Jul 25, 2019
Stephen King has written over 91 novels and only one of them has ever been banned. Rage, released under his pen name Richard Bachman, was written by King in high school and released in 1977. After several violent incidents were connected to the book, King pulled it from the shelves himself, not wanting it to be a...
Jul 18, 2019
To lead us into episode 3, where we are talking about Stephen King's banned book Rage, we go into details on three other books that have inspired crime. We talk about the Rushdie Riots brought on by the 1988 release of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, the book that inspired the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and The...
Jul 11, 2019
Today, we’re talking the Judas Priest subliminal message controversy. In 1990, while on a US tour, the heavy metal band Judas Priest played a show in Reno, NV, where they were served a subpoena, seconds before going on-stage.
The allegations purported that there were subliminal messages in their song “Better by you,...
Jul 9, 2019
Next week on episode 2, we are talking about a song that was blamed for a violent act. As a transition, we are talking about serial killers favorite music. We go into the above the line killers talking about Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski and Charles "Helter Skelter" Manson. We...
Jul 1, 2019
On our inaugural episode, we dive into a gruesome murder that was inspired by Oliver Stone’s film Natural Born Killers. Two crazed teens tore through the deep south on a murderous spree. They watched the film repeatedly while dropping acid and then hit the road, hoping for the same adventure Mickey and Mallorie had....