I’ve spoken before about my transition from being a Buddhist to being a Satanist. In brief, after a pilgrimage to the city of Kathmandu in Nepal, I became disillusioned with the Buddhism, but that’s really only half the story, the story of motion away from one religion. The other half, my coming to Satanism, resulted from the confluence of three things: the Bible, the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the music of the French black metal band Deathspell Omega. I’ve covered the Bible extensively, in general and in terms of its relationship to my theology of Satan the Accuser, and I’ve also covered the relevant Hegelian philosophy in several essays, as well as the Nietzschean philosophy that also came to significantly characterize my Satanism. This essay, and likely others in the future, will focus on… the music of Deathspell Omega and its relationship to my religious Satanism.