makingmusic476 on 20 March 2008
| stclam said: in the 70s, 80s, 1) you can actually play a vinyl record in reverse direction, so some bands did it intentionally 2) backmasking was cool, because ppl related it to santaic in the past; if you happened to be a rock band, backmasking actually help your image ever since CD replaced vinyl record, no one do the backmasking anymore. |
People relate it to Satanism because the primary belief of a certain sect of Satanists is that all things are the opposite of what they really are, particularly in regards to Christianity. As such, when you play a song backwards (particularly Stairway to Heaven, in this case), you get the true meaning of the song (Stairway to Hell).
Satanists don't actually worship Satan. They just believe that Christianity is a bunch of BS, and therefore push the opposite of what Christians believe just to rub it in their faces, in a way.
And no, I'm not a satanist. I'm a practicing Catholic whose just done a good bit of research in the past, because I've often wondered why the satanists are what they are.
