roll (free 28 Min. Video - The Beach Boys and Who is John Todd?) Satan Goth Will Destroy Your Prince now a Demonic Child Jehovah's Witness Rock Music and Beyonce Knowles is Witchcraft of the Devil Rock 'n' Roll's Hall of It's A Freak Show! Shame Elton John's Twisted Concept of God Aerosmith Promotes Elton John, Bernie Homosexuality Taupin, and Witchcraft Kurt Cobain of Nirvana says, "Get www.a-visao-do-inferno.blogspot.com stoned and worship Satan!" www.a-visao-do-inferno.blogspot.com The music of hell! www.a-visao-do-inferno.blogspot.com David Bowie in Rolling Stone magazine (Feb. 12, 1976), stunned the music world, when he stated: "Rock has always been THE DEVIL'S MUSIC . I believe rock and roll is dangerous . I feel we're only heralding SOMETHING EVEN DARKER THAN OURSELVES." (Rolling Stone, Feb. 12, 1976) Freddie Mercury Pictured Above (Lead Singer of Queen) Led Zeppelin (Left clockwise to Right: Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones) Hear backward Satanic Lyrics of Led Zeppelin More Backward Masking The Rock N' Roll Death List The Beatles Photo to left: Most people recognize the Satanic hand sign which John Lennon is making at the bottom right; but, few people realize that the "ok" sign which Paul McCartney is making at the bottom left is also very Satanic. The "ok" sign is actually three 6's, each of the three vertical fingers forming an individual 6. 666! Paul McCartney said, "We probably seem to be anti-religious. none of us believes in God." (Hit Parader, Jan 1970, p.15) John Lennon, in his book, A Spaniard in the Works, portrays Jesus Christ as, "Jesus El Pifico, a garlic-eating, stinking little yellow, greasy fascist bastard catholic Spaniard." (A Spaniard in the Works, p.14). Lennon also made that infamous statement, "Christianity will go, it will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that. I'm right and will be proved right. .We're more popular than Jesus now." (San Francisco Chronicle, April 13, 1966, p.26) The cover of Sgt. Pepper's showed the Beatles with a background of, according to Ringo Starr, people "we like and admire" (Hit Parade, Oct. 1976, p.14). Paul McCartney said of Sgt. Pepper's cover, ". we were going to have photos on the wall of all our HEROES . ." (Musician, Special Collectors Edition, - Beatles and Rolling Stones, 1988, p.12). One of the Beatle's heroes included on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's was — the infamous Satanist, Aleister Crowley! Most people, especially in 1967, did not even know who Crowley was — but the Beatles certainly did. Satanic Worship! Sgt. Pepper ". we were going to have photos on the wall of all our HEROES . ." "Hero" Aleister Crowley is second Click here for larger picture from left on the top row: The Beatles apparently took Crowley's teaching very serious — Beatle John Lennon, in an interview, says the "whole idea of the Beatles" was — Crowley's infamous "do what thou wilt": "The whole Beatle idea was to do what you want, right? To take your own responsibility, do what you want and try not to harm other people, right? DO WHAT THOU WILST, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody. ." ("The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono", by David Sheff and G. Barry Golson, p. 61) Frank Zappa Frank Zappa made the following statement, "If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good - and CARES about any of it - to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working." Frank Zappa -The Man Without God Rocker Frank Zappa (who discovered the awful truth December 4, 1993 the second he died) proudly boasted: "I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshippers who are called 'groupies.' Girls will give their bodies to musicians as you would give a sacrifice to a god." (Peters Brothers, What About Christian Rock, p. 17) .
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