Occult rock refers to 1970s psychedelic / proto-doom metal bands like Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Coven and Black Widow, and nowadays artists inspired by such bands. Occult rock bands have heavy emphasis on occult subject matter and imagery, such as gnosticism, hermeticism, Satanism, neopaganism and Lovecraftian horror.
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