This article is from last year, but I recently happened upon it. In Guantanamo Bay, people are using various songs as torture, especially Deicide's "Fuck Your God" off "Scars of the Crucifix."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/ju ... guantanamo

And let me get the obvious joke out of the way. Sitting through Deicide's recent efforts has been tortrue.

swineeyedlamb made a post called "Deicide become government gimps" a while back. It can no longer be seen, though. I remember Benton almost seemed to be honoured.

I figured it had been mentioned before, but I couldn't for the life of me find it. I'm pretty sure the article at least features a few quotes from Asheim.

I remember hearing about this a long time ago. I think something like Stalaggh would have produced better results. Black/noise is torture to my ears.

I hope I'm not the only one who put on Fuck Your God while reading this.

I think the truely horrifying thing about this story is the use of the Barney the Dinosaur song, I think that would genuinely drive me insane if that was blasted at me round the clock. ironic how many metalheads voluntarily subject themselves to "torture" like blasting Deicide and enjoy it lol, though I think one song blasted all day at deafening volume would be torturous no matter what your taste in music. I haven't seen the Hetfield quote in this article before, it's pretty disappointing as he comes off like a total moron, though it's not quite as bad as Glen Benton's reaction which IIRC was close to "God bless America!"

also:

"The CIA rendered him to Morocco, where his torturers repeatedly took a razor blade to his penis throughout an 18-month ordeal."
fucking hell

Glenn Benton saying "God bless America" is funny on so many levels.

"Oh God, why? I can't take it, it's... so gimmicky. AHHHH!"

Yeah it is a gimmick but it aint really music, just noise that is very abrasive on the ears. The same can be said for numerous other black/noise acts like Emit. I find these things to hurt my ears too much to listen to now.

Brain Drill would also be another good option for something like this.

damn you have some incredible memory!
I remember the thread existing but couldnt tell you who created it or the title

For a few seconds I pictured how awesome that job would be. Blasting Immolation and shit to prisoners. Then again, there's much more to it that makes it hard to bear.

How many prisoners at that place are religious?

Well, on the plus side it may make middle-eastern people more open to listening to heavy music. However, they'll probably just end up listening to shit like Six Feet Under.

But they probably take it as a negative thing, thus becoming more opposed to heavy music...

Why didn't they use Taghut too, as it contains anti-Islamic lyrical themes..

Next time we have one of those "when did you get into metal?" threads we'll have someone saying "well, I was being tortured by the CIA..."

It is rare that I agree with something a member of Metallica says, but James came off as pretty agreeable here, and maybe even a bit unintentionally humorous.

Probably what most of the people in the army listen to. The kind of stuff you listen to while bringing democracy to the people, yah know?

I heard Anaal Nathrakh also gets used a lot, while transporting prisoners in those cargo containers.

Speak for yourself.

What an out-of-touch thing to say.

But of course they'll go out of their ways to look for extreme music that is specifically against the religions of the prisoners they're torturing, despite the fact that most people wouldn't understand the harsh vocals enough to KNOW that they were being blasphemed to, even if they were not distracted by the fact that they were being tortured.

Pfft. I expected more from you ThrashingMad.

I think that's a triple irony score. On the military's part, not yours.

Stalaggh is good. The vocals are amazing.

It wouldn't be torture to me. I'd be headbanging.

Really, mid-era Deicide is pretty damn bad.

They'd probably waterboard your ass while they're doing it.

Then I would tell them Deicide isn't surf music.

I should request a transfer

If someone wanted to break me all they'd have to do is put me in a room and play I'm N Luv (Wit A Stripper). I would not only tell them what color my mother's underwear is, but I would be in a state of catatonia screaming "make the T-Pain go away!!!" Fuck, I had to listen to that awful shit at work once.

I'm kind of immune to pop music now. I had to here Lil' Wayne's "Lollipop" 3 times a day for 4 months straight. At least once in the morning (someone's phone alarm) and usually other times during the day. This past week when I was in Utah, the chick I was with always had Lady Gaga and whatever else is hip these days on the radio playing. I just went along with it and it didn't phase me at all.

She was looking through my iPod the first night and saw Pestilence - "Is this an electronic band?" She's great, but damn
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Anyway, back on the torture. It makes sense that the majority of the world hates / doesnt' care for death metal, but is such a method really that effective? You can't really call it cruel or unusual like many other methods, but what sort of stress does it put someone other to eventually go crazy by?

Shit, if they made me watch 2 girls 1 cup or something then I get it, I'll tell you the numbers to all the TMs I've ever read.

It's probably just the volume blaring (it's probably very loud) all the time, and I'm sure it deprives you of sleep. They're not just using death metal, anyways.

Guantanamo is filled with Middle-Eastern terror suspects and Al Qaeda wankers. So, most of them...

Can the US please stop pissing on The Universal Deceleration Of Human Rights, and The Geneva Convention, please?

We don't decelerate, we push the pedal to the metal when when push comes to shove. No declarations needed. Bush and Cheney always found loopholes. And we aren't in Geneva.

The fuck is that?

Hey, Lady Gaga is awesome! In my opinion, it'd only be torture if the volume is up so incredibly loud that you start worrying about your eardrums' well-being. And I think there are much easier ways to threaten someone's hearing than that. Sleep deprivation and annoyance/lack of concentration is all I can see it giving.

i want to be tortured in this kind

Isn't music and songs in general outlawed in some of those middle eastern countries? So of course, you can imagine what it's like for someone who's not even accustomed to POP music to think Deicide and other metal bands are just loud, blaring noises with no rhythm or meaning. I have friends and family who think that and they blare rap/country.

I myself would use annoyingly catchy songs from kids shows much like the Barney theme they already use, just that ONE song, very loud (but not so loud as to damage hearing), on loop all day and night... sheesh, I'd almost feel bad for them.

It's a violation of human rights no matter what music is used.
Put your favourite song on infinite repeat, ear-splitting volume, day and night, see if you still think it's not that bad.