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. The version with Imagine Dragons leaked in 2013, but was released on June 6, 2019, on Avicii's posthumous album, 'TIM', with some additional lyrics, but is 29 seconds shorter than the 'True' version. 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.' An Avicii song that was released on his 2013 album 'True', as an instrumental. 'Dio, you can see here it's called Holy Diver.

'Look at some albums that I brought here,' he says. '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. 'Rock music and heavy metal music has the ear of this youth generation,' Bartel says in one segment. They also shared a free documentary about Making of Smoke + Mirrors which was pretty good. That’s because frontman Dan Reynolds wrote most of it after coming out of a serious depression that had plagued him since childhood but became worse after the band’s 2015 world tour. OG fans may already know about these songs but its good that the band acknowledged these and gave them some exposure. It’s subtle, but longtime Imagine Dragons fans will notice a newfound brightness on the Las Vegas band’s third album. What the video down toward the bottom of this post. Imagine Dragons has uploaded a bunch of old songs and demos to their website that can be accessed using the password anagram.

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