music · 24 August 1990 · 34 years ago
Judas Priest successfully defended themselves against a lawsuit, after two fans attempted suicide while listening to the Stained Class album. Both fans eventually died, one immediately from a shotgun blast, and the other on a second attempt three years later by a methadone overdose. The prosecution claimed that there were subliminal messages in the groups music that caused the two seventeen year olds to carry out the suicide pact in 1985.
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