Lucifer Rising: A Book of Sin, Devil Worship & Rock'n'roll

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Lucifer Rising is the first populist work to assess this unique cultural phenomenon in depth. It is divided into three parts:'The History of Satanism' tells of the birth of the Black Mass, the fashionable sinners of the Hellfire club, Milton's Satan and the rise of the Satanic anti-hero.'Satanism in the 20th Century' includes the 'Great Beast', Aleister Crowley, the links between Satanism and psychedelia, and the Rolling Stones' ill-fated Altamont concert, the Process Church of the Final Judgement, and the Manson Family, occult film-maker Kenneth Anger, and the formation of the Church of Satan by Anton LaVey, Satan at the cinema, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and the birth of occult-influenced rock music.'The Satanic Millennium' looks at the neo-Nazi element which joined the Church of Satan in the 1980s, 'Satanic crime' and Christian Fundamentalism's courtroom pursuit of heavy metal, the new waves of Thrash Metal, Black Metal and Death Metal, including interviews with Deicide and Danzig, Genesis P. Orridge, the Scandinavian Black Metal scene and the murder case surrounding the band Burzum, Marilyn Manson and the new Satanic Millennium. Lucifer Rising is lavishly illustrated throughout with stunning photographs, graphics and artwork secured from the Satanists themselves, from medieval woodcarvings of Hell to softcore photos of Satanic babes.