Grand Belial's Key (GBK) is a black metal band founded in Oakton, Virginia, in 1992 by guitarist Gelal Necrosodomy and vocalist Lord Vlad Luciferian.
The band is considered to be a part of the National Socialist black metal (NSBM) scene, and has been categorized as white power music.
The next year, they played their first concert with Kommando on bass (from Arghoslent) and Tom Philips (from While Heaven Wept) on keyboards as guests.
After the release of the demo, Gelal and Demonic learned that Lord Vlad Luciferian added female voices to one of the songs without asking, and that he had messed up deals with several record companies.
[citation needed] The band's debut album, Mocking the Philanthropist, made Grand Belial's Key one of the most controversial underground black metal acts in the United States.
Mills, who also went by the names Grimnir Wotansvolk and G. Heretik and was the owner of the National Socialist black metal record label and distributor Vinland Winds.
[10] In 2017, World Terror Committee, label owned by Unhold, released the demo compilation Goat of a Thousand Young / Triumph of the Hordes, and also reissued the band's EP A Witness to the Regicide in 2019.
In January 2025, a show in Detroit that Grand Belial's Key was billed on was canceled in the middle of the event because the venue's owners learned about the band's Nazi affiliations.
[11] Grand Belial's Key has been considered to be a part of the National Socialist black metal (NSBM) scene,[3] a label in response to which the band has argued that its lyrics are simply "anti-Jewish/Christian and/or anti-religion".
"[2] Upon the release of the band's debut album Mocking the Philanthropist in 1997, Grand Belial's Key faced widespread controversy and boycotts.
[13] The band has also released antisemitic merchandise, including a shirt with a Jewish caricature and a back design that reads "Poisoned Rituals of the Levi Tribes" above a menorah.