Henry

For centuries, the greatest musicians in history have been linked to the same story. A deal made in the dark. A talent no human being should possess. A price paid in full.
This is the story of the Devil in Music.
From Niccolò Paganini — the violinist so impossibly skilled that audiences believed he was guided by a demonic hand — to Robert Johnson, who walked to a Mississippi crossroads at midnight and came back able to play anything. To the Norwegian black metal scene and Mayhem, where the darkness stopped being a performance.
And underneath all of it — two notes. Six semitones apart. A sound so unsettling the medieval church banned it. They called it Diabolus in Musica. The Devil in Music.
This episode asks what actually connects these stories. The answer is stranger than the myth.

What is Henry?

History remembers certain things a certain way. Henry de Berk investigates what gets left out. Long-form documentaries on crime, power, and the stories we tell ourselves about both. Not to shock. Not to sell a theory. But to follow the evidence where it actually leads — and sit honestly with what it doesn't resolve. New episodes on the cases history got wrong, the myths that stuck, and the truth underneath that's usually more unsettling. For people who know the popular version. And want something more honest.