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Podcast: Crimes, Killers, Cults and Beer: A True Crime Podcast
Episode: 21 The Satanic Panic and how Heavy Metal was blamed for it
Description: In the 80's and 90's, the media, politicians, and religion worked the US public into a hysteria, convincing people that the country was full of satanic cults who sacrificed children to the devil. It was all predicated by the book, 'Michelle Remembers' which was a load of shit concocted by its author, a psychologist, and his wife, a former patient of his. Everyone was being accused of being in a satanic cult. Lives were ruined. Families were destroyed.
Something or someone was to blame obviously, right? And the scapegoat? Heavy metal music. The bands were actually hauled...