Songs By Cults and Cult Leaders

music from inside cults: songs from inside death cults, sex cults, cults of personality, yoga cults, unhinged religious sects and the only running fully isolated stalinist regime.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Peeking_Through_The_Wool/music-from-inside-cults/

Niiiice

  On 5/22/2018 at 10:39 PM, Cryptowen said:

sometimes i get the sense that most successful bands & musicians could have been cult leaders if they had really got their shit together at just the right moment in their career trajectory

 

don't you want devoted followers watmm

hence the term "cult following"

- rabid, close-knit fanbases with shared ethos, rituals, symbolism, etc but without the nefarious elements or authoritarian power structures

not sure if this counts, it's basically christian insanity taken to the extreme done my yours truly. free for all- just remember, you're probably going to hell

not sure why i never posted this here before. or did i? 

https://socksoff.bandcamp.com/album/i-dream-of-god

https://www.discogs.com/artist/414001-Thee-Temple-Ov-Psychick-Youth

https://www.discogs.com/label/109253-Thee-Temple-Ov-Psychick-Youth

Great thread.

Not quite cult music, but this is a banger and I think it fits in here:
 

There's a great story behind this record as well.  https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/donal-dineen-s-sunken-treasure-sister-irene-o-connor-fire-of-god-s-love-1.3050696 

I just discovered this album, it's only from 2018 but already going for crazy money online and impossible to find:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Cult-Sounds/release/12234586

The Riot Fest Guide to Joining a Space Cult:

https://riotfest.org/2018/01/space-cult/

  On 2/22/2020 at 9:40 PM, Rubin Farr said:

I just discovered this album, it's only from 2018 but already going for crazy money online and impossible to find:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Cult-Sounds/release/12234586

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i actually got this on a whim about a year or two ago. it's not that great save for the chris korda song which is genuinely pretty good and the bobby beausoleil track- but exactly how long was that guy with the family before getting busted and composing that song in prison?

Yeah listened to the playlist, more of a value as a novelty and investment rather than actual good music, lol

Modern amalgamations of esoteric gnosticism took a weird foothold in South America, much thanks to figureheads like Samael who synthesized an intricate sex cult in the 70's and wrote lots of crazy books. His works influenced English based movements and if you were interested in lucid dreaming or astral projection in the 2000s you may have run into websites like Mysticweb, led by an aspiring English cult leader named Mark Pritchard (not the Global Communication member!), or Gnosis USA which maintained the original doctrine of Samael (and claimed Mark was a demon). The trick was to introduce you to a weekly spiritual course that gradually drew you into an exclusive and oppressive hierarchy. Any sensible person would see the warning signs but the doctrine of ego disassimilation encouraged you not to question anything and a lot of people were hooked. The nature of the cult led former members to speak out, the English gnostic movement disbanded in its cradle and most affiliated sites are dead now. Mark tried again a few times as his cult made him a lot of money, including a sun worshipping movement, but had aggravated so many people that he's now gone into hiding offline from all the threats. But the original south American movement seems to be alive here and there. 

I also found this wonderfully kitsch intro to a Mexican show featuring Samael:

The lunatic Jim Jones, and his victims

L Ron produced a lot of music. Apparently this track became a bit of an anthem for old school climate activists

The Gnostics mentioned above advocated monogamy, so the “sex cult” label isn’t warranted or accurate. They did have a tantric practice, based on principles common to Eastern traditions like Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism, but it was clearly explained as something only for couples in their private lives. On the English form of Gnosticism, almost all the 90,000+ people who attended the free courses had a positive or neutral experience and left amicably, and neither Mark nor anyone else made any money from it as it was a registered religious charity. Most people never took on positions in the organisation, they just attended the free courses and left. The few who supposedly “spoke out” had actually been asked to leave the organization for misconduct, and only started making baseless accusations when their attempts to come back were denied. They were joined by a few other people with their own agendas, like certain religious people and others who just hated people with different beliefs. Their false claims were all addressed and refuted with evidence years ago. It was actually some of them that went into hiding to avoid accountability when they were followed-up by governmental anti-discrimination commissions.

  On 5/22/2018 at 10:39 PM, Cryptowen said:

sometimes i get the sense that most successful bands & musicians could have been cult leaders if they had really got their shit together at just the right moment in their career trajectory

 

don't you want devoted followers watmm

hence the term "cult following"

Some people are starting to say that’s what’s happening to Jared Leto

There are a bunch of videos and merch from 30 seconds to mars that say “yes, this is a cult”, and their fans call themselves “the echelon” and family.

I thought maybe they're just making fun of the idea but now I'm not sure

Saw this recently as well. Topanga is where all the manson family stuff happened.



There's some weird occult ritual stuff in music videos sometimes...

  On 2/28/2017 at 10:47 PM, Nebraska said:

Cult: Doomsday music from the fringes of religion

 

 

This is a mix made up of tracks and testimonies from religious groups that have been described as being cults. Some of the voices you'll hear have fallen victim to their leader's wishes, while others are testimonies, or music from the leaders themselves.

 

https://www.mixcloud.com/mofgimmers/cult-doomsday-music-from-the-fringes-of-religion/

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The piece that plays 7 minutes into this is freaking stellar.  Anyone know who composed/recorded/was involved and which cult it's associated with? (that's the one I'll be joining, I guess)

found it on youtube:

Synanon Choir, formed by Jazz musician Joe Pass, from Sounds of Synanon album.

They apparently went bankrupt and dissolved in 1991

another track by Genesis P Orridge who founded Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth: