Jason Myers – Musician, Magician & Green Witch On A Mission

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....

Born in 1972, Jason Myers has been a practicing Witch since the mid-1980s and is a 2nd-degree priest with the Cabot Kent Hermetic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts. He currently lives in a 125-year-old cottage by the forest in the south hills of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

Jason may be best known as the bassist for the pagan traditional heavy metal band, Icarus Witch, which he co-founded twenty years ago. His group recently released No Devil Lived On a futuristic Witchcraft concept album, their seventh release for Cleopatra Records. They were named one of the two best metal bands from Pennsylvania by the genre’s premier outlet, BraveWords.com.

Icarus Witch has toured the world and played with legendary acts like the late Iron Maiden vocalist, Paul Di’Anno, Black Sabbath (with Dio), Queensrÿche, and Twisted Sister. In the studio, they’ve collaborated on recordings with legends like former Rainbow/Deep Purple singer Joe Lynn Turner and Dokken guitar hero, George Lynch.  

For his music, Myers has been featured in top-tier magazines such as Guitar World, Bass Player, Classic Rock, SPIN, Decibel, and Metal Hammer. Yet he’s just as happy to discuss his views on the occult with prominent outlets such as Witches & Pagans, WITCHES Magazine, The Occult Unveiled, HuffPost, Yahoo! Life, or even animal-friendly outlets like Chewy.

Speaking of animal-friendly, Jason became vegan for the animals in the late 1990s after being a vegetarian since the early ‘90s. To further his environmental activism, he co-founded Litter Wizards, an organization that advocates for and actively removes trash from nature.

He’s a regular contributor to the Cabot Kent Hermetic Temple newsletter and is currently writing his first book which explores the intersection between plant-based living and nature-based spirituality.

In 2023, Jason Myers proudly had his 30-year-old hand-crafted athame, Shadowchaser, enshrined in the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft & Magick alongside artifacts from his occult icons like Aleister Crowley, Gerald Gardner, Sybil Leek, Laurie Cabot, Oberon Zell, and Raymond Buckland in his home state of Ohio.

In early 2024, he was certified by Reverend Mother Laurie Cabot as a psychic tarot reader which he now does professionally. He’s also taken expert courses in astrology and co-led a class on practical applications of the Kybalion.

Most recently, Myers was invited to speak at New York Comic Con for the “Witches After Dark” panel which also featured prominent Witch authors and organizers, Starr Ann RavenHawk, The Glam Witch Michael Herkes, and panel mastermind, Judy Ann Nock.

What the future holds for this pagan “Eldling” (as his high priestess friends Kat Tigner and Tamara Forslun refer to him) remains to be seen.