Chapter Eight: A Need to Return to the Satanic 80’s
What was graffiti back then? It was all Satanic. Inverted pentagrams and crosses were tacked on in all places. Sometimes strange places, mysteriously so. Then along came Gangster rap and the only thing really ever seen was one's gang name. One day I was at the library looking for that most Satanic of books. I wasn’t in the occult section however. I was in the fantasy section. (You know, like sword and Sorcery.) I wanted to sum it all up. What was the most Satanic among them? Whose tones were darker and stories most brilliantly Satanic? After a couple of hours I decided on 1980s Del Rey books. Del Rey being a publisher, not an author.
It didn’t at all surprise me to find they were from the 80s. I looked over the 90s books and they were a large leap away from it all. They began writing more in terms of old myths and less Satanic laden things like instead of demons and hell, instead of Satanic invocations, no religion of it all really.
That point given, the same thing happened to heavy metal. The same thing happened to movies, horror movies moved from spawns of hell Warlock for example, to just naturally born humans who were psychopaths.
I think the biggest thing to have caused the Satanic 80s was D&D. It seeped into video games which were the spawn of the Devil itself for a devote Christian. It was controversial to be Satanic. But shifting from the 80s to the 90s we see instead gangster movies based on gangster rap or whatever came first, the chicken or egg. Fantasy books and stories helped. Those were largely based off of D&D. In reality it all helped out the other in bringing it into a cultural aspect of a kind.
Clothing styles were more Satanic as well, at least for some.
People took Satanism very seriously and found a wide array of music to draw from. The late 70s started to indicate this would happen with The Omen itself, and The Exorcist. It was just the most natural time for it to start. But the world became more atheistic and simple minded. The new generation just didn’t care if their kids were Satanic, and so much of its appeal was gone. Rebelling changed into the form of that poetically helpless gang entrapped individual who must struggle to survive.
How few people collect Satanic things. I’ve never even heard of some such person whose collections are based on it. Satanic books and music are collected. However there is so much more to it that that. As for now we are lucky. There is a whole treasure trove to draw from online. We didn’t have that in the 80s. So let’s collect to enjoy, listen to, read, watch, and preserve. Maybe someday we will even have a Satanic Museum.