Oh shit, I actually remember the stuff about hard rock/metal as torture. A lot of bands spoke out against it. A few were in favour of it, like “if the military is using our music to support our troops, fuck yeah” and while that statement in and of itself isn’t that bad, it’s still on the wrong side of sus. So, yeah. Not a big fan.

I seem to remember Disturbed was against that sort of thing. Then again, their singer is very pro-Israel (his grandfather is from there; the whole band is from Chicago though) and he’s said things like “I would fuck Britney Spears in the ass, so they (pop stars) are good for something.” Oh shit, as I recall he prefaced that by saying “in the words of my boy Dave from Drowning Pool” so that’s kind of fucked up. I forget what concert/live video it was but it wasn’t some bootleg thing as I recall, I think it was something at least on YouTube. Then again, they were also one of the bands that would stop the show if someone fell down in the mosh pit (though, so do a lot of metal bands).

Fuck, I didn’t know that about Drowning Pool or maybe I just forgot about it. Obviously Skinny Puppy had the right response to their music being used at Gitmo.