Pues no, porque es una castaña comparado con otros discos de esa banda.
LEAD: The lead singer for the rock band Judas Priest testified today that he once recorded a phrase backwards, but he denied planting hidden messages in his music to promote suicide.
The lead singer for the rock band Judas Priest testified today that he once recorded a phrase backwards, but he denied planting hidden messages in his music to promote suicide.
The singer, Ron Halford, was testifying in a civil suit in which the plaintiffs assert that subliminal messages hidden in the band's 1978 album ''Stained Class'' encouraged two young fans to enter a suicide pact. Their families are suing the band and CBS Records.
Mr. Halford testified that he recorded the backwards phrase in the background of the song ''Love Bites'' on Judas Priest's album ''Defenders of the Faith'' in the mid-1980's.
He said he ''quite intentionally'' recorded the phrase ''in the dead of the night, love bites'' backward and played it simultaneously with the same words recorded forward. He said the backward version sounded like garbled speech.
Washoe District Judge Jerry Carr Whitehead, who is hearing the case without a jury, asked Mr. Halford why he did it. The singer replied: ''When you're composing songs, you're always looking for new ideas, new sounds.''
He said it was the only time he could recall deliberately using the technique on any of the 14 albums the group has recorded.
Earlier, Mr. Halford gave a 10-second a cappella recital to demonstrate his vocal style on a song that two families assert contains subliminal messages that caused their sons to shoot themselves.
Attorneys representing the families of Raymond Belknap and James Vance contend that those lines on the band's ''Stained Class'' album contain a subliminal message, ''Do it,'' that prompted the youths to shoot themselves in a deserted church playground on Dec. 23, 1985.
Mr. Belknap, who was 18 years old, died immediately. Mr. Vance, then 20 years old, destroyed most of his face but lived for nearly three more years, undergoing several operations, before he died of complications from his injuries and the medications he was taking.
The band and CBS Records deny that any hidden messages exist. They counter that the supposed ''do it'' sounds are an exhalation of breath and a combination of drums, guitars and vocals.
PD. No se tape que parece que no llueve, aunque haya nubes.