Music Cults

[martin]

Related thread from a few years back

CULT MUSIC

By which I mean the music of actual cults. Like this album by Travolta & Frank Stallone - with a vocal performance by Hubbard himself: Also with the apollo stars featuring Chick Corea and a fairlight. Hubbard would apparently fine them for every wrong note they played. David Koresh's...

www.dissensus.com

 

[william_kent]

it's weird but there's just a certain type of person who for whatever reason has the psychology that leads them to set up as a charismatic leader and then there is the type of person who is vulnerable (or gullible) enough to follow those leaders and that's just what they do. it's similar to conmen who run pyramid schemes and so on - literally the day they are released from prison for running a scam they start running the next scam and were probably running one inside prison as well. it's just what they do and there's not a shortage of people willing to play along with the con either.

i mean if you're willing to believe that x person is the mouthpiece of the universal force of life then you're that much more willing to believe them when they say they've calculated wrong, or that the archangel raphael has transmitted a new date for the ascension, or whatever. sad but true.

NXIVM was a "multi-level marketing" scheme and a cult - it's possible to combine the two.. and Raniere is still running his cult from jail...

 

[woops]

Related thread from a few years back

CULT MUSIC

By which I mean the music of actual cults. Like this album by Travolta & Frank Stallone - with a vocal performance by Hubbard himself: Also with the apollo stars featuring Chick Corea and a fairlight. Hubbard would apparently fine them for every wrong note they played. David Koresh's...

www.dissensus.com

as mentioned in the thread beck was raised as a scientologist and i think george clinton is also one.

 

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[william_kent]

Chakra - Scarlet Woman

featuring Kenneth Grant and the priestesses of the Typhonian Order of the OTO ( well, that's what they were when this was recorded, had to rebrand as The Typhonian Order after legal action from the Caliphate OTO )

7" single which featured Crowley on the b side

 

[version]

The Polyphonic Spree have always seemed a bit like a cult.

 

[linebaugh]

Surprised theres no mention of dead heads or phish fans yet.

Semi related is the pshycadelic trance/electronic music festival circuit here in America, which feels vaguely cultish in that its seemingly huge with die hard fans who plan their years around it yet has next to no impact outside its own insular culture

 

[linebaugh]

whatever @WashYourHands is into as well

 

[version]

Blueface Responds To Blue Girls Club 'Cult' Allegations

Rapper Blueface responds to allegations his Blue Girls Club is actually a cult.

hiphopdx.com

 

[john eden]

Zendik Farm was a cult that did music. One of the many things Gen flirted with briefly in the 90s. There are some survivor accounts out there.

 

[linebaugh]

for those that havent looked into the BUUM thread @other_life was nearly recruited into a digital music cult

 

[john eden]

Industrial d-listers tried their own cults which I assume were just on paper

Into A Circle (The Game)
A;Grumh (The T Circle)

 

[john eden]

Goth rockers Christian Death attempted to set up a uniformed paramilitary org too. I had the flyers.

 

[linebaugh]

Very funny and horrid moment in highschool when my buddy found out that the lead singer of this awful band he liked was running a baby raping sex cult

Everything we know about convicted Lostprophets paedophile Ian Watkins

FORMER Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins is currently behind bars for a string of sickening child sex offences. In August 2023, while serving his sentence, the paedophile rocker was taken to hospit…

www.thesun.co.uk

Lostprophets singer ‘plotted to rape underage girl’

Lostprophets singer ‘plotted to rape underage girl’

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[john eden]

TOPY got much more interesting when people became less interested in PTV. Of course there was one person who was involved that didn’t like this very much…

Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia were a great TOPY related group.

 

[william_kent]

I forgot to mention Darby Crash & The Germs - there was a bit of a cult thing going on there, "The Circle", that the book "Lexicon Devil" touches on

 

[william_kent]

oh, and the Norwegian "true black metal" scene had it's own "inner circle" - that didn't work out too well

 

[version]

There are groups that seem cult-like, but something stops them from going all the way. I'm thinking of people like The Fall, Wu-Tang and certain periods of The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

 

[john eden]

Of related interest: The Nine O Clock Service.

A Church of England rave cult.

 

[william_kent]

The Synanon Choir - Quiet Sky

A cult which disguised itself as a drug rehab centre in the late 60s / early 70s - Philip K. Dick blames them for a death of one his friends in Valis - I always thought that the drug rehab centre in A Scanner Darkly was based on them but apparently it was another one - there was a lot of it about back then

fighting talk from their leader

“We’re not going to mess with the old-time, turn-the-other-cheek religious postures…our religious posture is: Don’t mess with us. You can get killed dead, literally dead…these are real threats.”

“They are draining life’s blood from us, and expecting us to play by their silly rules. We will make the rules. I see nothing frightening about it… I am quite willing to break some lawyer’s legs, and next break his wife’s legs, and threaten to cut their child’s arm off. That is the end of that lawyer. That is a very satisfactory, humane way of transmitting information. I really do want an ear in a glass of alcohol on my desk.”