Satan in music  

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"[Jerry Lee Lewis] started down the wide street, paved with gold, hypnotising millions of disciples, in the sin that is the devil's music. Rock and roll is like a painted woman. And he could not resist her charms."--Jimmy Swaggart in Great Balls of Fire! (1989)

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  • The musical interval of an Augmented 4th is sometimes known as tritone and "The Devil In Music" (lat. Diabolus in musica), a name given to it circa. 1400, given its unusual sound. Composers were encouraged to stay away from the interval, and whilst it is sometimes found in non-religious music of the time, it was never used in religious music until the existing system of keys came into use.
  • Satan was notably portrayed as "a man of wealth and taste" in the song "Sympathy for the Devil" by The Rolling Stones.
  • "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by the Charlie Daniels Band was the first song to feature a battle between the Devil and a musician. The theme of battling the Devil has been revisited several times in other songs; with the victor varying in each song.
  • Jazz was often called as "The Devil's music", by the genre's critics in the 1920's.
  • Black Metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is commonly associated with Satan, due to it's usual anti-christian lyrics and use of "satanic" symbols such as the Pentagram or the Inverted Cross.

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