Many people have associated Motörhead’s music with the devil and selling your soul. At first, it is quite a laugh because it is simply music, but when this song is played in reverse you might second ...

It must have been odd to hear Led Zeppelin in church, particularly one of the Fundamentalist Christian persuasion, but in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, youth pastors around the country began playing ...

A while back, I was browsing at a favorite used book shop and found a paperback called Backward Masking Unmasked. Written in 1983 by a youth minister named Jacob Aranza, it’s an unintentionally ...

Conspiracy theorists often find ‘secret’ lyrics by playing records backwards. BBC Culture picks apart the myths to find the best subliminal meanings. In 1878, a year after he created the phonograph, ...

Just as the phone conversation between myself and Stephen McBean, leader of the Vancouver, British Columbia, band Black Mountain, is warming up, it gets cut short. The quintet’s van is being pulled ...

From the truly creepy to the positively absurd, the hidden messages rumored to be inside these songs have led to a lot of fan theories. With backmasking, you usually can‘t hear the hidden message ...

Kia released its 60-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube, where viewers can hear a hidden message when they watch it in reverse, according to a press release provided to Mobile Marketer. The tactic, called ...

John Lennon established himself as a forward-thinking artist with The Beatles. He had many opportunities to prove it once the band gave up touring to focus on studio experimentation. Ringo Starr ...