The Devil Rides In - Spellbinding Satanic Magick & The Rockult 1967-1974, Various Artists 3CD Box Set

• 3CD SET EXPLORING ROCK’S DARK UNDERBELLY AND EXPLORATIONS IN THE OCCULT, WITCHCRAFT, BAD MAJICK AND SATANISM FROM 1966 ONWARDS.

• FROM MONSTROUS HEAVYWEIGHTS GENESIS, JETHRO TULL, FREE, BLACK WIDOW, COZY POWELL AND VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR TO UNEXPECTED DABBLERS SUCH AS SANDIE SHAW, STRAWBS AND DAVE DEE AND CO.

• CURATED AND OVERSEEN BY MARTIN ‘CALLY’ CALLOMON OF ANTAR, BAM-CARUSO AND PENKILN BURN STOCK.

• HARD ROCK, FOLK DEVILS, EVIL JAZZ, BEELZEFUNK AND INCANTATIONS ABOUND!

As the Fab dream of the first half of the 1960s began to fade and the acid took its unpredictable hold, spirituality in its many forms provided some outlet for many of pop and rock’s weariest souls and most enthusiastic experimenters. As the rock became harder and more progressive, the drugs grew dirtier and peace and love began to falter, the individualistic indulgence promised by the occult and its many sisters drew its cloak around already established acts and birthed countless other bastard and hybrid offspring.

Divided into several offshoots and outlets - Buried Underground, Phantom Sabbaths, Popular Satanism, She Devils, Folk Devils, Evil Jazz, Beelzefunk and Incantation Chants – ‘The Devil Rides In’ captures a snapshot of that time and place, when rock, jazz, funk and folk took a step into the darkness, returning with tales of possession, witchcraft, covens, occult ceremonies, black masses, sabbats and encounters with He Who Walks Backwards himself. Enthusiastic and celebratory in places, damaged and cautionary in others, these artists offered a counter balance to the thread of Christian and Eastern spirituality also working its way into rock at that time. Sometimes overtly, sometimes veiled, but always with something to say.

Curated by the inimitable Cally, and accompanied by an insightful essay and accompanying imagery, this set promises release for freaks, hard rockers, greasers, dark folkies, avant jazzers and all in between.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

1 ATOMIC ROOSTER Death Walks Behind You

2  FREE Seven Angels

3 ARGENT Dance In The Smoke

4  THE GUN Race With Devil

5  COMPLEX Witch’s Spell

6  LEVIATHAN Flames

7  WRITING ON THE WALL Lucifer Corpus

8  GENESIS One-Eyed Hound

9  HARSH REALITY Heaven And Hell

10  VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR The White Hammer

11  DR. Z Evil Woman’s Manly Child

12  ZIOR Entrance Of The Devil

13  SAM GOPAL The Dark Lord

14  THE OPEN MIND Magic Potion

15  ELIAS HULK Nightmare

16  WARHORSE Ritual

DISC TWO

1  THE FLYING MACHINE The Devil Has Possession Of Your Mind

2  THE CREATION Nightmares

3  THE EASYBEATS Heaven And Hell

4  ELMER GANTRY’S VELVET OPERA Talk Of The Devil

5  FANCY Between The Devil And Me

6  ICARUS The Devil Rides Out

7  THE IN-BE-TWEEN Girl Child, I Am An Evil Witchman 8 NIRVANA Christopher Lucifer

9  PAUL’S TROUBLES The Devil Jumps Up

10  TINTERN ABBEY Witchcraft

11  THE MOVE Night Of Fear

12  CURVED AIR Screw

13  JACULA Long Black Magic Night

14  JULIAN’S TREATMENT The Black Tower

15  MAN Erotica

16  SANDIE SHAW Sympathy For The Devil

17  COVEN Pact With Lucifer

18  JADE Bad Magic

19  JETHRO TULL The Witch’s Promise

20  STRAWBS Keep The Devil Outside

21  COMUS The Bite

DISC THREE

1 THIRD EAR BAND Devil Weed

2 FAMILY Anyway

3 MIGHTY BABY Devil’s Whisper

4 THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN Devil’s Grip

5 BLODWYN PIG The Modern Alchemist

6 MANFRED MANN CHAPTER III Devil Woman

7  CURTIS KNIGHT ZEUS The Devil Made Me Do It

8  ONYX Air

9  SHAPE OF THE RAIN Big Black Bird

10  JASON CREST Black Mass

11  THE ACCENT Red Sky At Night

12  DAVE DEE, DOZY, BEAKY, MICK AND TITCH The Sun Goes Down

13  THE LAURELS Devil’s Well

14  TEAR GAS Witches Come Today

15  BLACK WIDOW Come To The Sabbat

16  LUCIFER’S FRIEND Ride The Sky

17  COZY POWELL Dance With The Devil

18  TITANIC Heia Valenga