Pseudo-Satanism in the Hedge Row

“In their ongoing effort to be naughtier than the Beatles, the Rolling Stones began making satanic allusions in 1967 . . . Jimmy Page, the lead guitarist of Led Zeppelin, was a Crowley fan even before he accepted the Lucifer Rising job . . . By this route Satanism became heavy metal’s semiofficial religion, observed by groups from Black Sabbath to Judas Priest, Kingdom Come to Slayer. Heavy metal also contains another pseudospiritual strain . . .” (Martha Bayles, Hole in our Soul, p. 238).