the band was accused by a california religious group and later the parents music resource center of backmasking satanic messages in their anti-cocaine anthem, "snowblind". james "jy" young has denied this charge during his introduction for "snowblind" when played live. dennis deyoung has denied the accusation as well, joking on the "in the studio with redbeard" program "we had enough trouble to make the music sound right forward." also, young quotes, "if we were going to put some message in our songs, we would have put it so it was in the song forward. not so you would have to buy some $400 tape recorder to hear it."