Mysterious Sabbats and Voodoo hysteria designed to channel mans spiritual growth with the gods has long been a part of mans passion to touch the dark side of his existence. With the advent of Christianity the appearance of the Devil incarnate has given those seekers of dark mystery a more tangible platform in which to vent their lusts for depravity and unquenchable thirst for supposedly forbidden knowledge. The Satanic element in music has always been a sanctuary for non-conformists and their like to step out of the conventional boundaries of society and indulge in much of the taboo activities shunned by the religious restraints of day to day existence. During the middle ages the primitive urges of the people were severely suppressed by the fanatical dominance of the Church and if one were to choose between the sombre hymns of the pews to the drunken frivolity of the folk based tales of superstition and Magic, one can at once understand the vehemence the later received from ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The promulgation of religious persecution during the 15th and 17th centuries created a stark picture of witch-hunts, Devil worshipping and torture, all of which has given boundless inspiration for the modern occult/ Black metal band. The irony of the Christian Church inflicting such wanton brutality in its own fervour to purge the sexual improprieties and so called heretical views of men has also added to the delusion of its own credibility. To think of the suffering Christians have received from other establishments, the anti-Semitic policies deployed by certain factions and countless episodes of in house cruelty [most notably by the inquisition] and the subsequent fragmentation of the Roman Church into self governed Christian denominations, all of which has given the cause of God a very bad smell of hypocrisy and self righteousness.