well, given that my song of the day is the remix of this i did for the souls that create back in '98, it is obvious that this is where i need to make my post for the day.
it's really incredibly ironic that the military picked an anti-exxon track to torture guantanamo inmates with, as though they're fucking gloating or something. "we are the evil empire, we kill and maim with impunity and don't you fucking forget it.". it's enraging....
666alikat
i dont think anyone could consider listening to this torture. that just doesnt seem reasonable. It seems more reasonable that some journo saw the name and thought "yeah thats weird enough to scare old people and anger idiot youths"
deathtokoalas
yeah, i have to admit i was a little skeptical. apparently, the band was told they used the song "according to an inside source" (i'm paraphrasing). i suspect the invoice they sent them was a pr/awareness thing.
the thing is that the torture is mostly about the volume, and they could have used just about anything to do that, so the source is largely irrelevant.
Jesse Waters-Wolfe
It was a heavily edited, distorted version of the song.
Tami Smith
“As it turned out, the soundtrack being played at a deafening volume was by the band Skinny Puppy. It bothered me greatly that they would use this music. Skinny Puppy was something that I always listened to growing up. I have memories of my life that I have assimilated to memories of the music of Skinny Puppy. Skinny Puppy has been the soundtrack to my life! So to hear something that was so personal to be used as a form of torture, that really hit home. That made it something that I was no longer able to turn a blind eye to. I really focused on it and it really bothered me.” -Terry Holdbrooks former guard
