Sacrifyx: The Dark Book

Sacrifyx: The Dark Book
Origin: The Gate (1987 film)

Description

The Dark Book is an obscure, 1980s European heavy metal LP album by serious demonologists Sacrifyx, and is the sole album released by the band shortly before they all perished in a mysterious plane crash. The album is a "warning": the band got their lyrics from "The Dark Book" ("it's like the Bible, for demons").

Original Book

TO DO: The book is not described in any detail in the film, except that it inspired the music album.

Music LP

Language: English

Physical Description: LP format, with full-colour cover and gatefold booklet.

General Content: Several standard-issue early 1980s thrash/speed/black metal songs, with spoken passages backed by ambient sound effects, plus a cover and lyric booklet containing illustrations, diagrams, lyrics, notes, photographs, and other material depicting occult rituals revolving around summoning and dispelling the "Old Gods" of primordial chaos: the album tells you how to summon demons, and there's a certain time when the constellations are aligned when you can open the gate, and let the "Old Gods" (the demons) come through.

Mythos Content

Spells: Gate, Levitation, Contact, Summon, and/or Dismiss Minions

• Sanity Loss: ?
• Mythos Knowledge: ?
• Occult Knowledge: ?

Quotes

Collage of images from Sacrifix: The Dark Book

• "In a time before the Earth, before the sun and before the light and stars, when all was darkness and chaos, the Old Gods, the forgotten gods, ruled the darkness. What was Theirs now belongs to the world of light and substance, and the Old Gods - the rightful masters - are jealous, watching mankind with a hatred that is as boundless the stars, with plans for the destruction of man that are beyond imagining! There is a passageway between our physical world of light and pleasure, and their spiritual world of madness and pain: a gate behind which the demons wait for a chance to take back what is Theirs! [Backmasked] May the old devils depart! May they burn in the fires of their own damnation! May they freeze in the infinite golden darkness of their own hideous creation! Begone! Begone! Begone! Thou art hideous, filthy, unspeakable! [Forwards] Gods of Darkness! Breeders of Chaos! Come forth, and take possession of this vile world!" - The Gate (1987 film) (link)

Appearances

• Fiction: The Gate (1987 film)
• Creatures: Gate Demons (minions and an "Old God")
• Dark World of primordial chaos where the Old Gods wait

Keeper Notes

The record and its liner notes are treated like a Tome in The Gate (1987 film), providing enough information between the liner notes and backmasked lyrics to open a Gate to the Dark World when the constellations are aligned, and allow the "Old Gods" and their minions to come through to our world. Everything is in the album: blood, the pit, the geode, levitation, a sacrifice: it proves we're in big trouble....

Trivia

• "I approached an artist/designer friend Mark Krawczynski who was a specialist with graphics and was in a band with his brother Mike. The band posed for the pictures and Mark designed the album cover. The liner notes included some of Randy Cook’s drawings. Vince Carlucci’s band Station Twang provided several pieces, including the heavy metal stuff. They were made up of several former members of the Toronto band Cardboard Brains. Paul Young, the leader of the Cardboard Brains also provided several of the voices in the film including the ghoul Dad’s great “YOU’VE BEEN BAD” scream in the driveway also used in the trailer. Carl Krains did the spoken word vocals on the song that inspires Terry to play the lyrics backwards." - Tibor Takacs, on the origin of this fictional band