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Disgrace Land is a production of Double Elvis.

This is a story about death, about suicide, censorship, idolatry in the ruination of souls.

It's a story about Satan and St. Michael, about leather studs and clothed hooves, and about heavy metal,

specifically about heavy metal icons Judas Priest, a band who made

great music. Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Dead-Eyed and Musclebound MK2.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to say you, say me by Lionel Richie.

And why would I play you that specific slice of,

It Ain't easy like Sunday morning cheese anymore, could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on December 23, 1985.

And that was the day that two young metalheads put a shotgun to their heads

and threatened not only their own existence, but the future existence of heavy metal.

On this episode, suicide, censorship,

satanic panic, St. Michael,

and the defenders of the faith, Judas Priest.

I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland.

Music Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland. The young rocker didn't know it yet, but he was a metalhead.

It was 1969, and that term wouldn't come about for another decade or so.

But here in this Birmingham, England church, he felt the heaviness.

It tangled with a very real sense of beauty,

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