U.S. Military Using Heavy Metal In Their Fight Against The Taliban
The U.S. military has been using heavy metal in their fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan, according the Associated Press. Here's an excerpt of the article:
US special forces have a novel weapon in the fight to expel Taliban from a desolate and war-weary farming community in southern Afghanistan -- heavy metal music.
When insurgents open fire in Marjah, an armoured vehicle wired up to powerful speakers blasts out country, heavy metal and rock music so loudly it can be heard up to two kilometres (one mile) away.
The playlist has been hand-selected to annoy the Taliban, according to one US special forces officer.
"Taliban hate that music," said the sergeant involved in covert psychological operations, or "psy ops", in the area in Helmand province.
In fact, this is not a "novel weapon," as special ops have been using these tactics for years. This part was priceless though:
"How effective the method is in sending the Taliban running for cover is difficult to tell, but local children certainly don't like it -- many of them cover their ears from the onslaught of loud bass guitars and drums."
Read the full article at Associated Press.
Source: UltimateGuitar.com
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Gotta be an adrenaline rush when your in the heat of combat or about to embark on it by pumping up some slayer or some old sepultura....
God bless all of our military...for the most part, they're doing a great job for all the sh!t they have to endure either on foreign soil or america's politics....
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yes i enjoy my goddamned metal very much, thanks....these fvcking cur dog a$$holes do NOT...that is the fvcking point
ANY weapon with the minimum impact to civilian life SHOULD be used against them
these fvcking zealot drones are pieces of human fvcking sh** that want YOU dead
take yer peaced out sermon elsewhere....this is a goddamned war
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And what if the Talibans become metal fans cos of these ops? Then what?
Since Rock'n'Roll is forbidden in those countries, why not just blast Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music? 60mins of guitar feedback should smoke out even the most hardcore terrorist.
...How times change. So the Americans have gone from Wagner (Apocalypse Now) to Metal. If that's called progress, I'm all for it.
I just wonder which bands they're playing?
I know NIN was used for "torture", which is easy to understand as both With Teeth and Year Zero were pretty much... erm, torture.
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nah RT my brother...though good call, i SHOULD watch the 'jacket again
i just don't have the most encompassing for pacifism when it comes to fvcking terrorists
NO fvcking rights or goddamned bleeding heart sympathies...only sheer and utter annihilation, NO FVCKING PRISONERS
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wolf7: i'm pretty sure they used 'the downward spiral', or maybe even 'broken'. and as to ur remark about 'with teeth' and 'year zero', i love those albums, along w/ the albums after that, the instrumental multi-disc album, 'ghosts I-IV' and, the last one, 'the slip'. but, my opinion's a lil bias being a HUGE NIN fan lol
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N0thinghead, you know, you're right. I had a listen to both With Teeth and Year Zero yesterday, and they're both ok albums. I don't like With Teeth that much, but it becomes a pretty awesome album from track 7 onwards. Year Zero has a few terrible tracks, but it also picks up nicely towards the end and the last 3 tracks a great.
BUT, I must say that to my ears there are some MAJOR flaws in quality control on both albums. I wonder what Trent was thinking of when he released "Only" (??!) and there are a couple of total stinkers on Year Zero as well.
By the way, I actually like Ghosts and I still need to spend some time on Slip.
I can admit it; I was wrong and you were right.
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wolf7: lmao!! that's great to hear bro. with teeth was him experimenting even more than he did on the fragile, and year zero was just a pretty creative direction, tho maybe the delivering just didn't do it for u. i absolutely LOVE ghosts and listen to it ALL of the time actually. i've even created a playlist of just the nicer-toned piano songs for when i just wanna mellow out lol along w/ "a warm place", some tracks from the fragile, and the still album too, of course. give the slip a chance. it's a lil less futuristic-y than year zero, but definitely a bit better than with teeth tho. personally, i don't even like the instrumentals on the slip, they suck rlly lol but i love alotta the tracks on there, "demon speed", "discipline", "head down" and my personal fav. would have to be between "1,000,000" and "echoplex". lemme know whatcha think.
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n0thinghead, you're a huge NIN fan, am I right?
Mate, I've got a totally pathetic copy of The Slip, I don't even have a track listing for it, so I need to get a better one.
As for Ghosts, I love it.
My current play list for Ghosts:
1,2,3,6,9,10,11,13,15,17,18 on discI and
1,4,6,7,8,9,10,11,14-18 on DiscII.
I'll get back to you on The Slip.
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yeah bro lol of course i do miss the downward spiral and the fragile days tho =\ but hey, the new art is just as good as the old art, it's just that, new. when i listen to the ghosts album, i like to close my eyes and imagine the surroundings/enviroment/scenerio that inspired each track. try it. it's kool. but i wouldn't recommend it high what-so-ever. i was all alone in my room, in bed and in the dark... i phockin' freaked out bro lol
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