Torture Music Comes Under Criticism
“Even my 12-year-old nephew would choose something a little more unexpected than Nine Inch Nails,” scoffs a New York critic in today’s Onion.
Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Eminem and more have been used for years now to torment prisoners at the world-famous Guantanamo Bay prison but music critics are now saying that the choices lack imagination, says The Onion.
“‘Enter Sandman,’ from Metallica’s 1991 self-titled album? Really?!” says New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones. “Not to say there isn’t some classic stuff on the torture playlist, but even my 12-year-old nephew would choose something a little more unexpected than Nine Inch Nails to shatter an utterly demoralized man’s already tenuous grip on reality. If I were handcuffed to a chair with something as tired as Tupac’s ‘Keep Ya Head Up’ blasting in my face, I’d probably pass out from boredom, despite the painful sleep deprivation stress positions.”
If you were to torture a room full of people you had a problem with, what would you go with? Imagine hearing this over and over again. You’d do anything to get away from it, wouldn’t you?





Limb by Limb over and over
I would blare Cannibal Corpse as loud as humanly possible in the haji scums ears.
hows this for a tourture song??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow
Surely keyboard cat on loop
brokencyde…. over and over and over and over and over and over, you get the idea..
Any modern ‘rap’ or R’n'B shite would break me instantly.
most people like metal so blasting that at them wont affect them you wanna make them listen to crazy frog all day
Video Phone, anyone? That new song by Beyonce and Lady Gaga. I know if I were stuck in a room with that on repeat, I may just go insane in a matter of minutes. D;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JblFx1aXpeU&feature=related has to be this
insane clown pose….tht is all
The issue is more the conditions in which it is played rather than what is played
It’d have to be ANYTHING by Beyonce.
If I was stuck in a room with that whiny shite on all the time, I would kill myself so fast…
Least in hell, the Devil’s got all the best tunes, right?
Anything by Psyopus or The Dillinger Escape Plan on repeat all day should do the trick.
That is a great torture song : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2q6hs_moonkana-chocolat_creation !! So annoying !!!
Cannibal Corpse would drive me fucking insane or Insane Clown Posse… or Paramore…
The chorus from that Hanson song, MMMBOP, on repeat.
How about some slayer… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
this for sure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l12Csc_lW0Q
The Fish Head song and video is enough to break even the hardest person!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTpUVAcvWfU
Would have to be some really old napalm death, the really obnoxious shit, or cattle decapitation.
Yup, some grindcore on repeat 24/7 should break even the hardest of men!!!
AAAAAAAAARRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH my ears i couldnt stand any more hillary duff
also if they played enter sandman over n over in prison i think id have to go kill a man and get life in prison lol
Glen, where the fuck did you find that shit?? It’s repulsive!!
what about this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFzyYYZsxGc
i could honestly say i would try eat my own heart out to make it stop if this was blasted at me 24/7
Two words… …..Aphex Twin
or maybe this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3dPXxPGbmM
nothing worse than being sleep deprived, forced to listen to shit music and hungry too.
How could you torture someone with music, any type of music would be more than welcome if i was locked up with nothing to do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee32hCUZ8lU
I would hang myself if I had to listen this over and over and over again.
i’d heard somewhere that Deicide’s “Fuck Your God” had been used, thats somewhat more fitting
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/19/usa.guantanamo (paragraph 3 is where its mentioned)
in that article they also mention they used the Barney theme tune, y’know, the giant purple dinosaur
that sounds like it could never be topped in terms of torture
if not Behemoth frontman Nergal’s girlfriend Doda might make a close second
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it71O2KupEE
Personally, this song got stuck in my head for the best part of a month once and I would literally sit and hum it all day everyday, so perhaps they should loop this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXGhvoekY44
Bjork and Enya would surely do the trick?
Most stuff, including crap I despise I’d probably torture the guards by constantly happily singing along but I doubt anyone could handle the back catalogue of those 2 all day, every day.
I don’t want to go too Revolver Ocelot and think about torture too much but surely you don’t go for inoffensive hip-hop or pop because it’s simply boring, not scary or unnerving…boring. Worse still, it could be catchy.
Aphex Twin is on the right track or some other weird noisecore electronic stuff, even postmodern avant-garde composers.
Or if they were really serious they’d pipe in the sounds of an abbatoir. I have officially thought about this too much.
Hmm.. On second thought, if anyone’s seen the original “Funny Games” film, and have heard the theme, they’ll know that that being on repeat will drive anyone insane…
…If not, allow me to introduce McRoll. They have to show the vid too mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssh71hePR8Q
Serj Tankian’s ‘Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition’ would probably grid someone down if played repeatedly at high volumes.
I also recomed playing ANY track where someone has gone through before hand and added half second pauses at the end of every bar…Try it, it hurts!
Just saying, you do know this is from The Onion?
Forget all of the above. Just check this out !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5C6X9vOEkU
well i nearly killed 2 of my mates by playing dying fetus ‘war of attrition’ in the car one day, and they are both rockers, so imagine what it could do to a bunch of dirka dirka types?!
the answer is simple. Merzbow.
it wud av 2 start wit angel of death,then mayb warbringer total war,& evile first blood.that shud make them cry a little!
Strapping Young Lad…Satan’s Ice Cream Truck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-m8DoWGXDI
you guys know that the ‘torture’ part implies that it’s a tiny bit louder than your car stereo, right? Like, ear-splitting-vomit-inducing-intolerable-pain loud? You could play anything and even you hardened metal heads (note: irony. you’re all fags) would be in tears in minutes.
chloe and balenciaga handbag
http://www.lookhandbag.com
Future Breed Machine is pretty torturous.
Raging Speedhorn
chloe and gucci hermes handbag
http://www.lookhandbag.com
Here’s an idea: Why not make them listen to some Justin Bieber? I mean, I can’t stand listing to Justin Bieber, even for 1 second… so I’d most likely swallow a fork or something and choke myself to death by the time it’s been going on for an hour or so. But if they want to be really effective in torture, they gotta change it up and add some more worthless R & B artists, but if I had to listen Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, etc. well, awsome!!! If they want torture music, just give ‘em some putrid, disgusting, R & B. That’s real torture!
this would have to be the most annoying song ever created. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaG54NJ8kcQ
you all do know that this is from The Onion, a Satirical American Newspaper, right?
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nations_music_snobs_protest
This is the original story. Really, Metal Hammer. You FELL for this!??!
Surfin Bird by the Trashmen, or Over and Over by Hot Chip definitely
WELL EVERYBODYS HEARD ABOUT THE WORD!
Abba……….. even thinking about it has me reaching for the lovely bottles under the sink
Agadoo or the Birdy song.
“Whats the word?….”
Anyways, you want torture? One second of Madina Lake (who FUCKING SUCK might i add) on t.v makes me want to cut my ears with the nearest thing i can find. Go ahead. I dare you all to listen to that shite…..
Reporting the Onion? *Facepalm*
I’m sure everyone knows that the bird is equal to or greater than the word by now
OI HAMMER!!!!
IMAGINE THIS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1kqF56XUvc
A call to prayer on a never-ending loop would soon have me gibbering but perhaps not appropriate for the task in Guantanamo.
you’ve got to love the irony of someone called ‘dickmouth’ coming on here and calling us metalheads ‘fags’. stick to your scissor sisters album u bell end, that would be enough to torture anyone
Got me there, I obviously chose this alias because well, frankly I can’t get enough of chugging cock. Right now i’m sucking dick to the new GAZA, which is a fuck ton more metal than some pre-teen in flames shit. Make sure you have credibility in order to bite back with next time, chump.
Never gunna give you up…
i don’t have credibility cos i’m an in flames fan? so the 1500 metal albums i own must make me a right douchebag! dickmouth get a life, this was a post about torturing terror suspects and u decided to call us metalheads fags, which makes u a complete fucking moron. take that credibility and stick it up your arse!
My original post was more concerned with the ridiculous attitude that most of the posters on this site have that they are somehow musicially superior to others because the music they like it loud and angry. There’s good and bad in all genres and I noticed an alarming amount of people dissing good pop music (justin timberlake, beyonce) and holding it up to terrible metal music (bullet for my valentine, in flames). That’s fucked because there are pop artists that whether you like it or not, are projecting their art in a way that eclipses their peers and for that reason they’re the top of their game. I would not say the same for shitty angst metal that most of you listen to. Are you gonna tell me Trivium is working in the same spectrum as Neurosis? Does Five finger death punch really muster as much arousal as pig destroyer? ARE YOU TELLING ME KILLSWITCH EN-FUCKING-GAGE MAKES HIGH ART ON THE SAME FUCKING LEVEL AS CONVERGE???
to summarise, you’re not badass cause you like what is essentially, the heavy music equivalent of the x factor.
i never said i was badass! and what makes u think i dont like neurosis or pig destroyer? this isn’t some competition about who is more metal, my original post said my mates who are rockers couldnt handle listening to dying fetus, which i suggested would annihilate terror suspects.
dickmouth u are the sort of person who gives us metal fans a bad name, yes i like in flames who are in my opinion a great band, thats my choice. i also like everything from napalm death to norah jones!
as for people dissing pop music, u just slagged off x factor, which other people would consider great pop. so we’re all wrong and right at the same time.
but i will say you’re a judgemental prick, even worse than i am! i didnt mention five finger death punch, who i think are fucking awful. u dont know what i listen to bar my username (which was actually a play on alice in chains just so u know)
GROW UP, and i might too!
there is a difference between great pop and car-crash television and tie-in marketing.
you simonin-lames (see how clever that was?), sound like the kind of person who hates having their own close mindedness held up for all to see and by merely name dropping a band (dying etus in this case) you made it quite clear that whilst you said it was not a competition for who is the most metal, what you really meant was “it is a contest and i am winning!!!!!”
the arguement dickmouth put across is not only eloquent, but also a sad reality of heavy music and it’s fans.
but back on topic Merzbow needs to be recognised for his ability to make radio friendly pop tunes that would be the perfect sound track to while away the days on the sandy beaches of guantanamo bay.
and here is the proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGzrL8J0t-c
to the above, touche…
to simon, don’t sweat it bro, I’m not singling you out, I’m merely throwing a cog in the works. I don’t have real life opinions. I’m a ghost of the internet, haunting message boards, holding up mirrors, forcing society to stare itself right in it’s ugly fucking face. Or I’m just bored so I figured I’d see if could heat up some collars. Sad really…
…but then you fell for it.