Yellowbeard (1983) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAho0nUZWr4

Another wee ditty from Bill. Excerpts taken from Coopers; 'Religion Of The Heavens' broadcast. Please visit my website @ https://www.vinnysblogbookcom.com. 'The religious impulse in early Heavy Metal music is fundamentally Gnostic. An ancient religious tradition emphasising the rule of evil & the remoteness of salvation, Gnosticism was integrated into hard rock music in the late 1960s. Early Heavy Metal musicians encountered Gnosticism as it had been absorbed into popular fiction & film, including especially the works of Dennis Wheatley & J.R.R. Tolkien. Prominent in giving Gnosticism musical form was the band Black Sabbath, whose first three albums in 1970 & 1971 pioneered the patterns of musical practice that would become the conventions of the genre.' - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14755610.2016.1216457?journalCode=rcar20 'The Pale Horse is a Dennis Wheatley-inflected offering from 1961.' - https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/09/the-pale-horse-review-dread-so-thick-youll-need-a-scrub-down '....he supervised a series of 45 paperback reprints for the British publisher Sphere with the heading "The Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult", selecting the titles and writing short introductions for each book. These included both occult-themed novels by the likes of Bram Stoker and Aleister Crowley (with whom he once shared a lunch)...' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Wheatley It always strikes me as curious that Bill Cooper was potentially murdered under orders from Aleister Crowleys grandson, George W. Bush. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZBUCc6hhA0