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From Satan To Sabbath: The METAL Interviews
Author and veteran drummer Joel Gausten (Pigface / The Undead / Electric Frankenstein) has released his latest book, “From Satan to Sabbath: The METAL Interviews 2000-2009,” which collects 16 conversations from the world of Hard Rock and Metal.
The 192-page “From Sabbath to Sabbath” includes the complete text of Joel Gausten’s out-of-print book “The SABBATH Interviews,” selections from Gausten’s books “Prong: The Early Years” and “Pandemonium: Inside Killing Joke,” cover art by Shannon Gardner-Gausten and previously unpublished, full-length interviews with past/present members of Aerosmith, Plasmatics, Celtic Frost, Opeth, Thin Lizzy, Bolt Thrower, Benediction, Hades, Watchtower and Napalm Death.
From exploring Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward’s former life on the streets to revealing the real story behind guitarist Rick Dufay’s notorious stint in Aerosmith, “From Satan to Sabbath” cuts through the P.R. fluff and media propaganda and gets right to the flesh, blood and soul of the real world of Metal – straight from the mouths of those who live it.
Joel Gausten is an award-winning journalist and the author of six books, including “Tales Of Horror: The History of The Misfits & The Undead” and “Words From The Third Side: Essays on Sex, Satan & Success.” A drummer for nearly 25 years, he has worked with a vast array of artists including Pigface, Electric Frankenstein, The Undead and Effectionhate. He got his start in the music business as a promoter for The Misfits.
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UA Variety Hour: Episode 1
From my good pal, Kevin Slaughter…
John Derbyshire, author of the new book We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, sat down for a discussion of atheism and conservatism, math cranks and more in our first proper episode. Your host Kevin I. Slaughter discusses the post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy and touches on the myth of the noble savage by way of a quote from an author stolen from an interview on the Skepticality Podcast and by lifting a passage from Pinker’s The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. We also hear an archival recording of HL Mencken discussing his philosophy of drinking, and a plug for the new UA release Laffs & Juggs.
John Derbyshire has previously released the novels Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream: A Novel (1997), a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year,” Fire From the Sun (2000) a storyline written in an astounding 76 chapters in 3 volumes. His non-fiction books Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (2003), Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra (2006) and now We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (2009).
In addition to the books, he has over three and a half decades of journalism and reportage under his proverbial belt. A selection of the magazines and newspapers he’s written for: Nat. Review, NYT, Boston Globe, Weekly Standard, Mathematics Magazine, Wall Street Journal and many others. He’s contributed to National Review Online, V-Dare.com and the New English Review websites.
The Underworld Amusements Variety Hour is a podcast covering an eclectic mix of subjects, guided by the interests of its host. This is the first episode proper, but so far there have already been multiple special episodes, short format extras and pdf files of free materials. Underworld Amusements is a small media company focusing on publishing books of forgotten and marginalized works, our podcast and other products and even events.
Check out UA-related excerpts of interviews on YouTube under a dedicated account in 720p high definition… of course, they’re audio interviews with still images, so it’s easy to get that High Def quality.
Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes. As always, our full episodes and specials are also available at Radio Free Satan. Or just find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page.
1 commentPlease note: When Slaughter said that Derbyshire believes “Christianity is slightly crazier than Islam”, that should really be “slightly less crazy than Islam.” A small, but important difference.
Quotes from the Book of Satanic Quotations
“But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first free-thinker and emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.”
- Mikhail Bakunin
“The bizarre world of cards… a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately. A deck of cards was built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it a lackey to those above it.”
- Ely Culbertson
“What I am about to say does not concern the ordinary man of our day. On the contrary, I have in mind the man who finds himself involved in today’s world, even at its most problematic and paroxysmal points; yet he does not belong inwardly to such a world, nor will he give in to it. He feels himself, in essence, as belonging to a different race from that of the overwhelming majority of his contemporaries.”
- Julius Evola
“You can die from someone else’s misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are only precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you.”
- Robert Greene
Want more quotes? Pick up a copy of The Book of Satanic Quotations today!
1 commentKevin Slaughter Speaks At Ingersoll Oratory
From Mr. Slaughter’s blog post on speaking at the Robert G. Ingersoll Oratory Contest, Washington, D.C. on the 4th of October 2009:
I’m nervous… in a few hours I’ll be in our nation’s capitol reading a lecture by the great American orator Robert G. Ingersoll… No matter what mundane or crazy shit I’ve done in front of an audience, I’ve always been plagued with nervousness before beginning. From making an announcement in a room or doing an interview over the phone, to being cut open in a blood ritual performance or crawling across a ceiling half-naked covered in silver paint – I’m a bit of a wreck until I start doing whatever it is I need to be doing. I’m not an extrovert by nature, but I’ve been performing in front of audiences since I was in Elementary School. I think I took this chance to help subdue that fear response a bit, but then here I am waking up at 6:30 am when my alarm is set for 8…
Listen to the full audio presentation of Slaughter’s reiteration of Ingersoll’s important words on the subject of “blasphemy” at the blog post linked above.
No comments“In a world of superstition, reason is blasphemy.
In a world of ignorance, facts are blasphemy.
In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime,
and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.”-Robert G. Ingersoll
Blood-Brotherhood Reading (Part 2)
Part II of the 1 October 2009 reading of Blood-Brotherhood and Other Rites of Male Alliance at CounterMedia in Portland, Oregon. Jack Donovan, author of Androphilia and co-author of Blood-Brotherhood presents some basic information about the idea of blood-brotherhood from the opening chapter of the book. (If the posted video breaks, direct link is here.)
Blood-Brotherhood Reading (Part 1)
Part I of the 1 October 2009 reading of Blood-Brotherhood and Other Rites of Male Alliance at CounterMedia in Portland, Oregon. Jack Donovan, author of Androphilia and co-author of Blood-Brotherhood presents some basic information about the idea of blood-brotherhood from the opening chapter of the book. (If the posted video breaks, direct link is here.)
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