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So being quite a bit of a metalhead myself, this is a topic I've wanted to go over for a while.
Bruce Dickinson, lead singer of Iron Maiden as well as commercial airline pilot and a few other things, has quite the portfolio. What's more, he's still going strong to this day, which I honestly find just as impressive.
What you may not have known, is how blatantly obvious his being an occultist is, if you listen to any of his solo albums. I personally have two of those albums just because the music is good, and my ancient 90's car doesn't have an aux cord jack. But whenever jamming out to these discs, sometimes I just cannot help but chuckle at the very very not hidden references in some of the songs. "As above, so below", an entire song about the tarot arcana, and an album/song literally titled "Chemical Wedding" are just some examples, but honestly I could go on. He's got a motherfucking Goetic demon sigil on an album cover. Not some bullshit altered pentacle trying to look edgy, literally a specific demon's sigil! He doesn't even have to really hide this shit because the vast majority of people will be totally oblivious, but it's still funny. The dude's also, upon further research, responsible for a 2008 movie about Aliester Crowley coming back from the dead.
While I picked up on a lot of the hints on my own, I was delighted when I found some sort of source actually talking about it here:
Bruce Dickinson, if somehow you have the free time to be perusing random forums in backwater corners of the internet like this, you're welcome for getting a free laugh at me flipping my shit over here.
Bruce Dickinson, lead singer of Iron Maiden as well as commercial airline pilot and a few other things, has quite the portfolio. What's more, he's still going strong to this day, which I honestly find just as impressive.
What you may not have known, is how blatantly obvious his being an occultist is, if you listen to any of his solo albums. I personally have two of those albums just because the music is good, and my ancient 90's car doesn't have an aux cord jack. But whenever jamming out to these discs, sometimes I just cannot help but chuckle at the very very not hidden references in some of the songs. "As above, so below", an entire song about the tarot arcana, and an album/song literally titled "Chemical Wedding" are just some examples, but honestly I could go on. He's got a motherfucking Goetic demon sigil on an album cover. Not some bullshit altered pentacle trying to look edgy, literally a specific demon's sigil! He doesn't even have to really hide this shit because the vast majority of people will be totally oblivious, but it's still funny. The dude's also, upon further research, responsible for a 2008 movie about Aliester Crowley coming back from the dead.
While I picked up on a lot of the hints on my own, I was delighted when I found some sort of source actually talking about it here:
Bruce Dickinson, if somehow you have the free time to be perusing random forums in backwater corners of the internet like this, you're welcome for getting a free laugh at me flipping my shit over here.
