DAERHT NEPO THGIN YADNOM 🌘 summoning the powers of darkness through RAWK

Halloween is only 10 weeks away. Let's make it spooky, and get spookier the closer we get. Listen to your backmasked LPs and summon the Dark Ones.

A crappy doodle from 2020 according to some google app that tries to save everything you ever spew out unless you disable that function, which I have now done. Mostly I drew it as an exercise to acclimate to new art supplies, and also to try and find a quicker, simpler style than I typically use. There was a story behind the drawing which I no longer remember, but it didn't test well with the audience (older & younger daughter) so I discarded the idea and drawing. Thank The Googs for this drunken stumble around the Cul-de-Sac of Failure.

Famous backmasked tracks (some allegedly) in Rock and Roll in the 60s and 70s:

• Stairway to Heaven - Zep
• Revolution #9 - Fab 4
• Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
• Highway to Hell - AC⚡️DC
• Eldorado - ELO

Lots of other examples. All of them Satanic. All of them. We used to spin the records in reverse to hear them. We scratched up a lot of LPs and some of us damaged needles, but as far as I know, none of us killed anyone or started worshiping the devil.

(I was sent to evangelical fundamentalist churches and summer camps as a kid where I learned that everything I liked was bad. Satanic Panic was in full swing so if I were to go through the entire list of "BAD THINGS", it would be everything other than God, respecting your elders, and viewing the kids you were attracted to as "sisters and brothers". Gross!)

Consider the orphan image above a STORY PROMPT. What are they trying to summon? What will they get instead with their hastily scratched pentagram in the sand? Why is their au pair not more attentive? What is she listening to? Maybe a track with a backmasked message by Styx or Gnarls Barkley or Brittney Spears?

Or feel free to color the image.* Best coloring job gets a free Chick Tract. Or talk about Monday and your never-ending stream of woes.

Hail Satan!

L'inferno, 1911, Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe De Liguoro Here if you want to watch it: https://youtu.be/BRUkyHvsvfg

*download and color on your phone or computer. Or print and color. Do NOT try to color directly onto your screen.