Sounds Of American Doomsday Cults

***If your’e still here check out this document of the spellbinding chants, call-and-response decrees, hypnotic invocations and prayers performed against the demon rock'n'roll by the ultra-conservative New Age Church Universal and Triumphant, led by charismatic, gun-hoarding nutjob ELIZABETH CLARE PROPHET (who passed away this week at the age of 70)— believed by her followers to be divinely inspired by a host of Ascended Masters, including Merlin the Magician, Hercules, William Shakespeare, Jesus Christ, Gautama Buddha, the Archangel Michael, and other emo legends. Humorous for its damnation of seemingly harmless rock stars like Billy Joel, which explains why Negativland and other experimentalists would sample it, this mesmerizing, all-vocal performance should fascinate listeners interested in La Monte Young's drones, Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate," or the stringent choral works of Ligeti, Penderecki and Scelsi.