But for many believers heavy metal
remains inextricably tied to the devil a
kind of doorway or portal like Ouija
boards witchcraft or other occult
practices that can invite the forces of
darkness into a person's life Dave
Mustaine is one of the gods of metal a
founding member of Metallica and the
founder and frontman for Megadeth he
says he has no doubt about the devil the
greatest lies that were told was
convincing people he doesn't exist and
and you know you see people who think
that he said red he's got a dhoti and a
pointy tail and stuff like that he
doesn't he's very beautiful he's an
angel why would he look like some
monster he's capable of looking just
like you he could be in this room right
now we wouldn't know it that's a scary
thought it's very scary song Mustaine is
currently on tour in Europe with what's
called the big four his current and
former bands plus anthrax and Slayer
our people right when they say that
heavy-metal music is infused with the
power of the devil in some cases yes and
not in all cases because you've got
great heavy metal bands that believe in
God and glorify Him we pray every night
before we go on stage that's great if
you handle with it 50 old man he shows
me a chord progression called the
tritone also known as the devil's
interval
The Devil's try tote is made up of these
three notes and dismount right here
drops down one so close so listen to the
difference
it just sounds evil doesn't it says dark
which is why the progression is used so
frequently in death metal
Mustaine says he is a Christian now but
wasn't always my mama's Jehovah's
Witness nice product was a witness and I
revolted into the woods craft because I
hated going out and knocking on people's
doors yes
witchcraft as a teenager Mustaine says
he cast two hexes the first was on a
bully who sucker-punched him from when I
heard he got in a car accident and
something happened to part of his body
that I had targeted in hex and that
showed me that it was real the second
was on a girl he was in a class with
everybody wanted her including me but
she was so out of my batting average and
and just totally out of my league and I
did it and the next day she was in my
apartment you were convinced that these
hexes that you were spells that you were
casting worked I was and and I do
believe in the dark side most people
think too you know black magic and
witchcraft and stuff like that isn't
real or it doesn't work and and I know
that it works Mustaine's fascination
with the occult continued into his
adulthood I was doing a lot of blood
packs with people just before we found
out about AIDS it was real simple stuff
well you cut your thumb and you rub it
with somebody else and become blood
brothers I don't want to make a
spiritual covenant and mixing my life
with somebody else so I don't know who
they are how they are Bible said that
blood is life and like so many people we
have met Mustaine believes that he
opened the door to demonic forces which
had a profound impact on his life was
your abuse of alcohol related to the
satanic influences that you'd been
dabbling in I say this every time I
drank I did not always do activities
that were satanic but anytime I had been
doing anything that was satanic I had
been drinking so the one make sense yes
it does there was a relationship
absolutely there are some songs Mustaine
will
longer sing like Megadeth's cover of The
Sex Pistols anarchy in the UK and he
says he believes he's better for I think
that I'm more dangerous now that I've
become a Christian than I ever was
before when I was trying to go the
opposite route because I'm armed with
the truth now
welcome back for believers the battle
with the devil comes in many forms and
it's waged on many frontlines we've seen
the harrowing journeys of exorcism and
deliverance ministry we've taken a
deeper look at the Amityville Horror now
did the devil make you do it can an
obsession with Satan wreak lives and
drive people to kill it was a gruesome
crime 15 year-old Alise paler was lured
into a grove of eucalyptus trees by
three teenage boys in 1995 they bound
her neck with a belt stabbed her
repeatedly and then raped her her body
might never have been found if one of
them Royce Casey hadn't come forward he
said she was a blond-haired blue-eyed
virgin and they were offering her as a
sacrifice to the devil the boys were
part of a death metal band and thought
that Satan could make their music better
Casey said it was an idea they got me
from altar of sacrifice of song by the
heavy metal band Slayer
it's live
Baylor's parents filed suit against the
band trying to hold them partially
responsible for their daughter's murder
a suit that was eventually thrown out
