Black Mass Appeal: Modern Satanism for the Masses

We curate the whitewashed history of dark arts.

All the devilish secrets of SF's most secretive society are exposed--including the ones where Bohemian Grove members just expose themselves.

We're back on the road to Perdition with Taylor from Antibot and Drew from Genetically Modified Skeptic.

Blessed are the forgetful, but we're cursed with "Michelle Remembers" instead.

Wind yourself up, constrict your assumptions, and get ready to sink your teeth into another Serpentine Symposium all about our Ophidian Friends.

We're possessed by both Beelzebub and Bedlam in our unholy-but-wholesome rundown of mental health challenges for Satanists.

Virtue is its own reward, but in show businses they expect gold too, so we're getting in on award season with our own entirely subjective (and Satanic) movie awards show.

Just in time for our favorite holiday about cutting off a saint's head, we're baring it all and confronting the naked truth about sex, secularism, and Satan.

What are...your chances of beating our reigning world Devil Jeopardy champion on this, the most pernicious parody of America's favorite answer-and-question quiz show?

  We're injecting something sinister into your stream as the Infernal Farmhouse joins us for a juicy discourse on bloody religions, superstitions, and magic.

Stop the presses! We need to catch up.

  No rules! Anything goes! We might not even follow the show notes this time! Because no one can make us.

In The Beginning...we all had to find our own way. So how do people become Modern Satanists, and what do we do next? To talk Satanic Genesis we're joined by Taylor, host of the YouTube channel Antibot.

Long-leggedy beasties AND things that go cump in the night--with Reno Satanic.

Every dog has his day, but Halloween night is all for cats.

Are you ready for Full Disclosure? We talk the most American of all anti-Satanist conspiracies with Brian from Chicago's own Illuminated Brew Works.

It's a real star-turn, as Unholy Rosaries joins us for our complete history of that most storied Satanic symbol, the pentagram.

It's a far-out game, AND the only Satanic Panic anti-D&D scare movie starring the East Bay's own Tom Hanks. I mean, it has to be, right?

Hone your horns and get ready to get fleeced, because we're talking scapegoating.

On this episode: Total destruction, from mountain to shore!

When it comes to lording over other Satanist writers, Byron has got the goods.

It's our 200th episode, and we're finally, completely giving the devil his due.

Time to fire up the coals for a modest proposal as we grill some historians about some of their most brazen claims.

We're getting our just desserts, but what exactly do Satanists have coming to us?

It's all about the haves, the have-nots, and the shouldn't-haves as we gaze longingly at this particularly pernicious sin.

Put on a pretty dress and come with us to the goat shed to enjoy the taste of butter, because we're living deliciously even if there's hell to pay.

Nobody ever makes sacrifices to Satan, so why the pop cultural obsession with this idea? We take a stab at it.

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Some people like to wine and dine their god, but for Modern Satanists that's a meal we're more likely to chew up and spit out.

Pure evil is all well and good, but what happens when fundamentalists take purity too far--and teenagers and women end up paying the price?

You've heard what we think of some of the most notorious tomes in Lucifer's Library, so now we're bringing you the insights and outrages of an unsuspecting public.

As we learned from the Life of Brian, we are all individuals--but what does that mean for our Satanic sensibilities?

We're returning to our Ritual Rolodex and giving Satan a bad name.

Happy new year! In honor of the auspicious Year of the Snake we're revisiting our favorite scriptural serpent with a Satanically subversive perspective on the fruits of Genesis.

The only thing that burns hotter than Hell is a question without an answer, so once again we're uploading the most loaded questions about Satanism from the unsuspecting public.

 The year is one! Or whatever number, we lost count. But no matter when it is, it's time to revisit this most enduring classic of Satanic Sinema and rewind the reels on "Rosemary's Baby."

  The year is almost One, and it's time to give the devil his due again.

Foiled again! Just in time for Hexmas, a histrionic history of curses, great and greater.

We're stuffing ourselves--with knowledge of course, as we dig into the Deadly Sin of Gluttony with Bonnie from Beelzebunz Bakery.

It's another day with you and me and Paradise.

We say "To Hell with this" and open some seasonal houses that should go off the market.

Our shocking Halloween season show disinters some Satanic perspectives on Mary Shelley's modern Mephistophelean marvel, "Frankenstein."

  We color our perspectives about Maggie Thrash's new book, a Satanic Panic parable for readers on every spectrum.

  It seems the third time is not the charm, as our fundy friends struggle with old Anton LaVey's infamous Satanic Bible, the most shocking exposition of heresy that most of them have never read.

Pour a nice, tall glass of Flavor Aid and get ready for some devilish deprogramming as we go in search for real, honest-to-badness Satanic cults.

It's all led up to this: We unveil our understanding of everyone's favorite sidepiece of Satanic statuary, the rock-hard foundation of our Modern Satanic perspective, the one, the only--Hot Satan.

We all want to save our skins, but what are we saving them for? We tell fundies "Hands off" as we embrace our rights over our own sinful selves.

We lean even leftier than usual as we chart a path from demon sex to "hidden masters" to this oft-referenced but little understood religious perspective.

We play bingo to beat the worst of 90s Satanic Panic copaganda.

It's definitely not safe to get back in the water.