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2666330, getting a kick reading about this Coven record
Posted by lonesome_d, Thu Feb-23-12 10:24 AM

>Coven, "Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls." This a
>weird little curio that once I found about it, I just had to
>have a copy. Basically imagine Jefferson Airplane, in 1969,
>deciding to make a soundtrack for a Hammer horror movie - one
>of the Satanic ones adapted from a Dennis Wheatley book (e.g.
>"The Devil Rides Out"). Except it's not a soundtrack, it's
>just an album. About devil worship. With their 16 year old
>frontwoman naked, stretched out on an altar, on the back of
>the LP jacket. ...Yes, this got banned and is pretty hard to
>find nowadays.

Striking that the song titles include both 'Black Sabbath' and 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.' And of course a member named Oz Osbourne.

That gatefold pic is HILARIOUS, too... at least the guys all look like they're having a good time.