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Painted Black: From Drug Killings to Heavy Metal : The Alarming True Story of How Satanism Is Terrorizing Our Communities Hardcover – October 1, 1990

by Carl A. Raschke (Author)

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A popular account subtitled From drug killings to heavy metal the alarming true story of how Satanism is terrorizing our communities . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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October 1, 1990
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0062507044
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978-0062507044
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Two recent criminal cases--the 15 bodies found near Matamoros in Mexico in 1989 and the bludgeoning to death of a teenager in Joplin, Mo., in 1987--are merely the tip of a harrowing phenomenon, claims Raschke, director of the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Denver. The crimes represent clear instances of murder by satanic cults, which the author believes to be on the rise in the U.S., fed by the proliferating drug culture. Satanism, he argues, far from being a religion entitled to First Amendment protection, is "a motivational system for the spread of violence and cultural terrorism," often involving the torture and killing of animals and the sexual abuse of children. While Raschke's style is ponderous, the impact of his message is shocking. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Publisher : Harpercollins; 1st edition (October 1, 1990)
Language : English
Hardcover : 276 pages
ISBN-10 : 0062507044
ISBN-13 : 978-0062507044
Dimensions : 1.1 x 6.4 x 9.4 inches

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Everyday Reader

Compelling, when he stuck to the facts.

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2021

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The parts of the book that read like straight reporting were great. Unsettling, but highly informative. That's mostly the beginning of the book, with his exploration of the crossover between the drug trade and the occult.

Where he lost me is when he delved into the pop culture aspect of it. To be sure, there's a lot that could be said on that front, but someone like Jasun Horsley does a better, more thoughtful analysis in his writing. Raschke tended to ape PRMC talking points when it came to heavy metal.

Overall, though, worth the read.

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Heath

Making clear a murky subject

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2017

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Hard to fathom it happening, but this is clear, investigative writing. He stats out of religious clichés and makes a hard subject easy to understand.

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D. L. Norwood

Painted Black Black From Drug Killings to Heavy Metal: The Alarming True story of How Satanism Is Terrorizing Our Communities

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This book is about mind control & should be disturbing to the reader.
The author did mention something that was eye opening in that during the 60's that occultists tried to overturn religious & political beliefs through drugs, art, books, music, movies, & the news media. It was a time of rebelliousness against the system. America's youth were being manipulated by drugs, music, & free love. Satanists were putting their message out through drugs & subliminal messages through heavy metal music which was going global. The kids had a vacum to be filled, an emptiness that needed to be filled if not with God then Satanism. If parents were not teaching values & social norms, then they were getting them from TV. Children who had been abused, rejected by parents, & taught no moral values,who were on the fringe of society, who were angry & needed an outlet for violence turned to Satanism on their own or were enticed through drugs, alcohol, & sex. Once they got addicted to these vices & they became readily available, the kids did not get out of Satanism. The author pointed out that there was no dabbling in the occult as bondage quickly developed. The kids thought that Satanism was going to lead to power, wealth, fame, popularity, & anything else that their little hearts desired. Soon they find that they have been completely fooled. Satan promises much & never ever delivers. Instead of finding freedom. the kids are bonded by rituals & filled with threats leading to fear & loyalty. There is psychic war among believers. The cult members are forced to do things that they do not want to do for fear of hexes or curses resulting in death. Some cult members commit heinous crimes & then commit suicide or find themselves rotting in jail because of their loyalty to the dark lord.
The author does point out that there is a connection between Satanism & organized crime such as drug dealing, prostitution, sex trafficking, & pornography. Again, the children are made to suffer. Runnaways, prostitutes, & kidnap victims are finding themselves in the sex trade enduring unimaginable atrocities, emotional damage, & possible death-all because of supply & demand. Sadly, many of these crimes go unpunished because of government officials who have a finger in the pie, unscrupulous investigators providing tips to persons of interest so evidence disappears, prosecutors & judges who are up to their eyeballs in the crimes that they are prosecuting. Even the media are guilty as well when it purposely starts rumors to start a panic just to sell newspapers & magazines.
Today Satanism is recognized as a religion & is protected by the 1st amendment. With this in mind, investigators are careful to prosecute the crime rather than the religion. Investigators try to separate Satanism from the crime in order to be able to prosecute & convict a crime. The threat of diminished capacity would hamper prosecution, conviction, & sentencing.
I gave this book a rating of a 3 because the book was not an easy read & I found it very difficult to understand & absorb some of the information. Some of the book was just boring & tedious reading. The most moving chapters were on heavy metal & D&D. Heavy metal music got it origins in London & the lyrics came from a psycho ward. Heavy metal has been defined as audio porn. Kids listen an average of 5 hours a day to lyrics of an album over & over. Music has a powerful influence over youth. Here is a quote by the late Jemi Hendrix, "You can hypnitize people with music & when they get to their weakest point, you can preach into their subconscious minds what you want to say." Here is a quote from the author, "Drugs not only intensify perceptions & incoming messages to the brain, they create a general receptivity for new messages. They break down old habits of feeling & responding.... Cruel & unusual violence-the stuff that is wound into the very tapestry of heavy metal 'art'-cannot occur unless the imagination is stimulated & trained not only to perform it, but to enjoy it." The author feels that D&D leads children itno the occult/Satanism & into despair & suicide.
The kids get so addicted to D&D that they Identify with their characters & cannot separate fantasy from reality. The kids find themselves increasingly isolated with no way out other than suicide.

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Gary Wayne Cunningham

satanic panic book

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I'm really fascinated with the satanic panic era of mid 80's early 90's. Ridiculous stuff. Scary time if you were different. But the book is like 3 dollars. It's worth checking out for the comedy of it.

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Erik Rodenborg

An important work on satanism

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2004

Everyone has prejudices. For my part, I have never thought it possible that a person whose political and philosophical views are quite opposite to mine could write what I consider as a good and interesting book about a major social issue... When I read Carl Raschkes Painted Black I was forced to admit that this was, indeed, possible. Raschke seems to have a kind of political worldview which I certainly not share, but he has written one of the most interesting works about satanism ever written.
Painted Black is an extraordinary work. It starts not with descriptions of the muddled "ideology" of tiny groups but about what happens in the material world - the existence of satanist-related criminality. In three convincing chapters, Raschke shows that it not only exists, but that it indeed is dangerous and important.
In the rest of the book Raschke analyses the ideological background to these types of crimes - the occult/satanic subcultures that has been an undercurrent in the western world for hundreds of years. Although some of the chapters are somewhat coloured by Raschkes political views (especially chapter four) they say something very essential about the elitist, destructive and utterly reactionary (the last is mine expression, certainly not Raschkes!) character of these occult subcultures. Raschke shows that these ideologies are more than delirious products of tiny sects and cults - they represent an influential undercurrent in our society.
Raschke had done an important work in Painted Black. The book should, like all books, of course be read critically, but it would be sad if any reader reacted to some of the implicit, and not always politically correct, views in the book by altogether rejecting the facts and the analyses in it. For my part I see the growth of satanism partially as an expression of a decaying capitalist system - a view Raschke certainly would not share! But in spite of this major difference I had with the author, his book has certainly helped me very much to understand the satanist subculture.
Swedish feminist author Eva Lundgren once wrote that ritual abuse in a way expressed something she called "the secret heart of our culture". This can be said about satanism as well. The elitist anti-moralism in the satanist subculture says something essential about the society we live in. Raschke is one of the few who have dared to analyse it, what it really is about. I must say that I am very much impressed.

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J. Devlin

History or Hysteria?

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2001

I found much of this book fascinating, until the author got to the sections on D&D and Heavy Metal. At that point it became obvious to me that this was just hysteria masquerading as historical research. J. Giles and Rush are not heavy metal bands...nor are they satanic, and much of the mythology connected w/D&D has long since been debunked (though to be fair much of the debunking happened after the book was written 11 years ago). I also got tired of the only sources cited for some of this (mis)information being groups w/obvious ties to the right wing religious establishment. Overall though, not a bad way to while away a dull afternoon.

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