On Wednesday, February 24, 2016 AD a darkly prophetic statement was made by Raphael Greaves on his Facebook page when he posted “A picture of a spirit in our living room just now. I am honored by the Dark Lord.” When asked “Where’s the devil?,” Greaves’ girlfriend, Angela Tierney, replied “He’s sitting next to me.”
On Sunday 27, the Sandusky, Ohio police received a call from Tierney stating “I’m sick of this ****. This is ridiculous. I was sitting there not doing anything. I didn’t do anything! Hello, my boyfriend just f***ing threw me up against the wall. He’s coming at me right now…I didn’t do anything. Drunk and goes ballistic, as always. Every f***ing weekend I have to deal with this.”
Police arrived to find Tierney laying dead near a neighbor’s home and Greaves laying dead at his doorway; both dead of gunshots.
A cousin of Greaves stated that when sober he was “Christlike,” had a “golden heart” and “showed up for Christmas, all the religious holidays.”
One discussion that has ensued is who was the real Raphael Greaves: the kind guy who was involved with his extended family or the glorifyer of Satanism and all that he represents? Some say that the dividing line was not Satanism but alcohol. Yet, such lines are never drawn very neatly and his actions and worldview are the result of a combination of factors.
He had much Satanic paraphernalia including tattoos of Satanic symbols and the fictional Necronomicon of H.P. Lovecraft fame which has become infamy. The Necronomicon is a fictional book which appeared in a fictional tale and yet, many have published Necronomicons some of which include summoning sigils but no banishing sigils. This means that by reading it and interacting with it people can summon real demons but have no way to send them away (even though the whole concept of summoning and banishing is a scam to begin with, a game that demons play—they never really go away). He also played Satanic music with the band Santanicon: indeed, such pursuits are a Satanic-con.
Fellow bandmate, Joe Aufricht, stated “I think it was the alcohol that drove him to do it, and not Satanism.” That may be the case and then again this seems like a false dichotomy. Why it is that even since the 1990s AD any and all negative actions perpetrated by Satanists are always dismissed as cases of “Satanic panic”? Why is it that only Satanists never take actions based on their worldviews?
It has been emphasized that Graves was a theistic Satanist which appears to be another one of those Satanic-cons. You see, Satanists such as those who follow Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan and their Satanic Bible claim that they are Atheists and view Satan as a mere symbol of base human nature, etc. Yet, even Anton LaVey turned in supplication to “brother Satan,” as a personal being, when his girlfriend’s son was injured via being mauled by a lion—see Miranda Barbour: is she a satanist and are her murders satanic crimes?
The fact is that, as evidence by an image posted on Facebook by Raphael Greaves himself: he was a member of
the Church of Satan and Anton LaVey made it perfectly clear that the “Choice of a Human Sacrifice” (as one of the chapters in the Satanic Bible is titled) is the Satanist’s to make and is perfectly acceptable.
Also, Greaves once posted on Facebook that “My neighbors probably have no clue that I have a Satanic ritual chamber in my spare room. Hahaha.”
The Encyclopaedie Metallum website lists Satanicon’s genre as being “Black Metal” and their lyrical themes as simply “Satan.” Their albums are listed as “Slaughtering the Saints,” “Hymns of Blasphemy,” “Death Toll Rising” and “Satan Rules This World.”
Here are some of the song names.
Slaughtering the Saints: Bastard In The Sky, Raping The Christian Virgin, Necromantic Rituals, Storming the Gates of Heaven.
This album cover features the corpse of a woman that has been implanted by a spear upon which is crawling a serpent.
Hymns of Blasphemy: He Hated Heaven (So He Went to Hell), Sacrifice to Satan, Take Me to Hell, Wicked and Beyond Salvation, Slaughter.
This album cover features the band’s guitarists standing on either side of Jesus on the cross.
Death Toll Rising: Grotesque Blasphemy, Hunters from the Dark Dimensions, Typhoon (this, in part, refers to Satanic anal sex rituals, see Satanic sodomy and the Typhonian tradition: sex magick), Take Me to Hell.
Satan Rules This World: I Love the Devil, Nocturnal Grave Desecration, Burn the Church.
Sources:
Yanan Wang Washington Post, February 29, 2016 AD
Tom Jackson Sandusky Register, March 1, 2016 AD
Kaily Cunningham and Allison Brown Fox 8 February 28, 2016 AD