Black Sabbath legend Geezer Butler has revealed how he met Satan face-to-face.
The 73-year-old bassist, born Terence Butler, said that he ‘got into’ Satanism for a brief spell in the late 1960s, around the same time he formed the band.
He said: “For about six months in the late Sixties I was into the Satan stuff, but then horrible things started happening.”
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He said one of his uncles “died suddenly”, followed by one of his aunts – and that he was then visited in his bed by the Devil himself.
Geezer said he was “visited in bed one night” by “a shadowy vision that looked like Satan”.
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“I went, that’s it, I can’t do this (Satanism) any more,” the rock legend continued.
He said the band – whose other members included singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitar icon Tommy Iommi, and drummer Bill Ward – had a massive ‘occultist following’.
Fans would apparently turn up a hotel rooms wearing black robes and chanting about the Devil.
The bass guitar player also said that the 1970 song Black Sabbath was a “warning” about the Devil and Satanism.
The lyrics to the song include: “Big black shape with eyes of fire…Telling people their desire…Satan’s sitting there, he’s smiling…Watches those flames get higher and higher.”
They continue: “Oh no, no, please God help me…Is it the end, my friend?…Satan’s coming ‘round the bend.”
Asked if he still believed in the Devil, he said he had ‘got into casting spells’ a few years ago, but that ‘bad things’ started happening again.
“(I tried) getting into spells and things like that, but bad things started happening again. So I was, like, oh, forget that,” he added.
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