See Bartel discuss the metal albums at 17:01 below. Other Christian programs at the time made similar claims about Black Sabbath, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Motley Crue and untold others. You can see the inverted pentagram, which is characteristic of satanic worship, and also the goat's head as well, a lot of satanic symbolism there.'īartel also names English metal act Venom and Texas punk outfit MDC. Holding up Slayer's Show No Mercy, he calls them a 'very popular group among the satanist groups. This group on the cover here has a picture of a demon-looking character swinging a chain and drowning a priest, and of course that represents Satan's attempt to destroy God.' 'Dio, you can see here it's called Holy Diver.

'Look at some albums that I brought here,' he says. Winning their first Grammy Award in 2014 for the hit single 'Radioactive' from their debut album, Night Visions, Imagine Dragons remained near the top of the charts for much of the. 'And believe me, they're listening and they're learning.'ĭisplaying the cover art for several then-contemporary metal albums, Bartel insists the devil uses 'secular rock, metal and heavy metal' to influence the youth. Rising from the Nevada desert in the late 2000s, the pop-friendly rock outfit Imagine Dragons quickly became one of the most popular American bands of the decade. 'Rock music and heavy metal music has the ear of this youth generation,' Bartel says in one segment.

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