Tomorrow begins year LIV, Anno Satanas. As we’ve noted for several years, human society is in a raging turmoil of rabid tribalism, with barbarity on a perpetual rise. Individual liberty is threatened by many antagonists. We Satanists advocate for wider use of reason and forward thinking as tools to resist the trending rush towards authoritarianism, but that momentum is difficult to halt. Yet we fight our own battles in varied arenas to attain the goals our values have brought into focus. In time, society will move according to that will. Whether circumstances might curtail the ends we seek, every moment […]
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This week we hear works by Ludwig Senfl, Giovanni Picchi, Johann Christoph Pez, Pieter Hellendaal, Franciszek Lessel, Johannes Brahms, Ernest John Moeran, and George Tsontakis with performances by The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental and Vocal Ensembles, Rafael Puyana, Hildebrandische Hoboïsten Compagnie, Jaap ter Linden, Ageet Zweistra, Ton Koopman, Leonora Armellini, The Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paweł Przytocki, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, The BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury, Steven Copes, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Douglas Boyd. Stream Episode 421 Download Episode 421
This week we hear Anonymous and traditional works as well as works by Giovanni da Palestrina, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Johann Schelle, Johann Agricola, Jean Sibelius, Marcel Dupré, Jiří Ropek, John Rutter, Gary Fry, Vince Guaraldi, and Johann Sebastian Bach with performances by The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos, Pro Cantione Antiqua, The Medieval Wind Ensemble, Mark Brown, Chicago A Cappella, Jonathan Miller, Ensemble Plus Ultra, Michael Noone, Monika Mauch, Georg Poplutz, The Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens, Berit Solset, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthias Vieweg, Suvi Väyrynen, Jan Lehtola, Tong-Soon Kwak, The Prague Philharmonic Chorus and Chamber Orchestra, Jan […]
SUPERLATIVE SOLSTICE! The solstice is upon us and, as kin to the rest of Earth’s species, we feel at one with the cycling of the seasons on this beautiful planet that is our home. Some Satanists might feel alienated by parts of the holiday hubbub promoting Christianity, yet heathen trappings have long been the dominant décor. It is fact that the Christians lifted this holiday from the pagans, as Pope Julius I in the mid 300s inserted their pallid, mythical savior into prior earthy traditions which they failed to supplant. Jolly round and white-bearded Santa Claus, who has come to […]
Prometheus is pleased to announce this release of his unconventional little hip-chop/death rap project Der Torso. The brand-new track Stück-Werk is inspired by the dark myths surrounding Winter Solstice and the Krampus. In der Schwärze der Krampusnacht schlägt der Torso machtvoll zurück und verkündet seine dunkle und angseinflößende Interpretation der unter der Oberfläche schlummernden unheilvollen Legenden, die die Wintersonnenwende und die Figur des Krampus umranken. Stück-Werk steht stellvertretend für den vom Torso geprägten pechschwarzen Hip-Chop/Death Rap. Der Torso on cdbaby
This week we hear anonymous works and works by Cristóbal de Morales, Thomas Tallis, Heinrich Scheidemann, Johann Mattheson, Christian Friedrich Ruppe, Marcel Samuel-Rousseau, Howard Hanson, Maciej Małecki, and Harri Pentti Ahmas with performances by The Benedictine Monks of Norcia, The Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly, Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, Julia Brown, Nicki Kennedy, Anna Markland-Crookes, Ursula Eittinger, Andreas Post, Sven Hansen, Stephan MacLeod, The Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens, Francine van der Heyden, Karin van der Poel, Otto Bouwknegt, Mitchell Sandler, Ensemble Bouzignac Utrecht, Musica ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz, Erica Goodman, The Amadeus Ensemble, The Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz, The […]
This week we hear anonymous works and works by Leonel Power, Tielman Susato, Jean (Jehan) Titelouze, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Michel Corrette, Igor Stravinsky, Olivier Messiaen, Wojciech Kilar, and Sir John Tavener with performances by Capella Gregoriana, The Early Music New York Ensemble, Frederick Renz, Robert Bates, Constanze Backes, Ellen Pieterse, Roelien van Wageningen, Wilfred Reneman, Han Warmelink, Jeroen Helder, Joost van Tongeren, Capella Frisiae, Accademia Amsterdam, Ludger Rémy, Olivier Vernet, Mary Ann Hart, Thomas Bogdan, Fred Sherry, Stephen Taylor, Melanie Field, Michael Parloff, Bart Feller, The Gregg Smith Singers, Robert Craft, Martin Baker, Hasmik Papian, The Kraków Philharmonic Chorus, The […]
We’ve noted that some secularists in Nebraska have decided to combat their local Adams County Board of Supervisors’ decision to post a sign with the vapid slogan “In God We Trust” in the county courthouse by offering an alternative sign which would list our founder Anton LaVey’s text for “The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth.” Now, that initial slogan was pasted on to U.S. paper currency in 1957 and was intended as a rebuttal to what was perceived as the threat of “godless communism.” As Satanists who understand that all deities are myths, to us it is an empty […]
This week we hear anonymous works and works by John Dunstable, Jacobus Clemens non Papa, Johann Rudolph Ahle, Arcangelo Corelli, Giovanni Ristori, Feliks Nowowiejski, Gerald Finzi, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Sir James Loy MacMillan, and Jaakko Mäntyjärvi with performances by The Gregorian Choir of Paris, The Hilliard Ensemble, The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips, Heddy Graf, Dorothea Brinkmann, Klaus Schmidt, Wilhelm Pommerien, The Freiburger Kantorei, Klaus Knall, Alexander Eadon, Christine Wolff, Britta Schwarz, The Körnerscher Sing-Verein Dresden, The Dresdner Instrumental-Concert, Peter Kopp, Wacław Golonka, Rebecca Evans, The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley, Kari Jussila, Leif Segerstam, Polyphony, The Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Layton, and […]