This song was from right smack dab in the middle of the 1980’s.
Dio, who had just left Black Sabbath, released this song.
The visual imagery is typical of that time period. Where in the late 1960’s and throughout the 1970’s it was nuanced, in the 1980’s it was outright, it was very Church-like and borderline occult-like. Which drove the Fundamentalist Christians crazy, they perceived as a attack of the mean ol’ devil. In all reality it was simply a marketing tool or a fad. The point is that it worked, and sold records.
I could tell you some very humorous stories about being in Church and hearing the wild tales about backward masking, Satanism. I laugh about it now, but back in the day, it was serious stuff.
This is “Holy Diver”:
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