Eight suspected Satanists have been arrested in Russia for allegedly stabbing to death and eating the body parts of four teenagers, reports claim.

The four victims were lured one by one to a country cottage in the region of Yaroslavl on the Volga River, a popular Russian tabloid said.

The teenagers were then stabbed "666 times" each, as part of a Satanic ritual, the daily said, quoting investigators.

The victims were allegedly forced to get drunk before being stabbed and dismembered.

Their killers then lit a bonfire under a tree near the cottage where they cooked and ate their victims' body parts, the report claimed.

Hair from the victims was apparently found in the embers of the bonfire.

The report also quoted interrogations with the suspects and said police had intercepted their phone calls following the killings.

The victims - three girls and one boy - were all aged between 16 and 17 and belonged to local "goth circles", a subculture that is very popular in provincial Russia, Komsomolskaya Pravda said.

there must not be any community centers there!!!

Reminds me of that story I read about those Nordic Death Metal musicians a few years back.

Seems one of them killed his girlfriend and then the leader of the Death Metal band he was in (thinking that the original killer got "brownie" evil points with Satan for committing the killing) in a fit of jealousy shot him in the head with a shotgun and then ate chunks of the brain to "absorb" the evil.

That is, when they all weren't busy burning down Lutheran churches.

Yep, some of those kooky Europeans sure set a sterling example.

I heard about that, didnt the surviving members of the band pick up part of the guy's skull laying on the ground before the cops got there? They turned their buddies cap into jewelry!!!!