Two of the three men convicted as teens in the grisly 1995 death-metal-inspired murder of a 15-year-old San Luis Obispo County girl, including the self-proclaimed ringleader, are out of prison, according to multiple media reports.

The unimaginable violence unfolded in July that year when Elyse Pahler snuck out of her family’s Arroyo Grande home on an invitation from Jacob Delashmutt, then 17, to smoke some weed in the woods.

Pahler and Delashmutt were joined by Royce Casey, also 17, and then 15-year-old Joseph Fiorella, according to the San Luis Obispo Tribune.

The three boys had their own death metal band called Hatred, with one of their favorite groups being Slayer, a thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California famous for dark, occult-laced lyrics, including one song about sacr

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