This article elaborates on Urban’s tantalising classification of Discordian magic.

Yet ritual practice within Discordianism remains largely unexamined Hugh Urban’s brief discussion of Discordian magical workings as a sub-category of Chaos Magic is the extent of academic discussion of the subject to date (Urban 2006). The esoteric visual and lyrical expressions will be analysed using Jacques Attali’s Bataillean approach to the political economy of music.ĭiscordianism, founded in 1957 and generally regarded as a “parody religion,” has only recently received scholarly consideration as a valid religious expression within modern Paganism (Cusack 2010). To achieve this aim, this chapter will use Christopher Partridge’s notions of occulture, esoterrorism and industrial Paganism developed from the perspective of Religious Studies. This chapter will explore the esoteric concepts behind different projects, probe the interrelated networks of initial industrial esoteric associations in earlier projects and bands and their influence in the evolution of the later bands.

Industrial black metal, a subgenre derived from the infamously anti-religious and Satanic black metal, continues the occult tendency of both industrial and black metal by adopting a more esoteric type of Satanism. Multitudes of references to different strains of esotericism ritualised industrial, like Skinny Puppy and its association to The Process Church, Current 93 and Coil with their Crowleyan and Thelemic themes and Zero Kama and the Left-Hand Path. In turn, industrial has acted as a vehicle to express and spread these notions by integrating them into artistic techniques and aesthetic concepts. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, industrial music has been inspired by transgressive and unorthodox spiritual beliefs and practices. From Genesis P-Orridge, COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle, influenced by artistic and esoteric ideas from William S. Industrial subculture was associated from its very beginning with counterculture, alternative spirituality and the occult.

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