Dear Ruth:

There are groups who do consecrate their music to Satan. This is largely found among Heavy Metal groups but can be with any style of music.

I might add, that the demonological effect of music goes far beyond rock music. The devil is adept at manipulating us through many kinds of music including New Age, Jazz, Blues, Hip Hop, Country, Pop, Folk, and even Classical.

Those groups that specifically consecrate their music to Satan, however, are mostly the Heavy Metal and Hard Rock types.

Jim Morrison of The Doors was deeply into Satanism. He died in 1971 at the age of 27. On the back cover of Morrison's biography, No One Here Gets Out Alive,  a eulogy describes him as the "obsessed disciple of darkness who rejected authority in any form, the explorer who probed 'the bounds of reality to see what would happen'. . . ."

Morrison called the spirits that possessed him "The Lords". He wrote a book of poetry about them.

Keith Richards of The Stones admitted to Rolling Stone magazine, that their "songs came spontaneously like an inspiration at a seance. The tunes arrived 'en masse' as if the Stones as songwriters were only a willing and open medium."

Mick Jaggar in an interview in a rock magazine talked about how he felt something was possessing him when he was on stage. He also mentioned that in certain songs (I don't remember which ones) he could feel the audience being possessed by a spirit.

Yoko Ono, wife of the late John Lennon, in a Playboy interview that "they were like mediums. They weren't conscious of all they were saying, but it was coming through them."

Jimmy Page from the Led Zeppelin is reported to have said:

A rock concert is really nothing else but a ritual. . . .At a Led Zeppelin concert the aim is to release energy for the performers and the audience. To achieve this you have to tap into the sources of magical power, however, dangerous that may be.

Marc Storace, with the heavy-metal band Krokus, told Circus magazine:

You can't describe it except to say it's like a mysterious energy that comes from the metaphysical plane and into my body. It's almost like being a medium. . . .

Little Richard also had similar experiences. Speaking of his source of inspiration he said, "I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness . . . that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan."

Joni Mitchell told Time magazine that her music came from her "spirit guide" named "Art." She said that nothing could keep her from "Art" whenever he called.

Jimi Hendrix believed he was possessed by a spirit. Hendrix's former girlfriend said in an interview on the Sound Track of the film Jimi Hendrix:

He used to always talk about some devil or something was in him, you know, and he didn't have any control over it, he didn't know what made him act the way he acted and what made him say the things he said, and songs . . . just came out of him.  . . .

He was so tormented and just torn apart . . . and I used to talk about my grandmother and all her weird stuff, you know, and he used to talk about us going down there and having some root lady or somebody see if she could drive this demon out of him.

This is only the beginning of what could be listed as the influences of the devil.

At the moment, I cannot remember which groups literally consecrate their music to Satan, but as the above examples show, it is not necessary to purposely consecrate one's music to Satan for that music to be from a demonic source.

While musicians like those above may have been involved in the occult or Satanism, or even directly influenced or even possessed, there are tons of music, such as Country, Jazz, Blues, Rap, etc. that serve a demonic agenda in promoting hatred, rebellion, adultery, murder, fornication, etc.

It is no wonder that music is such a powerful force for Satan. There are two reasons:

1) the first reason for the power of music for Satan is the same reason it is a power for grace and love and God -- music is the language of the soul. Thus music that is demonic or negatively oriented strikes at the very soul of a person and lowers it to its base instincts and spiritual bondage. Likewise, music that glorifies God raises the soul to God and brings freedom.

2) The Bible alludes that Satan, when he was Lucifer in Heaven was, in essence, the "choir director" of the angels in heaven. This would mean that Lucifer (Satan) has even more intimate knowledge of music and how to manipulate it than other angels. In any event music is a favorite of Satan to seduce us

Here is the passage in Ezekiel 28:11-18 from the 1899 Douay Rheims Bible with Heydock Commentary :

28:11. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre:

28:12. And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Thou wast the seal of resemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

(Heydock Commentary): Thou wast the seal of resemblance... The king of Tyre, by his dignity and his natural perfections, bore in himself a certain resemblance to God, by reason of which he might be called the seal of resemblance, etc. But what is here said to him is commonly understood of Lucifer, the king over all the children of pride.

28:13. Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.

(Heydock Commentary): "Pipes; music used at the coronation"

28:14. Thou a cherub stretched out, and protecting, and I set thee in the holy mountain of God, thou hast walked in the midst of the stones of fire.

(Heydock Commentary): A cherub stretched out... That is, thy wings extended. This alludes to the figure of the cherubims in the sanctuary, which with stretched out wings covered the ark.-Ibid. The stones of fire... That is, bright and precious stones which sparkle like fire.

28:15. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day of thy creation, until iniquity was found in thee.

28:16. By the multitude of thy merchandise, thy inner parts were filled with iniquity, and thou hast sinned: and I cast thee out from the mountain of God, and destroyed thee, O covering cherub, out of the midst of the stones of fire.

28:17. And thy heart was lifted up with thy beauty: thou hast lost thy wisdom in thy beauty, I have cast thee to the ground: I have set thee before the face of kings, that they might behold thee.

28:18. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thy iniquities, and by the iniquity of thy traffic: therefore I will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, to devour thee, and I will make thee as ashes upon the earth in the sight of all that see thee. 

 With Music and with all images, we need to guard our senses.

St. Peter of Alcantara in his book, "A Golden Treatise of Mental Prayer", said that we need to "Guard your senses, especially your eyes, ears and tongue."

St. Ignatius of Loyola in his Constitutions wisely teaches:

"All should take care to guard with great diligence the gates of their senses (especially the eyes, ears, and tongue) from all disorder, to preserve themselves in peace and true humility of their souls, and to give an indication of it by silence when it should be kept and, when they must speak, by the discretion and edification of their words, the modesty of their countenance, the maturity of their walk, and all their movements, without giving any sign of impatience or pride. In everything they should try and desire to give the advantage to the others, esteeming them all in their hearts as better than themselves [Phil 2:3] and showing exteriorly, in an unassuming and simple religious manner, the respect and reverence befitting each one’s state, in such a way that by observing one another they grow in devotion and praise God our Lord, whom each one should endeavor to recognize in his neighbor as in His image. . . . It will be very specially helpful to perform with all possible devotion the tasks in which humility and charity are practiced more; and, to speak in general, the more one binds himself to God our Lord and shows himself more generous toward his Divine Majesty, the more will he find God more generous toward himself and the more disposed will he be to receive graces and spiritual gifts which are greater each day".

We need to pay attention to the music we listen to and discern properly guarding our senses and thinking only on that which is pure (Phil 4:8).

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary