To be fair, he may be completely wrong about the Nephilim (I like them, anyway), but he never said anything about being a Christian fundamentalist.
I wouldn't have gone that far, but the whole "black magic" and "satanist" thing certainly implies a very strong Christian viewpoint and fundamentally misunderstands what McCoy is about regardless.
To wrap up my comments on this in one post and hopefully put an end to my part in this fairly dramatic derail:
I
get why FotN is a
very acquired taste — I can't think of another band that requires the same level of 'buy in' from the listener. Their whole…
thing only works if you accept that it requires a completely straight face. There's no knowing wink to the audience that you get with the Sisters — FotN channel iconography that's equal parts post-apocalypse spaghetti western and The Fog, filtered through McCoy's largely impenetrable belief system that centers on Chaos Magic.
That's either Cool As All Fuck, or completely ridiculous. You don't have to
believe any of it, but you
do have to accept it and play along, or it's all just very daft. The thing is, if you do buy in, it's incredibly rewarding — I'd argue to this day that 'The Nephilim'* (aka 'The Brown Album') is one of rock music's all-time capital-G Great records, and their live shows are mesmerisingly brilliant.
If you don't want to buy in? Well, nobody's making you listen to them.
(Aside: similarities between the Preacher Man video and Hardware are hardly surprising, since it was directed by Hardware director Richard Stanley, several years before he made Hardware.)
*Vinyl track listing. There's an extra track on every version you find now — Shiva — a single B-side which was originally stuck in the middle of the album as 'bonus' on the CD version but which breaks the pace of the album in a way that's borderline vandalism.
