Various - Devil Rides In: Spellbinding Satanic Magick & The Rockult 1967-1974 (CD)

Sealed.

Three CD set exploring rock's dark underbelly and explorations in the occult, witchcraft, bad majick and satanism from 1966 onwards. As the Fab dream of the first half of the 1960s began to fade and the acid took it's unpredictable hold, spirituality in it's 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 it's many sisters drew it's 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 it's way into rock at that time. Sometimes overtly, sometimes veiled, but always with something to say.

Disc 1
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 Graham Bond - the Pentagram Ritual
13 Zior -Entrance of the Devil
14 Sam Gopal - the Dark Lord
15 The Open Mind Magic Potion
16 Elias Hulk - Nightmare

Disc 2
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  - 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 3
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