Has there ever been a verified incident of a record that had satanic messages if played backwards, or is just a myth?
How could you “verify” it was a genuine, satanic message? A private consulation with Beezlbub hisownself?
If you mean has anyone deliberately, admittedly put music on a LP/CD/Cassette so it plays in the reverse of the original direction, yes.
Remember “Paul is dead! Miss him, miss him, miss him!” at the end of I’m so tired? Well it’s not really satanic, but it’s backwards.
However- most of what were thought to be such backwards “satanic” messages proved to be nothing but coincidences. Read Poundstone’s “Secrets” series for the facts.
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I went to a Christian school which had “chapel” sessions every morning. I remember that once, or principal dragged out an old record player, and played a record bacwards. “DAAAAAA DEEEEEBUUUL EEE MUUH STRRRUUU BAH” it warbled.
“See!” she shouted triumphantly, “It says 'The Devil is my strawberry!!” and then went on to preach for the next hour about the insidious evil of rock music, and how it would “get you” before you even knew you had been got. I always wanted to ask her if it would be okay to listen to rock, provided I listened to it forwards, and not backwards, but never got up the courage.
I think Weird Al Yankovic supposedly put in a backwards message that said, “Satan eats Cheez Whiz” and “You have too much time on your hands.”
How can you play a record backwards?
You rotate it in the opposite direction with your hand.
Well it’s kinda hard to rotate CD’s backwards with your hand these days. 
Best way is to rip the CD track to a WAV file, and reverse it with an editor. Here are some I’ve heard:
Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven”: "Here’s to my sweet Satan…blah blah blah Satan…"
Led Zeppelin “Over the Hills and Far Away”: "Christ really reeks, Satan is the one!"
Queen “Another One Bites the Dust”: "I like to smoke marijuana!"
Styx “Snowblind”: "Satan is in our VOICES! VOICES! VOICES!"
Granted, some imagination is required to hear these messages, and all are probably unintentional. Styx was quite peeved in fact to be named as one of those “backmasking” artists, and on their next album, they deliberately recorded a backwards message which turned out to be that Greek phrase on the back of a one dollar bill. Similarly, Iron Maiden created a backwards track that said (in a nearly unintelligible accent): “What ho said de t’ing wit the three bonce? Don’t mess wit’ t’ings you don’t understand!” (Yeah, I don’t know what it means, either.)
“Jesus loves you” played backwards yeilds something that sounds like, “We smell sausage,” but “Bob loves you” played backwards yields, “We smell Bob”!
Well, how’s this for a satanic message:
Free attire nil lass yet rofkeem [cough] ray the celeb[rity]
Which is the way you hear backwards:
frae eht tirehni llahs yeht rof keem eht era desselb
Can’t hardly get more satanic than that. Either forward or backward.
::insert sounds of Ferry falling down from laughter and adding this quote to her AIM sig::
I had a tape player that played songs backwards if you held the button in between rewind and fast forward. The infamous “Stairway to Heaven” part to me always sounded like “…I wish it would snow…” .
BTW, does anyone know what the first part of the Iron Maiden song “Still Life” says? It’s in German or something.
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Def Leppard’s “Rocket” (at least the version on “Hysteria,” I’m not sure about the radio version) begins with a line that for a long time stumped me. I finally decided it said “Oh I wish I could do it all to you.” Years later, I discovered that it was a backwards lyric from another song (“Gods of War”) on the same album. “Oh I wish I could do it all to you” suddenly became “We’re fighting for the gods of war.”
They did the same thing during an instrumental segment of “White Lightning” from the “Adrenalize” album where they took a line from “Heaven Is” (same album) that went: “She’s got the rhythm of love” and inserted it backwards.
As far as I know, both of these were done simply because they sounded cool. And to puzzle me.
But what does Pyromania’s “unta gleben glouben globen” mean (even though it isn’t backwards masking or even meaningful ).
Lissa, the principal must not have thought you were old enough at the time to hear the real words. It looks to me like the record was saying “Da Devil He Mastruhbays.”
Everyone else sees it that way, right. I’m not the only one who thought of “masturbates.” Right I oh skip it.
Nothing, so far as I’ve been able to determine. I had a German roommate and asked him, and he said it wasn’t German.
[sub]I buried Flanders[/sub]
Psst, cw, it’s actually Def Leppard:
The very lame(even to most Christians) Christian rock band Petra had a backward message in one of their songs that played said:
“Why are you looking for the devil when you should be looking for the Lord?”