[4] After their arrest, the duo potentially faced execution after being charged with blasphemy for "writing Satanic music and speaking to foreign radio stations".
Their second album, In Pursuit of Dreams, included tracks entitled "Teh-Hell-Ran" and "I'm Your God Now", words that are considered blasphemous by Iran's hardline Islamic government.
The full charges levelled against the band reportedly included blasphemy; advocating against the system; forming and running an illegal band and record label "in the Satanic metal & rock music style"; writing anti-religious, atheist, political, and anarchistic lyrics; and conducting interviews with "forbidden" foreign radio stations.
[5] As of January 2017, according to Raha Bahreini, Amnesty International's researcher on Iran, no band members were facing execution.
On 9 July 2019, the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran handed Khosravi and Ilkhani a combined sentence of 141⁄2 years in prison for the crime of playing metal.