Black Mass Appeal: Modern Satanism for the Masses
Black Mass Appeal is a podcast about modern Satanism, exploring its history and the ways it intersects with left-leaning political activism. The hosts discuss current events, pop culture, and the ongoing relevance of Satanic thought to contemporary life. It is aimed at both the Satan-curious and those already involved in Satanic groups. Episodes blend commentary, education, and community-focused conversation.
Episodes
Episode 232 - The King In Yellow Is Much Weirder Than Satanism
The king is dead, long live…an incomplete understanding of who the king even was? At the end of the 19th century, an unlikely writer penned a horror classic that still haunts readers with a zeitgeist of fear, decadence, and the collapse of religious faith.
Episode 231 - Satanic Vampires (w/Atun-Shei Films)
Vampires suck. But people love them anyway. For hundreds of years, mortals have credited tehse undead ingenues with a downright devilish disposition, so to help us dig up facts about blasphemous bloodsuckers we're joined by Andrew, director of the new movie The Vampires of New Orleans.
Episode 230 - Malleus Maleficarum, the Witch Hunting Manual About Stolen Dicks
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a...witch?
Episode 229 - Satanic Nude Altars: Why Is This a Thing?
We're turning a naked eye to a revealing Satanic practice and baring all on its origins.
Episode 228 - The Devilish History of Tarot Cards
It's time to cut the cards AND cut to the chase as we give tarot cards a straight deal with the devilish history of everyone's favorite spooky deck.
Episode 227 - Satanic Panic Library Unleashes Pure Chaos
We fall headfirst down a waterslide of evangelical madness with the most baffling and bizarre takes from our private Satanic Panic literary stash.
Episode 226 - The History of Lucifer
Lucifer's the light of the world, but not everyone is so enlightened about the significance of that name. Here to help light up our lives, we're joined by the Presbytera of the Church of Lucifer.
Episode 225 - America's Favorite Queer Teenage Satanist Influencer, Mary MacLane
I find myself a genius, a thief, a liar, a general moral vagabond, a fool more or less, and a philosopher. It serves to keep me wondering what the devil has in store for me.
Episode 224 - Limping Devils, Satanic Bodies, & Disability
Epsiode 223 - The "Ex-Satanist" Who Fooled America's Dumbest People ("The Satan Seller")
Apparently some people really will buy anything, even the insultingly credulous sales pitch of a former "Satanist High Priest" turned comedian for Christ.
Episode 222 - Satanic Comedy
Don't worry, jokes about religion always land great, there's no way this can possibly go awry.
Episode 221 - Satan's Weird Art History Is Racist As Hell
We curate the whitewashed history of dark arts.
Episode 220 - Satanists Expose Bohemian Grove
All the devilish secrets of SF's most secretive society are exposed--including the ones where Bohemian Grove members just expose themselves.
Episode 219 - Why the Hell Do People Believe In Hell?
We're back on the road to Perdition with Taylor from Antibot and Drew from Genetically Modified Skeptic.
Episode 218 - Reliving the Absolute Stupidest Parts of "Michelle Remembers"
Blessed are the forgetful, but we're cursed with "Michelle Remembers" instead.
Episode 217 - Satanic Serpents II
Wind yourself up, constrict your assumptions, and get ready to sink your teeth into another Serpentine Symposium all about our Ophidian Friends.
Episode 216 - Satanism & Mental Health
We're possessed by both Beelzebub and Bedlam in our unholy-but-wholesome rundown of mental health challenges for Satanists.
Episode 215 - The Best Devil Movies (Golden Calf Awards)
Virtue is its own reward, but in show businses they expect gold too, so we're getting in on award season with our own entirely subjective (and Satanic) movie awards show.
Episode 214 - Satanic Sex
Just in time for our favorite holiday about cutting off a saint's head, we're baring it all and confronting the naked truth about sex, secularism, and Satan.
Episode 213 - Devil Jeopardy
What are...your chances of beating our reigning world Devil Jeopardy champion on this, the most pernicious parody of America's favorite answer-and-question quiz show?
Episode 212 - The Blood Episode
We're injecting something sinister into your stream as the Infernal Farmhouse joins us for a juicy discourse on bloody religions, superstitions, and magic.
Episode 211 - The Year In Satanism (2025)
Stop the presses! We need to catch up.
Episode 210 - Anarchic Satanism
No rules! Anything goes! We might not even follow the show notes this time! Because no one can make us.
Episode 209 - Becoming a Satanist
In The Beginning...we all had to find our own way. So how do people become Modern Satanists, and what do we do next? To talk Satanic Genesis we're joined by Taylor, host of the YouTube channel Antibot.
Episode 208 - History of Demons
Long-leggedy beasties AND things that go cump in the night--with Reno Satanic.
Episode 207 - Black Cats, Halloween, & Devils
Every dog has his day, but Halloween night is all for cats.
Episode 206 - There Is No Illuminati
Are you ready for Full Disclosure? We talk the most American of all anti-Satanist conspiracies with Brian from Chicago's own Illuminated Brew Works.
Episode 205 - Oops, All Pentagrams Edition
It's a real star-turn, as Unholy Rosaries joins us for our complete history of that most storied Satanic symbol, the pentagram.
Episode 204 - Mazes & Monsters
It's a far-out game, AND the only Satanic Panic anti-D&D scare movie starring the East Bay's own Tom Hanks. I mean, it has to be, right?
Episode 203 - Scapegoats
Hone your horns and get ready to get fleeced, because we're talking scapegoating.
Episode 202 - Destruction Rituals
On this episode: Total destruction, from mountain to shore!
Episode 201 - Lord Byron Still Fucks
When it comes to lording over other Satanist writers, Byron has got the goods.
Episode 200 - The Medmenham Friar's Club Roast of Satan Himself
It's our 200th episode, and we're finally, completely giving the devil his due.
Episode 199 - Moloch's Summer BBQ Spectacular
Time to fire up the coals for a modest proposal as we grill some historians about some of their most brazen claims.
Episode 198 - Satanic Justice
We're getting our just desserts, but what exactly do Satanists have coming to us?
Episode 197 - Satanic Envy
It's all about the haves, the have-nots, and the shouldn't-haves as we gaze longingly at this particularly pernicious sin.
Episode 196 - Living Deliciously
Put on a pretty dress and come with us to the goat shed to enjoy the taste of butter, because we're living deliciously even if there's hell to pay.
Episode 195 - Satanic Sacrifices
Nobody ever makes sacrifices to Satan, so why the pop cultural obsession with this idea? We take a stab at it.
Episode 194 - Satan Scams
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Episode 193 - Desecrating The Host
Some people like to wine and dine their god, but for Modern Satanists that's a meal we're more likely to chew up and spit out.
Episode 192 - Satanists Fuck With Purity Culture
Pure evil is all well and good, but what happens when fundamentalists take purity too far--and teenagers and women end up paying the price?
Episode 191 - Lucifer's Library: Weird Reviews
You've heard what we think of some of the most notorious tomes in Lucifer's Library, so now we're bringing you the insights and outrages of an unsuspecting public.
Episode 190 - Satanic Individualism
As we learned from the Life of Brian, we are all individuals--but what does that mean for our Satanic sensibilities?
Episode 189 - Names of the Devil III
We're returning to our Ritual Rolodex and giving Satan a bad name.
Episode 188 - Satanists Read the Bible III (Year of the Serpent Edition)
Happy new year! In honor of the auspicious Year of the Snake we're revisiting our favorite scriptural serpent with a Satanically subversive perspective on the fruits of Genesis.
Episode 187 - Everything Everyone Wants To Know About Satanism
The only thing that burns hotter than Hell is a question without an answer, so once again we're uploading the most loaded questions about Satanism from the unsuspecting public.
Episode 186 - Rosemary's Baby Too
The year is one! Or whatever number, we lost count. But no matter when it is, it's time to revisit this most enduring classic of Satanic Sinema and rewind the reels on "Rosemary's Baby."
Episode 185 - The Year In Satanism
The year is almost One, and it's time to give the devil his due again.
Episode 184 - Satanic Curses
Foiled again! Just in time for Hexmas, a histrionic history of curses, great and greater.
Episode 183 - Deadly Sins: Satanic Gluttony
We're stuffing ourselves--with knowledge of course, as we dig into the Deadly Sin of Gluttony with Bonnie from Beelzebunz Bakery.
Episode 182 - Paradise Lost II
It's another day with you and me and Paradise.
Episode 181 - Hell Houses
We say "To Hell with this" and open some seasonal houses that should go off the market.
Episode 180 - Frankenstein
Our shocking Halloween season show disinters some Satanic perspectives on Mary Shelley's modern Mephistophelean marvel, "Frankenstein."
Episode 179 - "Rainbow Black" w/Maggie Thrash
We color our perspectives about Maggie Thrash's new book, a Satanic Panic parable for readers on every spectrum.
Episode 178 - Satanic Bible III
It seems the third time is not the charm, as our fundy friends struggle with old Anton LaVey's infamous Satanic Bible, the most shocking exposition of heresy that most of them have never read.
Episode 177 - Satanic Cults
Pour a nice, tall glass of Flavor Aid and get ready for some devilish deprogramming as we go in search for real, honest-to-badness Satanic cults.
Episode 176 - The Hot Satan Episode
It's all led up to this: We unveil our understanding of everyone's favorite sidepiece of Satanic statuary, the rock-hard foundation of our Modern Satanic perspective, the one, the only--Hot Satan.
Episode 175 - Satanic Bodies & Bodily Autonomy
We all want to save our skins, but what are we saving them for? We tell fundies "Hands off" as we embrace our rights over our own sinful selves.
Episode 174 - The Left-Hand Path
We lean even leftier than usual as we chart a path from demon sex to "hidden masters" to this oft-referenced but little understood religious perspective.
Episode 173 - "Law Enforcement Guide to Satanic Cults"
We play bingo to beat the worst of 90s Satanic Panic copaganda.
Episode 172 - Unbaptisms
It's definitely not safe to get back in the water.
Episode 171 - Satanic Beliefs
When it comes to Satan we're true believers, but what do our Satanist peers and antecedents really believe in, and why is so much of it so weird?
Episode 170 - Satanic Parenting
The forbidden fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.
Episode 169 - Satanic Blasphemy
Blasphemy: Is it a means to an end, or just a means to offend? We've got unspeakable opinions on Blasphe-Me and Blasphe-You, with Dex and Chalice.
Episode 168 - The Walpurgisnacht Episode
The most bewitching witching hour, from Spectres to Satanisms to feminist revolutions.
Episode 167 - Devilution (with Aron Ra)
While modern research digs at the roots of our evolutionary tree, the public's relationship with science is in danger of becoming dead wood. Aron Ra joins us for a discussion about ancient ancestors and modern misconceptions.
Episode 166 - The Wicker Man
Something Wicker this way comes, as we rekindle our interest the most heathenish of horror classics, 50 years after it scared the Hell into audiences.
Episode 165 - Ohio's Great Satanic Panic ("Digging Up Devils")
Author Jack Legg is here to dig up all the dirt on the Satanic Panic in his own backyard with his new book "Digging Up Devils," the story of 80 human sacrifices that never happened.
Episode 164 - Deadly Sins: Satanic Greed
On this episode: How can greed be a sin if it also makes the world go round? Ethicist John Paul Rollert joins us as we cash in our chips.
Episode 163 - The Cannibalism Episode
We're biting off more than we can chew with mythical Satanic cannibals past and present, and it's a mouthful.
Episode 162 - Priests of Satan
Its time to correct some clerical errors with our comprehensive history of Sinister Ministers--fictional and factual.
Episode 161 - The Return of Lilith
Our favorite feminist fiend is back, as we uncover even more esoteric history revealing why Lilith always comes out on top.
Episode 160 - Drunk Heresy: The Geraldo Special
We remember the infamous 1988 Geraldo Satanism special--and then drink to forget the infamous 1988 Geraldo Satanism special.
Episode 159 - Satanists Read the Book of Mormon
We've tested Testaments new and old, and so it came to pass that we delve into the most fundamentally American of all fundamentalist American religions and meet their really weird devil.
Episode 158 - Selling Your Soul
It's a buyer's market, but everything must go! Sidney Sin joins us for a who's who of who's sold their souls for fame, fortune, and malevolent musicality in human history.
Episode 157 - The Pazuzu Episode
Pazuzu, king of ancient wind demons and friend to children everywhere; but what made Pazuzu the most popular demon of his day, and what can his myth tell us about the nature of religion, morality, and storytelling? Digital Hammurabi's Megan Lewis explains.
Episode 156 - Satanists Read the Bible: "A Game For Good Christians"
Black Mass Appeal is developing a King James Aversion with this down and very dirty study of the absolute worst parts of the Bible.
Episode 155 - Summoning Satan
Where do you go for face time with the Big S? To the library, of course.
Episode 154 - The Amityville Horror
We're making a Halloween house call to America's most famous haunted home to learn how the Amityville Horror conjured a new brand of American demonology.
Episode 153 - The Sudbury Devil
Atun-Shei Film's Andrew Rakich talks religion, race, and recreancy with his new Satanic historical thriller "The Sudbury Devil."
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