Top 5 Iconic Musicians Who Are (and Were) Into the Occult

For a long time, rock and metal music have had lots of attachment with different types of occultism. This is and has been the case even though there are and were musicians who stuck to a specific belief, philosophy, and practice. Here are the 5 famous iconic musicians who are/were into occult.

Gerard Way

Certainly, Gerard Way appears in the list of the most recognized people for co-founding and being in the frontline of My Chemical Romance, nevertheless, in recent times, he has as well become a proficient comic book writer after authoring various famous comic book series, comprising of “The Umbrella Academy”. It is worth noting that this got Netflix recognition.

Even without considering how creative energies move, Gerard Way’s output is usually initiated by his occult world prospects. Gerard Way has announced that he entered into the mystic arts through the works of another comic book writer called Grant Morrison who was a very prominent personality in modern chaos magick.

Dave Mustaine

Dave Mustaine was known for being Megadeth’s frontman. He was pretty committed concerning “black magic” while he was at his youthful age. Instead of just welcoming it, he went ahead to even practice it. Evidently, regardless of the sinister character of his work, Mustaine’s involvement led to some kind of self-improvement, as he later thought that many bad things that befell him were as a result of his projection of malicious intentions on others. Besides, he quit playing “The Conjuring” for quite a more prolonged period of time, as the song was composed with the aim of casting an occult.

David Bowie

Considering how David Bowie was a great combination of everything mysterious and amazing to be obtained in humankind, his focus on something past the normal life appears only logical. In her biography, Bowie’s wife Angie recorded how Bowie desired to be well-prepared to counter possible psychic aggression and black magic being hurled on him, and that he was taking steps so that no wickedness would befall to him in that approach. Still, there are no hints of any distinct occult persuasion or habit in his professional practice, notwithstanding what some tinfoil-hat intrigue philosophers tend to observe in Bowie’s work.

Elvis Presley

 

The general image of Elvis Presley somehow contradicts his passion in the occult but probably, many people won’t be surprised by his Occult practices owing to his several mistaken theories out there concerning every feature of his life. Nevertheless, Elvis Presley, who is regarded as The King of Rock’n’Roll foud himself into some (unclear) occult writing as a method of attaining spiritual stability and progress at a time when his deals were failing and his own fights became overbearing. Yet, his wife Priscilla later stated that the concern was temporary and that she disposed of the books after his demise.

Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page is a known enthusiastic admirer of Aleister Crowley, the Tarot as well as Austin Osman Spare- the British artist and founder of sigil magic. Jimmy Page had ingenious approaches to creating smart messages originating from these forces into almost every regard of Led Zeppelin, and “IV”, the band’s great album particularly is a wealth trove of secret symbolism.

The first four group members’ symbols originally appeared on “IV”. Jimmy Page had every member draft a peculiar symbol made up of components significant to them that would describe each band member on the album’s case, just like the manner in which Spare’s sigil magic operates. Again, the album consists of two recommendations- the legendary Hermit on the interior (supposedly describing how Jimmy Page himself was feeling at the moment), and the record case has a remarkable similarity to Ten of Wands – which describes bearing the weight of accomplishment in a rational approach.

In addition to these, there are other things that are significant in the album. For instance, even the recognizable  “Stairway to Heaven” that can as well be observed on the album is a much manifest allegorical story of a character fixated on the material craving to use an alternative and “buy” their access to spiritual knowledge.

With these examples of Artists, it is apparent that the occult has reshaped on various features of life including but not confined to music. Without going into particulars on the substantive impacts (whether positive or negative), it is just a fact that occult is something you can’t overlook.