Hello Rabbi, Would this kind of music be considered occult/magic and can I listen? The first paragraph is about an author who practiced “chaos magic”, but it sort of plays out more like a psychological experiment rather than actual magic. The second and third paragraphs are about music i want to listen to. Please help! From Wikipedia: "Burroughs had a longstanding preoccupation with magic and the occult, dating from his earliest childhood, and was insistent throughout his life that we live in a "magical universe"...His was not an idle interest: Burroughs practiced magic in his everyday life, seeking out mystical visions through practices like scrying, taking measures to protect himself from possession and attempting to lay curses on those who had crossed him...Burroughs insisted that his writing itself had a magical purpose. This was particularly true when it came to his use of the cut-up technique. Burroughs was adamant that the technique had a magical function, stating "the cut ups are not for artistic purposes". Burroughs used his cut-ups for "political warfare, scientific research, personal therapy, magical divination, and conjuration" – the essential idea being that the cut-ups allowed the user to "break down the barriers that surround consciousness."" Cabaret Voltaire had been influenced by WSBs 1970 essay The Electronic Revolution. They were particularly interested in Burroughs (slightly nebulous) concept of "control" - think of the song Control Addict for example - which he believed needed to be opposed at all times. Again from Wikipedia : ""Electronic Revolution", concerns the power of alphabetic non-pictorial languages to control people. It draws attention to the subversive influence of the word virus on humans and dangerous possibilities of using human voice as a weapon. Recording words on tape recorders and employing the Cut-up technique can easily lead to the false news broadcasts or garbled political speeches causing confusion and psychic control over individuals...Richard H Kirk, of Cabaret Voltaire, employed many ideas and methods from the book, saying, "A lot of what we did, especially in the early days, was a direct application of his ideas to sound and music." He described it as "a handbook of how to use tape recorders in a crowd ... to promote a sense of unease or unrest by playback of riot noises cut in with random recordings of the crowd itself."

Judaism and most particularly Hassidut, deal with music as an expression of the Godly soul and should also be used as a potentially positive influence on it. Accordingly, music which can be considered violent or nihilistic would definitely not be condoned by Judaism which teaches peace and harmony in a world which was created with a purposed and a direction..