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Jul 3, 2015 · Revisiting America's Satanic Panic: When Heavy Metal and the Devil Himself Stalked the Earth. 'Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Panic in the 1980s' provides a fascinating a look back at this...
Oct 20, 2016 · But the national panic surrounding subliminal satanic messages in rock music was about to reach fever pitch. In the early ’70s, backmasking—or the practice of recording vocals and instruments...
Oct 30, 2020 · The popularity of the genre was rising, creating the perfect conditions for the “Satanic Panic” coming up in the following decade. Heavy metal had a heyday in the ‘80s with bands like Mötley Crüe , Guns n’ Roses , Quiet Riot , and Def Leppard dominating the Billboard Top Ten charts.
Mar 31, 2021 · One of the most famous, prolonged mass media scares in history, Satanic Panic was characterized at its peak by fearful media depictions of godless teenagers and the deviant music and media...
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Nov 30, 2016 · While most of us metal purists would agree that Satan has always been the inspiration behind the best tunes when it comes to metal’s theological aspects, artists who promote Christian themes in their music have existed for as long as metal has been around.
Oct 6, 2020 · In this rebroadcast episode of Deviate Rolf delves into the idea of “backward masking” in rock music, and how it came to influence notions of “Satanic Panic” in America over the course of the 1980s.
Mar 31, 2021 · In May 1985, the news program “20/20” ran a segment on Satan worship that described animal mutilations “clearly used in some kind of bizarre ritual,” rock music “associated with devil ...
