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I am watching this video of a Japanese girl covering a rock song, and she uses
the word 悪魔 in an odd way (at least for me), I think it is being used as a
`の-adjective`.

1st sentence (<https://youtu.be/G--hl5yMBSo?t=7>):

> 悪魔の時間がやってきました。The devil's time has come. (?)

or maybe something like: `The time of truth has come`?

2nd (<https://youtu.be/G--hl5yMBSo?t=47>):

> 悪魔のチューニングをしていきたいと思います。- I would like to do this goddamn tuning.

At this point I feel like 悪魔 would mean something close to "damn" or "damned",
is it correct?
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words slang adjectives
Can 悪魔 mean something else other than devilish / demonic?
Instead of standard guitar tuning (from lowest string to highest, EADGBE), the
song she is playing ("Chop Suey," by System of a Down) uses a non-standard
tuning (CGCFAD). She is **referring to this non-standard tuning as 悪魔のチューニング,
or "the devil's tuning."**

So when she says

> 悪魔の時間がやってきました

it just means

> "It's time for [that song that uses] the devil ['s tuning]."

And when she says

> 悪魔のチューニングをしていきたいと思います

she's simply announcing that she's going to retune her guitar to put it into
this special tuning.

For what it's worth, in English the tuning she's using here is **not**
commonly called "the devil's tuning," but ["drop C
tuning."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_C_tuning) When the term "the
devil's tuning" is used in English (as
[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMg7nnz_dvk) and
[here](http://es.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/robert-
johnson-0507.aspx)), it generally refers to a tuning that includes at least
one [tritone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritone), the so-called "devil's
interval."
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