Joyful Bliss

Joyful bliss

Though satanic in nature, each concert performance is also influenced by religion. One of the ghouls interviewed said that the goal of their unique theatrics is to mimic a church mass “What we wish to simulate at our shows, to the point where it's real, is a mass. It's this idea of religion, where people meet in a room or a building or a place that we have agreed upon as being solemn, and we then conduct predetermined rituals – rituals being the songs, or movements, things like that – in order for us to reach a sense of divine presence. And a lot of the sensations that we are evoking at our shows are very close to the sort of warm religious feelings you would get from an actual church mass. We're using the same sort of symbolism as the church, in a way, but with the idea of achieving bliss. Joyful bliss.”