The Judas Priest Suicide Trial

As the operation expands it also begins to unravel. Word starts to leak out of the illegal stuff the Reagan administration was up to, Congress and the press investigate and people start to point fingers. Spoiler alert – they all got off scot free. Find out how it all wraps up in ...  Show more

When Ronald Reagan was president, America got involved in some deeply shady stuff, not the least of which was the Iran-Contra scandal – a convoluted operation that managed to combine an illegal covert war in Nicaragua with secretly selling arms to Iran. Learn all about it with Jo ...  Show more

On this episode of History of the 90s host Kathy Kenzora looks back at an unprecedented legal battle that put heavy metal on trial in the summer of 1990.British heavy metal icons Judas Priest spent three weeks in a Nevada courtroom defending their music after they were accused of ...  Show more

It's 1990 and Birmingham metal band Judas Priest are on trial in court in Reno, Nevada. The band are accused of influencing the suicide and suicide attempt of two of their young fans by placing subliminal messages in their track Better By You, Better Than Me. What follows is a si ...  Show more

!sretratseriF kcab emocleW... What's that funny sentence? A secret hidden message of course! Because this week we're getting into the weeds of heavy metal and Satanic Panic. Were Judas Priest hiding secret messages in their songs? Was music threatening the very fabric of the mode ...  Show more

Can a song kill you? In the 1930s, Gloomy Sunday was accused of doing just that — sparking a global panic and a wave of government bans on the song. But what is the truth behind the so-called Hungarian Suicide Song?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pr ...  Show more