Lucifer Rising (book)

This article is about a 1999 book by Gavin Baddely. For the earlier 1993 Virgin New Adventures novel by Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane, see Lucifer Rising.

Lucifer Rising (ISBN 0-85965-280-7) is a book written by author and Church of Satan priest Gavin Baddeley and published by Plexus Publishing in 1999. The book covers both the recent and ancient history of Satanism, and provides an examination of modern Satanist culture.

Organized into three parts, much of the book is composed of interviews with a wide variety of people associated with Satanic religion or its concomitant aesthetic, including Anton Szandor LaVey, Kenneth Anger, and Kerry Bolton.

Other individuals discussed in Lucifer Rising include Aleister Crowley, Michael Aquino, and Charles Manson.

Synopsis

The book is divided into three parts, the first of which covers Satanism's history from the beginnings of the Black Mass to the aristocratic members of the Hellfire Club.

The second half looks at Satanism in the twentieth century, including Aleister Crowley, the Church of Satan, the Manson Family, and the growth of occult-inspired bands such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin.

The final section of the book examines the new waves of Thrash Metal, Death Metal, and Scandinavian Black Metal, the Burzum's Varg Vikernes Euronymous' murder, the neo-Nazi element and the religious right's courts quest of heavy metal.

The book is richly decorated throughout with graphics, mediaeval ornaments, and exquisite images, and it also includes a comment from Anton LaVey, author of The Satanic Bible.