Time to up the metal to 11

I feel the need to metal-up my blog a little bit.  The last few posts have been about an American Idol contestant (granted a very rock one), and my Band of The Week was Richie Kotzen who is more blues rock than hard rock.  
Today I present you with a playlist of music by Satanists, in honor of Anton Laveys death, which was 12 years ago today.  Kinda sad that he died just 2 days before Halloween.....

This playlist was actually a lot harder to come up with than you would think.  I wanted to include metal bands that had actual links to Satanism, not just a few songs that mention the guy.  So, King Diamond was the obvious choice since he is so vocal about his beliefs.  Marilyn Manson of course has worked with teh Church of Satan, Marduk still claims their message is Satan, and early Gorgoroth, seemed to be fairly legit as well.  Deicide's Glen Benton won't shut the fuck up about Satan and his love for him, but something tells me this guy is all tongue in cheek.
As for Venom, I included them simply because so many people took them seriously even when they didn't.As far as bands accused of Satanism- the list is endless. Black Sabbath, Motley Crue, Judas Priest, Slayer, KISS (remember them being called Knights In Satans Service) and just about anyone else in metal... Tipper Gore even tried to claim Twisted Sister were Satanists!  Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page might have had a fascination with Aleister Crowley, but LZ is in no way a Satanic band.