In terms of hysterical moral panics over pretty prosaic pop culture, the Satanic subliminal messages in rock music scare ranks somewhere between all the people burning Beatles records after John Lennon’s ill-advised Jesus crack and the time a large portion of the American population genuinely ...
From the gripping opener “Liege of Inveracity” to the closing crusher, “Jesus Wept,” Suffocation traversed serpentine twists and turns along complex song structures, employing both technicality and slamming rhythms that served as the blueprint for both respective sub-genres in the ensuing decades....