Kill the noise: music used to torture terrorists
December 15th, 2008 by Rodney Carmichael in Music news
Dr. Dre, AC/DC, the Bee Gees, and the big, purple annoyance known as Barney are just some of the acts whose music is used by the Feds to torture terrorism suspects, according to a story in yesterday’s AJC.
Other acts include Drowning Pool, Eminem, Queen, Metallica, and Nine Inch Nails. Perhaps Metallica co-founder James Hetfield sums it up best:
“We’ve been punishing our parents, our wives, our loved ones with this music forever. Why should the Iraqis be any different?
Read “Music used as torture device.”
December 18th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
A while back, the BBC reported that US forces were using adult contemporaneous “Babylon” as torture music.