Coven is an American psychedelic rock band with occult lyrics formed in the late 1960s. Their most popular song was arguably “Satanic Mass”, released in 1969 off their classic debut album, Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls.

Coven had a top 40 hit in 1971 when they covered The Original Caste with the song “One Tin Soldier”, reinventing the anti-war song to be used as the theme song to the movie Billy Jack.

Coven was composed of vocalist Esther “Jinx” Dawson,[3] bassist Greg “Oz” Osborne (not to be confused with Ozzy Osbourne), guitarist Chris Neilsen, keyboardist Rick Durrett (later replaced by John Hobbs), and drummer Steve Ross. They are recognized as being the band that first introduced the sign of the horns to rock, metal and pop culture (as seen on their 1969 debut album release Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls, which interestingly has an opening track called “Black Sabbath”.