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10->"''I'm the Devil, '''I love METAL!!!'''''"
11-->-- '''{{Satan}}''', ''Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny''
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13The Devil is involved directly in rock and roll, whether it be grabbing a guitar himself, or giving a musician [[DealWithTheDevil some form of supernatural assistance]].
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15After all, if [[TheNewRockAndRoll rock and roll]] is [[NewMediaAreEvil a message from Satan]], then Satan should [[ThePowerOfRock rock out harder than anyone else]]. Ties into the [[SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll moral panic surrounding rock and roll]] when it first came on the scene -- many self-proclaimed MoralGuardians criticized it as "the Devil's music."
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17Can cross over with the EvilDiva if the musician who sold their soul to the Devil then proceeds to use their music to lure their fans to do the same.
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19The trope name is a pun on the song "RockMeAmadeus" by the late Music/{{Falco}}, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmodeus Asmodeus]] being a Talmudic demon king.
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21Subtrope to RottenRockAndRoll. Compare VillainSong, HeavyMithril. Not to be confused with (though not mutually exclusive to) the demon prince {{Asmodeus}}.
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23'''This is not about musicians worshiping Satan, being accused of such, or mentioning Satan in their music. This requires the devil to get directly involved with the music.'''
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30* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'': Inverted. [[spoiler:Mara]]'s weakness is that rock and roll forces her to dance as long as she listens to it.
31* ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' has [[EvilRedHead Genkaku]] who plays a v-guitar that doubles as a two machine guns. He even gets this line in the English dub. "DEATH IS ROCK AND ROLL!"
32* ''Manga/DeathNote'': [[{{Shinigami}} Ryuk]]'s character design (both [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9d/f8/08/9df808f9bb5f023a0cc692e7be0f09d6.jpg the original]], and the one they ultimately went with) evoke the image of a rockstar.
33* ''Manga/GabrielDropout'': The opening theme is backed by choral music when an angel is singing and electric guitar when a demon is singing.
34* ''Anime/HellGirl'': One of the hell-banishments in the third season has Ai Enma's minions stage a rock concert wherein they play the background music for the scene.
35* ''Manga/MeAndTheDevilBlues'': Johnson somewhat unknowingly makes a DealWithTheDevil for musical talent (which is gained by the devil showing the person how to play, granting them amazing musical abilities the next time they touch a guitar). Johnson is soon afterward joined in his musical travels by a man named Ike who he [[LouisCypher suspects is the Devil in disguise]], who is also a good musician.
36* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Brook is a living skeleton who's also a skilled musician. While aboard the ship he plays sea chanties but during a brief interlude in which he's trapped on an island of cultists who've confused him for Satan, he composes darker, more rock-inspired music, including his hit song "Bone to be Wild".
37* ''Anime/SevenMortalSins'': Astaroth has a guitar on her person and styles herself as a rock musician. While the series has plenty of image songs, she's the only one who's singing them in-universe.
38* ''Manga/ShugoChara'': As Guardian Charas of a J-pop Idol, Angel El and Devil Il (and their Chara Naris) both have a musical trait. El's is a calm and tender singing voice, while Il's is... an electric-guitar. Which made it even more awesome when Amu transformed with her. ''DEVIL'S TUNE! HA!''
39* ''Manga/YouAreBeingSummonedAzazel'': Playing the guitar is Lucifer's favorite ability.
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43* ''ComicBook/ChickTract'': [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0034/0034_01.asp This]] tract alleges that all rock music, including ChristianRock, is controlled by a certain [[LouisCypher Lewis Siffer]]. The sad part is, you're [[PoesLaw supposed to take it seriously]].
44* ''ComicBook/TheDevilsTrumpet'': A legendary jazz trumpet is said to have been won off the devil and to be able to call him up with its music. A young musician kills its aged owner and steals it. He doesn't call up the Devil when he plays it, but he gets the next thing -- the freaking Franchise/{{Batman}} comes crashing through his window.
45* ''ComicBook/HackSlash'': In one arc, Cassie and Vlad run across a band that had entered a pact with an EldritchAbomination for fame in exchange for VirginSacrifice to carry their vessel into the world. When Vlad messes up their plans [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong they find a new vessel]] in the [[MisterSeahorse (male) lead singer]].
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49* ''Fanfic/HomestuckHigh'': Eridan and Sollux [[TransplantedCharacterFic inexplicably become demons]] and compete in a {{Narm}}fully-described musician's duel.
50* ''Fanfic/ParadiseThwarted'': A variation. When the archangels "form a band", or rather just take over Foreigner, Lucifer ends up as the manager. Michael is the lead singer, Raphael is the electric guitarist, Gabriel is on the keyboard and Uriel plays the drums. ItMakesSenseInContext.
51* ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos'': {{Beelzebub}} is the one who originally invented both the guitar and rock n' roll [[NoodleIncident (by accident, during the mother of all drug binges)]]. His guitar, ''Fuckslayer'', is the very first guitar ever made and [[ThePowerOfRock is so strong it can obliterate warships]].
52* A ''Literature/GoodOmens'' fic by Creator/AAPessimal, in which the angel and the demon seek to spread the word through rock and pop music, had to be taken down from FFN as it contravened the "[[RealPersonFic no real people]]" rule. Not being able to work out how to do it ''without'' referring to real people, the story ''All the Best Tunes?'' [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/769628/chapters/1444071 was migrated to A03]], who aren't so picky. At one point, Crowley has to directly adopt the persona of a pop singer to persuade [[Creator/PeterCook a nervous actor]] that he can carry the role in [[Film/Bedazzled1967 a film]]. The role is that the actor plays Satan who in the film is posing as a pop singer, the better to spread lust and despair among adolescent girls... Crowley has to give him a practical demonstration.
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56* ''Film/TheApple'': The devil (by the name [[LouisCypher Mr. Boogalow]]) runs a disco music company by the name of BIM, which somehow manages to take over the world with its ridiculous music, even instituting a "National BIM Hour" where everyone has to dance to their music.
57* ''Film/Bedazzled1967'': Once sequence has Creator/PeterCook grant Creator/DudleyMoore's wish that he can win his love through the irresistible means of becoming a pop singer. Alas, Satan then upstages Dudley by taking the stage of a show, not wholly unlike Series/TopOfThePops, himself. "Drimble Wedge" -- Satan as pop star -- knocks everyone dead and the girls rush over the unheeded Dudley to get to him.
58* ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'': Tommy Johnson claims to have sold his soul AtTheCrossroads for his guitar skill. [[LouisCypher Satan appears]] as a villain throughout the film, though he shows no interest in music.
59* ''Film/{{Crossroads}}'' is built on the legend of Music/RobertJohnson. Creator/RalphMacchio plays a Julliard student whose real love is the blues, and particularly with the music of Willie "Blind Dog Fulton" Brown, played by Joe Seneca. Mr. Brown sold his soul for the ability to play blues harp; after breaking him out of an NYC nursing home and traveling to the Mississippi Delta, to get him out of the deal, Macchio goes double-or-nothing in a guitar duel against the devil's champion (played by Music/SteveVai). The soundtrack is a lot of awesome music by guitar master Ry Cooder.
60* ''Film/{{Deathgasm}}'': The protagonist stumbles upon some sheet music that, when played, [[BrownNote turns anyone within earshot into demons]].
61* ''Film/{{Fallen}}'': Azazel possesses people just to do bad Mick Jagger impressions. And kill lots of people.
62%%* ''Film/Hamlet2'': Inverted.
63%%--> "Rock me! Rock me! Rock me, Sexy Jeeesus!"
64* Parodied in ''Film/JennifersBody'', where the Satanic rock band that sacrifices Jennifer to become famous is an {{emo|Music}} band called Low Shoulder. The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3DqfXq690I "Through the Trees"]] is pure 2000s pop-emo as its most sensitive and lovelorn, while the band's members use their sensitive NiceGuy personas as a way to pick up chicks.
65* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'': Jareth, the Goblin King, was explicitly designed to essentially be {{Satan}} as an irresistibly alluring rock star.
66* ''Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': A variation in ''The Lightning Thief''. Hades has the appearance and mannerisms of a HeavyMetal star.
67* ''Film/{{Repossessed}}'': Inverted. The devil ''hates'' rock music, and it is this that eventually drives him from his host.
68* ''Film/RockNRollNightmare'': Subverted. A heavy metal band goes to practice at a farmhouse where the family that once lived in it died mysteriously years before. The Devil takes an interest, and kills the band off one member at a time... [[spoiler:and then the lead singer, John Triton, reveals the truth. He's the ''Archangel'' Triton, the band was an illusion (modeled after horror film characters - Satan angrily comments that he should have recognized the bass player), and he's come to avenge the family that was killed. Yes, folks, it's ''Rock Me, Gabriel''!]]
69* ''Film/RockItsYourDecision'' details the story of a Christian boy who is persuaded that rock and roll is Satan's influence on youth through references to drug use, the homosexual lifestyle of some of the artists, and songs like [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand "Dancing with Mr. D"]], [[Music/TheEagles "One of These Nights"]], and even "You Need a Woman Tonight" by the Captain and Tennille.
70%%* ''Film/ShockTreatment'': "When heaven's in the music, hell is in control / The angels got the voices, but the Devil's got the rock 'n' roll" -- from "Look What I Did to My Id", a song.%%Quotes aren't context.
71* ''Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'': The titular pick itself was crafted from one of the Devil's teeth, and was owned by some of the most famous guitar players in history. And then there's the movie's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOBKxUT9Da4 final song]], a rock-off against Music/DaveGrohl as the Devil, who really does play lead guitar and drums.
72* ''Film/TrickOrTreat'' plays straight a lot of the "evil rock and roll" myths with a musician who does... something vague with his soul before suiciding in a fire. He is resurrected and summoned by someone playing his record backwards, and then proceeds to terrorize.
73* ''Film/TheWitchesOfEastwick'': The Devil and a repressed music teacher play a ''literally'' explosive duet for piano and cello. After this (and a bout of wild sex), the music teacher finds herself in possession of supernatural musical talent.
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77* ''Literature/GoodOmens'':
78** Crowley points out to Aziraphale that Hell has almost all of the good musicians. Oddly, even classical musicians. Including ones, like Bach, who dedicated all their work to God. Heaven has ''only'' Elgar and Liszt.
79--->"Can you imagine eternity with Elgar?"\
80Aziraphale shut his eyes. "All too easily," he groaned.
81** Crowley himself likes Music/TheVelvetUnderground, and he listens to a lot of Music/{{Queen}}, although that one is not entirely by choice.
82* ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'': Inverted in the first part, where the extra-dimensional demonic Wigmonsters are disgusted by music. When the group sings "Sweet Child o' Mine" to distract them, they turn around and walk away. Dave (the one singing) notes that one even spat on him.
83* Creator/LordDunsany: Inverted in many stories, such as "[[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fifty-one_Tales#A_MORAL_LITTLE_TALE A Moral Little Tale]]", where the Devil greatly despises singing and dancing of any kind because they are expressions of happiness and love.
84* ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire'': John Hodgman notes that Steve Vai traded his soul to the devil for hot licks, then used aforementioned licks to try to kill Ralph Macchio, failing because his eyes were too doleful. It's that kind of book.
85* Creator/RobertBurns: The witches' dance that the anti-hero of ''[[OlderThanSteam Tam O'Shanter]]'' spies on has Satan playing the bagpipes to provide music.
86* ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'': Inverted. The forces of Hell are staunchly opposed to ''any'' music. That's because music is, above all, fun, and the demons hate fun. Silence is ''also'' unacceptable because it lets you think. They prefer good, old-fashioned, irritating ''noise.''
87--> '''Screwtape:''' Music and silence! How I hate them both.
88* ''Literature/SilverJohn'': Usually inverted, as it's implied that the protagonist received his skills and silver-stringed guitar from a holy source. Played straight, however, in "Nine Yards of Other Cloth", where he is pitted against a man with an ebony fiddle from a very different source...
89* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': Asmodean, one of the Forsaken, was a child virtuoso on multiple instruments, although he never really fulfilled that early promise (and turned to the Dark One in hopes that he'd eventually manage it if he were immortal). After Rand captures him, he spends a lot of time pretending to be a traveling entertainer.
90* ''Literature/WeSoldOurSouls'' is about a '90s metal band, Dürt Würk, whose frontman Terry Hunt sold his and his bandmates' souls to Satan for success, then [[BreakupBreakout launched a far more successful career]] with a new band called Koffin while leaving the rest of the band to rot. He continues to feed [[{{Satan}} Black Mountain]] the souls of his fans in exchange for continued success. He has slowly come to realize that BeingEvilSucks, as he knows that he's going to Hell when he dies and that there will never be enough souls to satisfy Black Mountain.
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94* ''Series/{{CHiPs}}'': In the Season 6 episode "[[Recap/CHiPsS6E4RockDevilRock Rock Devil Rock]]", a goth rock star named Moloch is threatened when he begins hearing messages that "Moloch must die" (and they progressively become more ominous, including "Moloch WILL die!"). Although the moral rage aspect is briefly addressed, Moloch's alter-ego -- a twenty-year-old man named Mickey Northagen -- and the officers realise [[SubliminalSeduction the messages being subliminal]] and understood when Moloch's album is played backwards. Eventually, the cops and Northagen figure out that Moloch's morally corrupt, money-hungry record producer is planning to kill him during the filming of a MusicVideo so -- as a result of what he figures will be a publicity stunt -- he can make a huge profit with the sale of unheard of numbers of Moloch's goth rock album, and that the "Moloch must/will die" messages were created, backmasked and edited into the Moloch songs, so that teens can spend all their time listening to the songs and figuring out what it all means.
95* ''Series/GhostsUS'': Part of the punishment in Hell is being forced to listen to Music/{{Chumbawamba}} for all eternity.
96* ''Series/GoodEats'': Alton tells a legend about a blues singer who made a DealWithTheDevil that helped him bring his music (and hot tamales) to the Mississippi Delta, in exchange for his soul. Alton then goes on to explain that at least the part about the hot tamales is a myth: that was not the result of a pact with {{Satan}} (or any other demonic force), but rather cultural exchange between Mexican and African-American laborers.
97* ''Series/TheHauntingHour'': The episode "Long Live Rock and Roll" involves a supernatural being heavily implied to be the devil challenging a teenager and his garage band to an electric guitar duel.
98* ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'': In one sketch, a garage band kid battles Satan in a duel of rockers. Whereas the Devil is able to use six arms to play a ''blistering'' solo that would leave any guitar hero in tears, the hero is nonetheless able to blow his mind simply by playing the opening riff of [[Music/DeepPurple "Smoke on the Water"]]. Even though Satan is the frontman of Evil, Bobby had something Satan didn't have -- a Wah-Wah pedal!
99* ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'': When the Boosh travel to Monkey Hell, they smooth things over with the Ape of Death (monkey Satan) with a GlamRock-inspired musical number that features a bunch of his minions dressed like Music/{{KISS}}.
100* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Inverted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbyHseP4NLo a sketch]] where Music/GarthBrooks plays a struggling musician named Milo Jenkins who sells his soul to the Devil (Creator/WillFerrell) for a hit song, but it turns out that the Devil's songwriting and guitar skills both ''suck''. The Prince of Darkness struggles to get his guitar in tune, and the best songs he has to offer are banal novelties like "Fred's Got Slacks", Music/SmashMouth songs with reworked lyrics, and a PissTakeRap, forcing him to give up without claiming Milo's soul. Ironically, the Devil's sub-par skills end up inspiring Milo to write a song called "The Devil Can't Write No Love Songs", so he wound up helping after all.
101* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Lucifer, who is a fallen archangel who needs a host body to walk on Earth, occupies several different hosts over the course of the series, including a fading rock star played by Music/RickSpringfield.
102* ''Series/AYearAtTheTop'' is about a band which sold their souls to the son of the Devil for one year of superstardom. It didn't last long enough for anyone to find out what would have happened had the series been renewed for a second year.
103* ''Series/YourPrettyFaceIsGoingToHell'': Subverted. After a hundred million years of practicing (on a guitar made from the flesh and bones of virgins, no less), Satan still can't manage to play the EpicRiff from [[Music/NeilYoung "Cinnamon Girl"]] without screwing up.
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107* One of the earliest examples of this trope, there is a legend (embellished by Madame Blavatsky) that violinist Giuseppe Tartini wrote the famous "Devil's Trill" after being inspired by a [[DealWithTheDevil deal he made with Satan]] in a dream the previous night. Violinists that have tried playing the Devil's Trill themselves would not be surprised if this turned out to be true, as it is ''extremely'' difficult to pull off.
108* Music/RobertJohnson has written "Cross Road Blues", "Me and the Devil Blues" and "Hellhound on My Trail" to capitalize on the persistent rumor that he made a DealWithTheDevil to become a talented guitarist. What gives this legend weight are the facts that his life is ShroudedInMyth, that he went from a terrible guitarist to one of the greatest in history in a very short time frame and that he was the first victim of the infamous "27 curse."
109* Mephistopheles rocks in the opera ''Music/BeethovensLastNight''.
110* Leslie Fish composed Chickasaw Mountain in homage to Phil Ochs, suggesting that he'd made a deal for his talent.
111* Pre-rock example: Music/IrvingBerlin's song "Pack Up Your Sins" suggests that "all the nice people" are having AHellOfATime down there dancing to {{Satan}}'s music, i.e. {{jazz}}.
112* Charlie Daniels' song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" is one of the straightest examples, except that it's not rock guitar, but country fiddle playing. It nevertheless rocks, ''hard''. To boot, the Devil's fiddle solo is accompanied by Rock and Roll music, while Charlie's solo is accompanied by folk music and Bluegrass.
113** Expanded on in the sequel, "The Devil Comes Back to Georgia". Features more modern Country Rock from Music/TravisTritt, and "narration" by the late, great Music/JohnnyCash. Instead of it being clear the devil lost, the musical duel plays out the song with no resolution.
114** The Adam Ezra Group adapted Daniels' song into "The Devil Came Up to Boston", which not only plays up every urban HollywoodNewEngland stereotype imaginable, but is a subversion in that it makes the Devil [[TheDevilIsALoser significantly less impressive]]; instead of a golden fiddle like the original, he tempts a young man into a fiddling contest with a [[ComicallySmallBribe lotto scratchcard and a pack of cigarettes]]... and he still loses.
115* The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion frequently point out that they are ''not'' in the service of the devil. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial No one has ever accused them of such]], but [[RuleOfCool it sure makes for good lyrics]].
116* ''Music/TenaciousD'''s song "Tribute" they are able to drive away the Shining Demon by playing the best song in the world.
117* This trope is the '''''very foundation''''' of BlackMetal. In fact, there are some bands whose members are genuinely theistic Satanists, like Music/{{Gorgoroth}} and Music/DeathspellOmega.
118* Finnish heavy metal band ''Music/{{Lordi}}'' have basically made a career out of this, with such songs as ''The Devil is a Loser'' and ''Hard Rock Hallelujah''.
119** Or averted or even inverted it. Sure, Mr. Lordi looks demonic, but the actual devil is a loser (and his bitch).
120* [[{{Music/Gwar}} GWAR]] plays with this trope to hell and back (no pun intended). While they look nothing short of demonic, their backstory is that, after they were banished to Earth from outer space, they ''invented'' music by stretching dinosaur gizzards across the Grand Canyon to use as a makeshift guitar. They also killed an expy of Satan after being sent to Hell, along with the "Anti-Anti-Christ".
121* Orange Goblin has "You're Not The One (Who Can Save Rock & Roll)". A guitar player wants to save rock and roll, but the Devil tells him he can't because he doesn't have the blues. A decade later the guitar player's burned out and the Devil offers to give him the blues in exchange for his soul. He accepts, and becomes a rock and roll superstar, "singing the blues cos [he] ain't got no soul".
122%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9R3_cS6jsk Pretty much]] any Music/{{Slayer}} song.
123%%* the power metal band Domine offers us the [[HeavyMithril Elric version]], with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXFLb9XBVIQ Arioch the chaos star]], feeding on screams, smashing your dreams, casting your souls into the deepest hell...
124* Discussed by Larry Norman, one of the pioneers of ChristianRock, who wrote [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWh8-FPelHU "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?"]]
125* The Music/KaizersOrchestra song "Begravelsespolka" (Burial Polka) is, according to AllThereInTheManual, sung by the devil. He is represented in the music video as a ManOfWealthAndTaste with a torch and bowler hat, played by the vocalist.
126%%* Music/JohnZorn's album "Asmodeus: Book of Angels Volume 7" (2007) is a literal example.
127* Mephistopheles is a character in Music/{{Avantasia}}'s RockOpera ''The Wicked Trilogy''. He's the villain, but he sure does [[Music/{{Jorn}} rock hard]].
128* [[{{Music/Gorillaz}} Gorillaz]]:
129** Their drummer Russell Hobbs tried to get back on his feet after being exorcised by trying to make his magnum opus: ''The Seventh Heaven Hip-Hop and Harmony Album.'' Somewhere along the line it was possessed by demons and got warped into what Russell describes as a "wonky David Koresh tape" so tainted by evil that it made ''ectoplasm'' leak out of the speakers.
130** The band's bassist and founder, Murdoc Niccals, is a dedicated Satanist (Born on [[NumberOfTheBeast June 6th, 1966, might we add]]) that signed a deal with Beelzebub to ensure that the band was a success. Apparently the price of this contract was having everything bad that happened to the band be the result of Murdoc's selfish, soulless, satanic and downright ''stupid'' actions.
131%% * In Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival's "Down On The Corner", the kazoo player for the band Willy and the Poor Boys is mentioned to be the devil himself - [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight oddly offhandedly.]] — I commented this out because it’s just wrong. The line is that Willy “doubles on kazoo”, not “devil’s on kazoo”. The lyrics even say that there are four kids in the band; the devil would be number five.
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135* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'':
136** In several editions, one of the scenarios included in the main book is about a prohibition-era New Orleans jazz musician who's been gifted a strange trumpet by (of course) Nyarlathotep. [[ArtifactOfDoom Said trumpet's music can bring back the dead as violent zombies]].
137** In the adventure "The Evil Stars", the leader of a rock band turns out to be a worshipper of Hastur.
138** ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' has Charnel Dreams, the house band for NYC's Club Apocalypse. The band's lead singer/guitarist is a sorcerer, assassin, and worshiper of Nyarlathotep. The rest of the band either also worships dark gods or is willing to go along for the fame.
139* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Music is always being played in Malfeas, the Demon City, mostly as a matter of survival. [[GeniusLoci Malfeas]] loves music and dance, both as participant and audience, to the point where it's the only thing that can calm his UnstoppableRage, but it also has the benefit of warding away [[OmnicidalManiac Adorjan, the Silent Wind]], who kills everything she touches but is repelled by noise. Note, however, that Malfeas has very high standards, and anyone who performs poorly can expect to be [[DisproportionateRetribution crushed, incinerated, infected with a horrific illness, or]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill trapped in horrific agony for a thousand years]].
140* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': An official series of campaigns, the Revelations Cycle, starts with Furfur, a minor demon, trying to get himself promoted to Demon Prince of Rock and Roll by performing a song intended to summon Lucifer -- the song needs to be sung ten million times to work, so Furfur records himself singing it, tricks a rock band into performing it, and dubs his own voice over the radio broadcast. Lucifer grants his wish, but on a whim makes Furfur the Demon Prince of Hardcore instead.
141* ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'': ''Grimoire of Grimoires'' has a band composed of varying flavors of Satanist (who are generally no more evil than most mages). Their entry has an album that is more or less deliberately invoking this trope, including back-masked occult secrets [[spoiler:combined with a spell that influences anyone listening to the record backward to rebel against authority]].
142* ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'': While he isn't the devil, the Chaos God Slaanesh granted his followers weaponised guitars, until those were changed into the sonic blasters of today. Why? SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll of course.
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146* ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'': The Spooky Mormon Hell Dream sequence includes the Devil playing a HeavyMetal guitar solo.
147* ''Theatre/TheDevil'': X-Black (the devil) has a much stronger rock sound to his music than X-White (the angel). Walpurgis Night is, the most of it, even though X-White sings a lot of it, it's X-Black's event.
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151* ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'': One of the demonic creatures that can be encountered in the castle is a demonic rock musician called Tamako-Death who has a flame-shooting electric guitar that she shreds on, replacing the background music until she's defeated.
152* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'': Emperor Doviculus [[OurDemonsAreDifferent isn't quite Satan]], but he's [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils a good enough substitute]], and he rocks harder than anyone else with his [[AwesomeButImpractical quadruple-headed guitar]].
153* ''VideoGame/TheConduit'': Played with by Fang Jorgenson, host of the "Fang Bang Metal" radio show. He starts off as a stereotypical heavy metal DJ, but as the game's AlienInvasion proceeds, he interprets it with unrestrained glee as a demonic uprising.
154-->"So it comes down to this, the attacks are not done by terrorists after all. They are demons here to take the world for the Lightbringer! The Bug has plagued the masses. Demons are attackin' on our streets. Death seems to be at every turn. We may live to see the end of days!"
155* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' gives us Lord Raptor, a metal rocker who wrote occult text into his songs. At his final concert, he killed his audience and himself, and a demon lord was impressed enough to grant him undeath.
156* ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'': The BigBad, Daddy Dearest, is a demon who is stated to be an ex-rock star. His wife, Mommy Mearest, is a demonic [[EvilDiva pop star]] instead.
157* ''VideoGame/GuitarHeroIIILegendsOfRock'': The final stage is a rock-off against a demon who may or may not be ''the'' Devil [[spoiler:but is your manager, {{Lou|isCypher}}]], with your band's souls on the line. Set to a rock cover of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", no less. (Charlie Daniels thinks this use of his song is a perversion of it -- if only because the game gives the Devil the possibility to win, when the point of the song is to state that TheDevilIsALoser -- and finds ''Guitar Hero 3''[='s=] content for Lou's Inferno to be shocking and inappropriate.)
158* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'': An optional side quest involves finding appropriate music to perform before Satan. "Appropriate music" is, naturally, HeavyMetal.
159-->"Oh, evil Satan\
160oscillate my metallic\
161sonatas live. Ho!"
162* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'': The trailer for the mod ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n0vmCqv5yo Lute Hero]]'' is presented not by [[{{Satan}}the Lord of Darkness]] himself, but [[TheGrimReaper Death]] fills his role instead. In the sequence where the Lute Hero system was implemented in ''VideoGame/DarkWaters'', you do end up visiting Hell at one point, where you meet a character who claims to be Satan's prepubescent daughter and who is the only divine figure who doesn't complain about how horrible your music is.
163* ''VideoGame/TotalDistortion'': One of the late-game locations is called "Hell's Garage", which is a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin literal garage surrounded by fire]]. Inside is a set of amps, some useful items, and a satanic-looking [[Platform/AppleMacintosh Macintosh]] with very valuable rock songs and video clips you can download after beating a HackingMinigame. Subverted in that Satan himself never makes an appearance, though.
164* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'': In the bonus ending of the expansion pack ''The Frozen Throne'', Arthas [[spoiler:the fallen prince and newly-crowned Lich King]] rocks out to [[Music/Level80EliteTaurenChieftain L80ETC's]] "Power of the Horde".
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168* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': A very ''literal'' example. Asmodeus, the lord of the sin of Lust, is unamused with Moxxie singing his heartfelt love song to Millie in his own club, upstaging the poor imp with a ''bombastic'' cabaret number.
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172* ''Webcomic/{{Adventurers}}'': The electric guitar is the instrument of "dark musical arts". The villain the Axe plays it.
173%%* ''Webcomic/DevilBear'': Bearalzebub does this when challenged to a music duel by some souls trying to get out of their DealWithTheDevil.%%Does what?
174%%* ''Webcomic/{{Devoto}}: Music in Hell'' revolves around a pianist's DealWithTheDevil.
175* ''[[http://www.metalstorm.ee/comics/view_all.php?series_id=1 Headbanged]]'': Inverted and exaggerated. Jesus plays the drums, is a huge fan of black metal, and is apparently friends with Gaahl, an (in)famous black metal musician. Satan, however, hates metal and prefers easy listening -- pop at the heaviest.
176* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'': In an unusual take on this trope, the awesomeness of rock and metal is pretty much the only point that Jesus and Satan agree on.
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180* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': One episode ends with a guy proving he went to Hell because he came back with a guitar with a goat skull on it.
181* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': The Robot Devil loves music of all kinds.
182* ''WesternAnimation/GodTheDevilAndBob'': The Devil is asked about this, and says he's more of a Music/BurtBacharach (note: jazz-pop) type.
183* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'': Despite being the AntiAntiChrist, Beezy is apparently quite good at playing an ''invisible'' rock guitar.
184* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittleBops", TheBigBadWolf finally learns how to play a hot jazz trumpet when he literally gets himself blown to "the other place", and the moral is pronounced as "You gotta get hot to play real cool."
185* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' explored that concept: When Dethklok are forced to sell their souls to the Blues Devil for blues fame, they end up [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu negotiating the contract]] so that he would only get a $5 gift card for Hot Topic (plus he would even have to give ''them'' part of ''his'' soul). He understandably does not take the deal. Later, they end up destroying his car during a performance (having summoned a tornado with their music). Of course, the supernatural being who is the most interested in the band's music [[WeirdnessMagnet (and the accompanying weirdness)]] may be [[EldritchAbomination significantly worse]] than the Devil...
186* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': In "[[Recap/ReBootS1E11TalentNight Talent Night]]", Megabyte rocks the hell out, and then has a guitar duel with Bob. This scene wouldn't look too out of place in ''VideoGame/GuitarHero''--and keep in mind, [[OlderThanTheyThink this show predates]] ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' [[OlderThanTheyThink by about a decade]].
187* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
188** In an episode of where Bart goes to Hell in a near-death experience, the Devil amicably advises him, upon leaving, to "lie, cheat, steal, and listen to heavy metal music!"
189--->'''Bart:''' Everyone knows all the best bands are affiliated with Satan.
190** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E14TalesFromThePublicDomain Tales from the Public Domain]]": The "Odyssey" segment uses this for a punchline. Odysseus (Homer) learns that he and his crew must cross the river Styx. They get there and find the hordes of the undead writhing and rocking to (what else!) Music/{{Styx}}'s "Lady". Odysseus moans:
191--->'''Homer:''' Oh, no, this really ''is'' Hell!
192* ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'': "Mephistopheles Traveled Below to a Southern State Whose Motto is Wisdom, Justice and Moderation" features the Squid Devil teaching Rusty how to play guitar, and this version of Beelzebub can rock pretty hard. He plays a song called "Hoofprints", which features the following line: "[[ToThePain As I ram your carcass through an impossibly small hole into a sea of flaming hot human feces, when you can't draw a breath, yet your lungs are filled ]][[RhymingWithItself with that same flaming hot human feces"]]. Rusty and Early also gain incredible guitar playing abilities (Early plays so fast the strings turn white hot), at the cost of sucking the town into hell and both of them turning into horrific demons.
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196* And [[http://www.nachtkabarett.com/marilynmansonshirtspostersandmerchandise#KillGod this]] Music/MarilynManson shirt.
197-->Warning: the music of Marilyn Manson contains messages that will\
198'''KILL GOD'''\
199in your impressionable teenage minds. As a result, you could be convinced to\
200'''KILL YOUR MOM & DAD'''\
201and eventually, in an act of hopeless 'rock and roll' behavior, you will\
202'''KILL YOURSELF.'''\
203Please burn your records while there's still hope.
204* Subverted by an old ''Magazine/WeeklyWorldNews'' article, which claimed that the Devil has switched to GangstaRap as his personal genre because he felt that rock music nowadays was for pussies.
205* There was a documentary about "the evils of rock and roll" called ''Hell's Bells'', which claimed that rock musicians are possessed by the Devil when they write and/or perform their songs. There was a sequel, released in 2001, titled ''Hell's Bells 2'', which suggested that many rock bands promoted [=LaVeyan=] Satanism through their general attitude, even though most of the bands they described probably had little to no actual knowledge of [=LaVey=][[note]]the documentary seemed to confuse anti-conformity with anti-religion[[/note]].
206* Creator/BillHicks had a routine on this trope, called "play from your heart". Basically he claimed that if the choice was between rock and the Devil and going to Heaven and listening to Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock, he'd pick the Devil.
207* ''Varg Vikernes'' criticizes this trope on his website. He argues that BlackMetal is not, nor can ever have been Satanic, because "Satanism", as it were, has never existed. Every recorded case of Satanism or Devil Worship before modern times has actually been genuine Pagan practices which have been demonized as "Satanism" by the Church.
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