Peacock's new series Hysteria! will follow a high school heavy metal band's attempt to achieve fame by capitalizing on the satanic panic, only for actual murders to start happening.

Satanic panic still exists in the U.S. In July, organizers of the Tennessee Metal Devastation Music Festival faced with the wrath of local residents who opposed the music they planned to bring there.

A TV series about 1980s thrash metal and the Satanic-panic insanity it begat should, by definition, be a fast, furious, and funny affair. Yet Hysteria! is so slow and distended that it proves an ...

Set in the 1980s, Hysteria! revolves around the Satanic Panic of the era as a high-school heavy metal band gets more than they bargained for. “Hysteria! is about both sides of that generational ...