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Early Black Sabbath Interview Posted Online was a top story. Here it is again: The Metal Den has posted a snippet of a rare audio interview featuring Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath.
The interview is believed to be taped sometime in 1976 with L.A. radio station KMET. The program is called Innerview and the host is Jim Ladd, who began his radio career in 1969 at KNAC. After two years, he went on to Los Angeles station KLOS. In 1974, Ladd moved to KMET, known as "The Mighty Met", where he stayed for the rest of the 70s and most of the 80s, while also hosting and producing Innerview, an hour-long nationally syndicated interview program that aired during the same period.

In the clip, the listener will be treated to Butler opening up about his "strict Catholic" upbringing and early fascination with "Satanism". - http://themetalden.com/index.php?p=15280

Feel good about who you are and what you do... Hail the new flesh!

I've self identified as a Satanist for the last 28 years, joined the CoS when I was 19, and participated in the ToS from 1993-1996. With the ToS I found myself fundamentally in disagreement with the religion and resigned in '96 after being offered recognition into the Priesthood.

These days I am most active in The Church of Virus. See - http://churchofvirus.org

Truly I consider myself to be a religion of one devoted to the Tao Te Sat, the way of Sat. Sat being me, my middle name, and also the sanskrit word which means being or truth. Sat also means Satan to me.

Technically I'm an atheist, unless one accepts self deification as evidenced in externalizing the idealized aspects of one's self and calling it Satan... which I do.

So when I say I'm a Satanist, or I say, "Hail Satan!" I'm really just paying homage to those aspects of myself I admire, wish to strengthen or see as resonating with the archetypal character of Satan.

Why do such a thing? It's a fair question to ask, and the answer is simple. It's fun, and feels empowering. It could also be said it is far more honest an approach to religion than most people have.

In the final analysis all gods and devils are creations of the human mind, we take those aspects of ourselves which somehow don't seem human, might be frowned on in polite society, or just seem beyond our current daily ways of being in the world, and we assign them to supernatural beings.

These beings in turn are given license to do all the things we can't and are praised or condemned as existing independent of us.

They smite our foes, display their power openly, and move in mysterious ways that puny humans can't. It's my contention that a Satanist realizes this and instead of engaging in self deceit, he chooses to consciously externalize his god, his deified self, and pay homage to that.

So I follow the Way of Sat. What way do you follow?