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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
Entertainment
Paul Brannigan

“You’ll see a lot of hoods up and masks on and fire ceremonies”: some lad from Boyzone thinks that modern musicians are carrying out live Satanic rituals at shows

Shane Lynch and Taylor Swift.

Once upon a time, some devout, evangelical Christians viewed high profile heavy metal artists as slaves of The One With Horns, believing everyone from Ozzy Osbourne and Iron Maiden, to AC/DC and Kiss, to be corrupting innocent minds with their filthy Devil's Music. Now, however, it seems that it's the world's biggest pop stars who are under suspicion of weaving dark magic to ensnare souls for Satan to chow down upon in Hell. Who knew?

Shane Lynch knows.

In the unlikely event of any readers failing to recognise the name of the former Boyzone stool-botherer, Lynch is the tattooed fella whose sisters represent fifty per cent of decidedly non-Satanic Irish pop act B*Witched. In the wake of reconnecting with Jesus Christ, God the Father and The Holy Ghost in 2003, Mr Lynch chose to extricate himself from the pop world, and now that he's on the outside, he has 20/20 vision on the darkness at its core, which - blessed be! - he has chosen to expose via sex-and-scandal-heavy Irish tabloid newspaper The Sunday World.

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