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James Hetfield made a statement that he was happy for Metallica music to be used for torture in Guantanamo bay.
Source?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-40090809
Metallica singer James Hetfield has said he is proud that his music is used against enemies of the US
Metallica’s Enter Sandman had became a particular favourite at the height of the War on Terror, when US interrogators admitted using music to break the resistance of captives in Iraq. The goal was to deprive them of sleep and offend their cultural sensibilities.
Unco-operative prisoners were exposed to children’s TV music from Sesame Street, and the purple singing dinosaur Barney.
Sergeant Mark Hadsell of the Psychological Operations Company (Psy Ops) told Newsweek magazine: "These people haven’t heard heavy metal. They can’t take it.
“If you play it for 24 hours, your brain and body functions start to slide, your train of thought slows down and your will is broken. That’s when we come in and talk to them.”
The fuck?
Oh, are you just now learning that America has been the bad guys pretty much since the beginning?
Its too bad both James and Dave are both first class d-bags. At least James tries to hide it
It’s insane how hard of a 180 Dave pulled. Dude went from being an anarchist icon to hanging out with Alex Jones.
Money does awful things to people…
I love Megadeth, hate that Dave became a Trump supporting, anti vax, conspiracy nutjob.
I could have gone without knowing this =(
Will never understand why becoming religious often means flushing ones brain down the toilet…
Because flushing your brain down the toilet is a prerequisite
He became super religious, evangelical, and of course that led him on the road to right wing stupidity.
and one of them was outed as a nonce recently
A nonce like the mathematical extra used in cryptography?
My metal head friend said that Metallica became a pop band when they released the black album.
Your metalhead friend was correct. I personally think that that “Metallica” died with Cliff Burton. No hate to Jason Newstead, but Cliff was the one in the band with musical integrity.
Justice was really important to me. It was the first album I ever loved at the age of eight. It introduced me to the rest of their catalogue and, of course, fell in love with Burton and bass guitar. Too bad they did Newstead dirty on that album. But Justice sparked some political consciousness in me. And musically, I think they stretched as far as they could. With Burton, it would have been farther, but still farther than those three had stretched before. The same is not true for the black album.
I agree completely. There are versions of Justice that can be found online where the bass is mixed back in, and I highly recommend them. Newstead put in work on that album.
Yeha I think they’re called “And justice for Bass” or “And Justice for Jason”
Love Metallica’s first few albums but honestly fuck them and what they’ve become. Went from a really solid thrash band to a million-dollar business with subpar dad rock and shitty titles like Don’t Tread on Me. They go against everything thrash metal (and metal in general) was supposed to be.
And the direction Megadeth went, while not as bad, is still rlly disappointing. Dave could’ve been one of the coolest figures in metal but instead he became a right-wing conservative.
Crossover Thrash FTW
I didn’t really listen to them but have always associated them with being fragile babies. In the early file sharing era, other bands were like, “I dropped an entire album as a free download, fuck the system.” Meanwhile Metallica was whining and sobbing about college kids on Napster stealing their pennies.
System of a Down literally named an album “Steal This Album” and made the CD art look like a burnt CD with sharpie label.
It’s one of the few albums I later purchased. Never would have gotten that into soad without piracy, other than their singles that most people from that era would know.
The meme was too young to remember …And Justice for All?
I’ve met people, REAL people, who think the black album is their first.
Fair assumption to make that a early self-titled album would be the first one. I wouldn’t know the order of their albums because I don’t care enough
That’s true. I was implying they haven’t heard of the first four - don’t even know they exist. Not so much that they had them out of order.
A band I like called colour haze has its first self titled album as the 6th or 8th. I forget.
Metallica is the reason that P2P file sharing is almost impossible post-Web 2.0. There’s an argument to be made that someone else would’ve taken Napster to court if Metallica didn’t, but they did, and the internet has been shit ever since. Fuck them and their friends who think their garbage variety of radio-friendly variety of Beer Metal is anything worth listening to
Fuck Metallica for this, but their music lyrics are shit too. Megadeth is a million times better.
Megadeth is a wonderful band, and even their best albums have some downright terrible lyrics.
I mean, Psychotron is an excellent song, but there’s no defending the lyrics.
I mean… Soulseek is still going strong.
This is the weirdest reasoning I’ve heard for the internet being sterile
The internet entered its sandman era post Metallica lawsuit
laughs in still using soulseek in 2024
P2p is impossible? Wonder where all the music got into BitTorrent then.
Right? The person you replied to seems maybe unaware that P2P filesharing is doing better than ever
It was bad for like, a few months when Napster shut down. Then BOOM! Morpheus, Kazaa, Limewire, BearShare, Soulseek, Usenet, then the magical world of torrents! (RIP what.cd)
Yarr, matey!
The high seas have never been more welcoming, me hearty!
Ye just need to navigate by the starrs!
