# Remember those satanic acronyms for '80s metal/hard rock bands? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 28, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135 "2003-02-28T15:07:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tattman40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tattman40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tattman40)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/21 "2013-03-29T00:53:02Z")
Not band name,but Ozzy’s song S.A.T.O. I always heard it stood for… Satan Arrives Thru Ozzy ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/22 "2013-03-29T02:14:19Z")
> [@tattman40](#): > > Not band name,but Ozzy’s song S.A.T.O. I always heard it stood for… > > Satan Arrives Thru Ozzy A hidden Satanic meaning in **Black Sabbath** , huh? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/23 "2013-03-29T02:50:38Z")
Rob “Zounds! Our Mummylike Beastial Invasions Escalate” (Finding M undead is hard) ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/24 "2013-03-29T03:00:17Z")
> [@tattman40](#): > > Not band name,but Ozzy’s song S.A.T.O. I always heard it stood for… > > Satan Arrives Thru Ozzy Our preacher said it was “Satan’s Answer to Ozzy” ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/25 "2013-03-29T04:55:06Z")
> [@Junior\_Spaceman](#): > > I just wanted to say that I’d never heard the **Rush** one, and it’s one of the funniest things I’ve seen in months 😃 > > And isn’t finding a sinister _hidden_ message in the name ‘Slayer’ a little redundant? This is kind of a hijack, but I still cannot understand why or how the band \*\*Rush \*\*was ever, in any way, shape or form lumped in with Metal bands by anyone! The are the quintessential 70s prog band, artsy-fartsy, Canadian, concept-album prone etc. A few of their songs have a hard rock edge, but Metal?!? Are you kidding?! ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/26 "2013-03-29T05:14:26Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > This is kind of a hijack, but I still cannot understand why or how the band \*\*Rush \*\*was ever, in any way, shape or form lumped in with Metal bands by anyone! The are the quintessential 70s prog band, artsy-fartsy, Canadian, concept-album prone etc. A few of their songs have a hard rock edge, but Metal?!? Are you kidding?! You think the fundamentalist nutjobs who come up with this care about such distinctions? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/27 "2013-03-29T05:39:22Z")
Judges Under Satan’s Thrall Imperil Naifs; Beelzebub Induces Eager Babies for Erotic Rendezvous. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/28 "2013-03-29T06:25:08Z")
**Jesus Accepts My Eternal Sinning Only To Torment Others** **\m\ \>\_\ **Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/29 "2013-03-29T06:59:44Z") **J** olly **A** ntichrist **M** inions **E** ngage **S** atanic **O** ccult **T** weets **T** hrough **O** bsession. 🙂 🙂 🙂 EDIT: doh, ninja’d! ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/30 "2013-03-29T07:22:54Z")
[ÖTTÖ!](http://i1281.photobucket.com/albums/a502/thebeastlyrotter/jamesottoalbum_zpse1ec787b.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/31 "2013-03-29T11:20:14Z")
[When asked about the band’s name Lawless has avoided giving a straight answer; in one interview he answered, “We Ain’t Sure, Pal.”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.A.S.P.) That’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/32 "2013-03-29T12:26:30Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > **Jesus Accepts My Eternal Sinning Only To Torment Others** > > **\m\ \>\_\ [@cmyk](#): > > **J** olly **A** ntichrist **M** inions **E** ngage **S** atanic **O** ccult **T** weets **T** hrough **O** bsession. > > 🙂 🙂 🙂 > EDIT: doh, ninja’d! LOL. The “S” has to stand for suicide in there somewhere…something like **J** ust **A** llow **M** e **E** ndless **S** uicide…something something… ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/33 "2013-03-29T13:22:51Z")
_ **A** _smodel + _ **B** _elial _ **B** _eget the _ **A** _nti-christ. Not a joke. Well, not MY joke at any rate. My parents once got a pamphlet about devil-worship in “rock & roll” and this was actually one of the acronyms they claimed were real. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/34 "2013-03-29T15:17:10Z")
How about devious Christian acronyms? **B** ible **L** overs **A** nd **C** hristian **K** nights **S** wiftly **A** ssign **B** eelzebub’s **B** attalions **A** ll **T** o **H** ell! ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/35 "2013-03-29T15:25:05Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > A hidden Satanic meaning in **Black Sabbath** , huh? :dubious: Nitpick: S.A.T.O. wasn’t a Black Sabbath song ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/36 "2013-03-29T23:29:59Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > **J** olly **A** ntichrist **M** inions **E** ngage **S** atanic **O** ccult **T** weets **T** hrough **O** bsession. > > 🙂 🙂 🙂 > EDIT: doh, ninja’d! This is a joke about another poster, not a musician. This seems like a fun-enough topic that I’d be willing to overlook the zombie thing, but I’m going to close this if people break the rules. ---
**Author:** ![mike\_ahndembroak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mike\_ahndembroak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike_ahndembroak)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/37 "2013-03-30T01:46:48Z")
I once seen a picture of Blackie Lawless wearing leopard print spandex with a caption that read W.A.S.P “Wears Animals Silly Patterns” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/38 "2013-03-30T01:52:44Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > This is kind of a hijack, but I still cannot understand why or how the band \*\*Rush \*\*was ever, in any way, shape or form lumped in with Metal bands by anyone! The are the quintessential 70s prog band, artsy-fartsy, Canadian, concept-album prone etc. A few of their songs have a hard rock edge, but Metal?!? Are you kidding?! Well there is [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22Starman%22_emblem_(Rush_%222112%22_album).png) logo. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/39 "2013-03-30T04:33:10Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Well there is [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22Starman%22_emblem_(Rush_%222112%22_album).png) logo. It looks like a naked toddler frightened by Texaco. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135/40 "2013-03-30T04:39:54Z")
Getting mad about Rush using a 5-pointed star (not even a real pentagram!) reminds me of either: “edgy” metal bands trying to be “evil”/busybody Christian moralists complaining about the [eeeeevul Satan cross](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_St._Peter). …but of course that’s not wrong, considering it’s most associated with the most [demonic faith on the planet](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0074/0074_01.asp). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-those-satanic-acronyms-for-80s-metal-hard-rock-bands/158135.md?page=3)