It's schtick. An act. Twisted iconography coupled with the power of the tritone put asses in seats and young fists in the air.
The diminished fifth. Diabolus in musica.
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Which makes it worse. Sincerely held Satanic beliefs are disgusting, to be sure, but pretending at devil worship is just as dangerous. Potentially more dangerous, since it implies a complete lack of respect for the forces (even just psychologically) that you’re playing with.
Iirc the guitarist for Black Sabbath was the Satanist, the rest were just in it for the sex, drugs, money and degeneracy.
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