In medieval times such chords were declared "diabolic" and banned by and from the Church. As a rule (or only?) chords composed of three notes - the musical embodiment of the "Holy Trinity" - were considered as "God´s" according to this doctine . The ban lived on until it bacame ostentatively, ruthlessly broken byLink Wray , the Rebel.
Perfect music, even if the genre was not of his time, for imagining The Shadow sneaking his way across the dark streets of the Big Apple towards the final showdown with the big bad of his latest story!