Dio, Gene and Geezer. To reach a confident conclusion on who invented music's devil horns, however, one must weed through the list of artists attached as its inventor over the years.

In metal folklore, ... Simmons claimed, in his 2002 autobiography Kiss and Make-up, to have done the deed and invented the Devil’s horn symbol. Expert Steve Appleford, ...

Ronnie James Dio, Gene Simmons, and Jinx Dawson all lay claim to it. AXS TV's series Music's Greatest Mysteries will explore the age-old question of who really invented the "horns" gesture in rock ...

In 2017, when KISS frontman Gene Simmons decided to attempt to trademark the devil horns, it sparked a big debate online, as it does every few years, as to who actually invented the gesture, with ...

On June 9, 2017, he decided to trademark the “devil horns” hand gesture as his own invention. In his application, he claimed that he invented the hand movement back in 1974.

The horns, the most metal of hand gestures, have a tangled history. In Buddhism they represent the expulsion of demons, while in certain Latin countries they signify something far ruder. In simple ...

Never mind that the entire world — as well as the widow of the guy who actually invented the devil’s horns hand sign — called Gene Simmons the scumbag he is for attempting to trademark the much ...

Hardcore metal fans liken the symbol to resembling “devil horns,” while another hand symbol is used by the Japanese group Babymetal; theirs is meant to invoke and mimic their personal deity ...

Ronnie James Dio, who died yesterday, left behind a huge musical legacy between singing with Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio. But in reading the obits, we thought about another of Dio's ...