Underworld Amusements is proud to release Peter H. Gilmore’s “Goat of Mendes” as its first fine art print. Close work with Magus Gilmore on all stages of production has been done to create an appropriate representation of his work. Kevin I. Slaughter has personally printed each canvas using a high-end large format giclee process and has hand cut the frames and assembled each final piece of this edition of 33. Each print is numbered and signed by the artist and comes with a certificate of authenticity.

Painted in 1982, nearly two decades before he was to become High Priest of the Church of Satan, Peter H. Gilmore was morphing the occult illustration of Eliphas Levi into a truly Satanic figure. From transforming the wings into those of the Chiroptera, to replacing the merely representative phallus with an unabashed erect penis, Gilmore’s painting is fierce and carnal while evoking a powerful mythological effigy.
The image was used as an illustration for Magus Gilmore’s first book The Satanic Scriptures, published by Scapegoat Publishing in 2007. The limited hardback and slipcased editions features this image printed in full color on the case wraps, and all editions feature a black and white version on the first page of the book.

For information on how to purchase this print, visit the Germophilia website!

High Priest of the Church of Satan and author of The Satanic Scriptures, Peter H. Gilmore, will be on hand for signings at the opening of the Germophilia gallery show featuring some of his collage and painting work.

Date:     Friday, August 7, 2009
Time:     5:00pm – 9:00pm
Location:     Jennifer Bates Gallery @ Germ Books
Street:     2005 FRANKFORD AVE
City/Town:     Philadelphia, PA

Underworld Amusements presents:

GERMOPHILIA

GERMOPHILIA is about loving the disease. The disease is one of this world, the reason why your parents lied about there being a god and the Easter bunny. It’s the flesh, the darkness, the idea that freedom is not given – but taken. GERMOPHILIA presents a collection of artists with a wide range of styles and mediums together to serve as a catalyst to spread just that sickness…
The cutesy cheesecake of Stacey Barich will stir the loins, the totalitarian and infernal collage and painting of Peter H. Gilmore (Church of Satan), the disturbing clash of beauty and tragedy of the photos of Christopher R. Mealie (SexCats!), the worship of strength found in the paintings of Jack Malebranche (author of Androphilia: A Manifesto), the perverse misanthropy of Stephanie Crabe (Motel Bizarre), the haunting dreamworld canvasses of Stephen Kasner (Stephen Kasner: Works 1993-2006), and more. Nine artists presenting a collective picture of the world that subverts that status quo without slipping into the arms of the usual suspects. As a thirst for knowledge is a sin, GERMOPHILIA is a disease that will feed your eyes, mind and passion.

Underworld Amusements Variety Hour conducted interviews with all of the artists participating in the show and made them availablevia podcast. Available from the UA website,  iTunes, and RadioFreeSatan.com. Two truncated versions of the print catalog are available in PDF form to view along with the podcasts.

UAVH Germophilia Special 1 – Donovan, Mealie, Barich

UAVH Germophilia Special 2 – Kasner, Crabe, Gilmore, Slaughter, Tydings

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All the Mysteries of the Universe – Explained! Sort of…

Why are we here, and what are we supposed to do about it? What started the Universe, and was it a mistake? Does God exist, and why does he seem so interested in our sex lives? After exploring the phenomenon of TREKKIES, filmmaker Roger Nygard takes on The Nature of Existence. As he roams the globe to the source of each of the world’s philosophies, religions, and belief systems, Nygard interviews spiritual leaders, scholars, scientists, artists, pizza chefs, and others who have influenced, inspired, or freaked out humanity.

His travels highlight the words of such luminary figures as Indian holy man Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (The Art of Living), evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), Chinese Taoist Master Zhang Chengda, Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind (co-discoverer of string theory), wrestler Rob Adonis (founder of Ultimate Christian Wrestling), confrontational evangelist Brother Jed Smock, novelist Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game), director Irvin Kershner (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back), the body of Pope John XXIII, and Stonehenge Druids Rollo Maughfling & King Arthur Pendragon and many more….

Combining an investigative approach with humor, Nygard offers a challenging, humorous, and enlightening view of humanity. The most important journey we take, may be the journey to find meaning in our own existence.

If you only see one movie this year with all the answers, see The Nature of Existence.

The promotional effort for Roger Nygard’s new documentary now includes clips from the extensive interviews done with the numerous participants covering various topics. While there may have been a broader context in the filmed discussions, the clips are meant to excite interest and controversy.

Here’s one discussing The Devil.

The image of our High Priest is featured for the one about Doomsday.

Magus Gilmore has a page on their site which includes the videos in which his comments have been used.

Click on his image below to see them.

The pioneering French publisher has added Magus Gilmore’s book The Satanic Scriptures to its roster of diabolical titles.

Click on the cover above or this link to order directly from the publisher.

Brand new CD from UK Dark Ambient / Fortean Electronics act Satori – Neil Chaney (Pessary) and Justin Mitchell (Cold Spring boss). This is a collaboration between Satori and Magus Peter H. Gilmore, High Priest of the Church Of Satan. Satori provide their trademark deep, underground, pounding electronics, here with a ritualistic dark soundtrack atmosphere, while Gilmore bestows a seething tirade against the weakness of the modern world! His words are adapted from an essay printed in The Satanic Scriptures. Two 20+ minute tracks, the 2nd being a deeper, instrumental mix of the title track.

In the essay Idol Pleasures, Peter H. Gilmore begins with:

My generation was the first to grow up bathed in the glow from that flickering window into mediated fantasy called television. Aside from the growing repertory of talk shows and forms of entertainment adapted from earlier radio broadcasts, films became a staple to fill air time and provided a steady diet of literature from base B-movies up to high art cinema. The imagery that flashed ephemerally by, and for some time only in stark black and white, formed our collective unconscious of archetypes. My favorites, the ones that remained long after the show time was past, were the monster films.

He discusses recording the sound in cassette tapes to listen to later, before the ability to capture both the audio and video on home recorders. Sneaking out of his bedroom at night, he would watch the horror films that played on “The Late Show” and “The Late, Late Show”.

He sought out the toys of his favorite monsters, and grew most fond of the one he refers to his “patron divinity”, Gojira “King of the Monsters”! His house in Hell’s Kitchen prominently features a number of models of the radioactive reptile, and he’s always excited to see the next movie that tells the continuing story of Godzilla and related daimones.

Magus Gilmore was recently invited to addend a screening of the new giant monster movie Cloverfield. The  film was rumored pre-release to have possibly been based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, or even a new Godzilla movie. A review of his was published on the culture and entertainment web-magazine Buzzine.com.

Cloverfield: Review
Peter H. Gilmore

I just got back from a screening of Cloverfield (digitally projected and looking very sharp). I thought you, my fellow monster fans, might enjoy some of my reactions. There are “spoilers.”

So, in brief, it is a fun “ride” of a movie, worth seeing on the big screen, and the decision to make it a “found videotape” is a gimmick which allows the story to have a very immediate “you are there” feeling. Yes, it could be described as The Blair Witch Project meets the American Godzilla, but it succeeds with this premise, and there were some smart choices made so that it functions satisfactorily for a feature-length movie. At a bit under 90 minutes, it doesn’t wear out its welcome.

It is a bit tedious at the start as the characters are established. They are all dull normals who are conventionally good-looking and witless. Patton Oswalt was on-the-money in his salty, early pseudonymous review–it looked like they were filming the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog. No geeks or nerds (or odd-lookers) amongst the crowd. Not a single person who might have actually watched a Godzilla film (the leads are probably all too “cool” to have intentionally seen a kaiju flick). A true Giant Monster Geek would have been a welcome addition. He or she then might have had the savvy to advise the others what actions might be possible in order to get through a giant monster attack. If these vapid folk actually watched the news reports on the TV screens in the background, they would have had more info to work with and perhaps bettered their odds. However, these brain-dead mannequins do everything wrong, so they are essentially a guide for how NOT to survive a kaiju visitation.

View the rest at the Buzzine website.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Church of Satan works with FBI in arrest of teen threatening to kill.

December 16th, 2007 – Peter H. Gilmore, author of The Satanic Scriptures (ISBN 978-0-9764035-9-3) and High Priest of the Church of Satan, is back in the news this week. A Cortland, Ohio teen sent an e-mail to the Church of Satan last week in which he threatened to kill his grandparents and steal their guns and car.

Gilmore forwarded the e-mail to the FBI, and they contacted local police, coordinating efforts to investigate. After the teen was arrested, he claimed it was all just a joke. During a press conference following the arrest, the police credited Gilmore for his stepping forward to bring this to their attention.

“To send an e-mail making specific threats, to sign your name, that to me is not a joke,” Bazetta Township Police Chief Charles Sayers said.

If it was a joke or a serious threat is still under investigation, but the Church of Satan has been outspoken over the past 40 years about their supportive stance on law and order. Church leader Peter H. Gilmore reaffirmed this position in his just released book, The Satanic Scriptures. Writing on a range of topics in this collection of essays, Gilmore gives a Satanic perspective on related stories, such as the Columbine shootings, demonstrating that Satanism does not condone these murders.

Gilmore said his church discards most of the hundreds of e-mails it receives daily. But this teen’s message stood out, he said.

“I thought it could be a sick joke, but with recent events in Colorado and Nebraska, I thought it was best to play it safe,” he said, referring to mass shootings in an Omaha mall, a missionary school near Denver and a Colorado Springs church that killed a total of 13 people, including the gunmen. It should be noted that there has been no connection in any of those cases with the Church of Satan or its philosophy.

Gilmore said members of his group are epicurean atheists who see Satan as a symbol of liberty, pride, and individualism, not evil. “To the Satanist, he is his own God,” reads a statement on the group’s Web site from Gilmore.

Contact:
Kevin I. Slaughter
Scapegoat Publishing
info@scapegoatpublishing.com
Baltimore, MD

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A new interview with Peter H. Gilmore was posted on WikiNews.org. As of this writing, it is listed as a featured story on the front page.

Some good quotes:

“My real feeling is that anybody who believes in supernatural entities on some level is insane. Whether they believe in The Devil or God, they are abdicating reason. If they really believe they are in communication with some sort of interventionalist deity…you know, somebody can be a deist and think that maybe there was some sort of force that launched everything and now has nothing to do with it. That’s not anything you can prove. It’s also not a matter of faith. It’s a matter of making a choice between whether there was something or there wasn’t. I think maybe that is the most rational decision. I think science makes it look otherwise, but I don’t think somebody like that is mad. But anybody who believes in some kind of existence in deity or spirits or anything that intervenes in their life is not somebody I hold in any kind of esteem.”

“The Satanist, we look at our existence and say, “We’re not going to look for something outside of ourselves. We’re going to be proactive. We’ll go out there and try to make a change, and we’ll deal pragmatically with whatever life situations we have. So the Satanist, regardless of where he is living and under what kind of conditions, he is going to try to find a way to make his life as good as it can be based upon his own abilities and the world around him. We don’t expect everybody in Satanism to be a genius, we expect people to take whatever they have by nature, and do the best with it. So in that sense, we challenge people who are our members; the only idealism we have is directed at ourselves. We try to look at ourselves and try to realize what our potential possibly could be, what talents do we have. And then we try to take those, through whatever works is needed, to take those as far as we can.”

“…any fundamentalist fanaticism is a vast threat (to humanity). I’m looking for humanity to have a secular, pluralistic culture. People should be able to follow whatever fantasies or religions they want, as long as they don’t impose them on other people and force other people into doing things based upon whatever kind of holy writ they have. So the biggest threat to that are these fundamentalist who want to force people into their belief systems. They want to destroy people who have sexual activity they don’t think is appropriate according to their texts. It will be interesting to see in the future if people will wake up to this threat and decide to somehow corral that kind of behavior, defang people like that who are basically on a jihad, whether they be Christians or Muslims or any other religion, because we’ve seen in the past the Catholics were torturing people to death in the Inquisition, then the Reformation happened and different denominations and sects were killing each other. Heretics are being slaughtered. So this is not something just one religion is guilty of.”

IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN,

THE PAPERBACK EDITION OF

THE SATANIC SCRIPTURES

Ready to ship from scapegoat Publishing’s official online seller is the trade paperback edition of The Satanic Scriptures by Peter H. Gilmore. As evident in the above(unprofessional) photo, they make a trapezoidal shape when viewed from a steep angle! $15.95 plus shipping.

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FEW HARDBACK FIRST EDITIONS LEFT!

Scapegoat Publishing is running low on the first printing of the hardback with dustjacket edition of The Satanic Scriptures. We haven’t decided if we’re going to do a second printing of the hardbacks.

Buy them online from: Reptilian Records Online, Atomic Books, FeMaledictions

A special incense was created just for the book and available exclusively through FeMaledictions when customers order the hardback edition through her web store:

“In celebration of Magus Peter H. Gilmore’s long-anticipated book, THE SATANIC SCRIPTURES comes a truly Ceremonial Incense available only to those that purchase the hardback edition from FeMaledictions.

This granular incense was created by Witch Sara J. Rung with Magus Gilmore’s preferences kept closely in mind as well as his most exacting standards. Only the finest ingredients have been incorporated. Those that acquire this treasure will be most pleased.

Its richly thick, honeyed smoke is overflowing with Olibanum Boswellia Serrata Resin, Russian Lump Frankincense, zest of Orange Peel & Cinnamon Stick and a most meticulously intentional blend of the finest essential oils touched by precious Orris Root Butter.

You will receive 30g. You will need charcoals for proper burning. This is a gift. This Ceremonial Incense will not be offered for sale. The olfactory experience is incredible, you will however want to save this for those extra special occasions.”