Mogwai Fear Satan

It appears as the closing track for their 1997 debut studio album, Mogwai Young Team.

The origin of the song title stems from bassist Dominic Aitchison’s, the only religious member of Mogwai,[1] fear of the Devil, due to his Catholic upbringing.

"Mogwai Fear Satan" begins with a guitar melody riff consisting of three chords by Stuart Braithwaite and John Cummings, which is soon joined by bass played by Dominic Aitchison and a frantic drumbeat played by Martin Bulloch, which gradually fades in.

During the quiet parts of the song, in the buildup to the explosion of sound and feedback which Mogwai are known for, there is a quiet flute melody played by Shona Brown (who was thirteen at the time of recording)[2] over tribal-sounding drums.

A later re-issue of Kicking a Dead Pig included Mogwai Fear Satan Remixes on a separate CD.