DEICIDE MUSIC USED TO TORTURE PEOPLE. SERIOUSLY.
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 11:37am by Axl Rosenberg
Normally we don’t just cut and paste press releases – there’s already a gajillion other sites that do that, and besides, who gives a fuck – but this one is just too funny not to post:
“DEICIDE SCORES A #1 HIT WITH U.S. TROOPS
Gathered from evidence obtained through various reports, leaked interrogation logs and the accounts of soldiers and detainees, a list of the top 24 songs strategically used on military prisoners in Iraq was recently made public, according to Mother Jones Magazine’s website.
Among a list of such musical luminaries as EMINEM, METALLICA and AC/DC (as well as non-luminary Barney The Dinosaur), was DEICIDE, coming in at number one with the song ‘Fuck Your God’ from 2004’s SCARS OF THE CRUCIFIX.
When word of this info first got to DEICIDE drummer, Steve Asheim,
the only thing he could really say was ‘It’s cool. If we’re upto military standards of audio abuse, it makes me feel like DECIDE’s doing our part for the troops.’ Of course this moment is not the only history that Asheim has with the armed forces. ‘My dad was a marine, as were my uncle and grandfather;’ says the DEICIDE skinsman. ‘I didn’t follow in their footsteps since I was so busy with the band thing, but I’m glad I was eventually able to contribute somehow.’
Some of the tactical circumstances where prisoners may have heard ‘Fuck Your God’ include sleep deprivation and interrogation disorientation. While some may see this information as a shock, other readers of the source article have taken a slightly different view of the situation. Commented one reader of the source article, ‘Honestly, the Barney theme song is more disturbing than DEICIDE’s F**k Your God.’”
Where do we even start with this one? I’m not sure I’d be so quick to take pride in my music being used for actual torture, and since nowhere does it say that Troops listen to these songs for fun, the headline is pretty much a flat-out lie (even more so when you realize that the complete list – which not only includes the aforementioned Barney but also the Meow Mix and Sesame Street theme songs – is ordered semi-randomly, so the fact that Deicide are at the top does not actually make them “#1.”)
But you also have to love Asheim’s idiocy: he didn’t join the marines – a pretty serious fucking committment, I’d imagine – because he “was so busy with the band thing,” but he’s “glad” he could still “contribute somehow.” Yep. Playing drums and being on the front lines during a war are pretty much the same thing, right?
Oh, well. No one ever listened to Deicide for their brains.
-AR
Yes, torture is a laughing matter. Fucking assholes.
Having the military use your music to torture people is one thing.
Being actually proud of it is another.
Actually, sending out a press release to express such, pretty unbelievable.
“If we’re upto military standards of audio abuse, it makes me feel like DEICIDE’s doing our part for the troops.”
If that is so, check out this post which features the other songs that were used.
http://motherjones.com/news/featurex/2008/03/torture-playlist.html
Going by that logic, Deicides music is right up to ‘military standards’ of other brutal artists such as Neil Diamond, The BeeGees, C. Aguilara, Prince, Dan McClean and, MOST EVIL OF ALL : the Meow Mix Cat Food Jingle!
Oh and They actually DID use the Barney theme.
BTW – The ATF blasted Slayer at the Waco Branch Davidian compound for days as a ‘pyschological weapon’.
We saw how well that turned out.
I think it’s a little silly to react harshly to this press release. I mean, they ARE Deicide. They kind of want to be hated, no?
Let’s give the guys a little slack. Don’t go pissing all patriotic just because your MySpace garbage wasn’t rated so utterly badass that it’s used in a program to psychologically damage other human beings.
if he wasn’t proud of it, and yet sings songs about cutting the head of Jesus and murdering Christians wouldn’t that basically make him and Deicide the biggest poseurs on the face of the planet? Answer: yes.
Seriously, folks, it’s fucking Death Metal, if you don’t have a seriously dark streak running through your veins you are just going through the motions for shock value to piss your mom off while you try to score skunkweed to smoke in the basement and not really connecting with the music. Torturing people shouldn’t made you break out the petuli oil and shitty carboard signs in protest. It should merely make you laugh at the folly of man at worst.
P.S. where was torture ever mentioned in this article? Interrogation doesn’t = torture. Military prisons don’t have the same ‘crule and unusual’ standards civilian prisons have.
I would like to propose that we are thinking wrongly of how the music is being used? Do you think they play all these songs and hold a speaker to the victim’s head or is this just the collective of music listened to, by the guys inflicting the actual torture?
@ Ian: The press release specifically says that the songs are “strategically used on military prisoners” and makes mention of “sleep deprivation and interrogation disorientation.” So, no, it isn’t just being listened to the guys inflicting the torture.
You don’t need a seriously dark vein to listen to death metal, it’s awesome stuff. I think its great Deicide and other metal bands are being used to “torture” the prisoners. This isnt even torture, it kind of is a laughing matter that you guys are taking it so seriously, oh boo hoo human rights my ass.
Totally metal.
Deicide is fucking badass and that is the whole point of death metal. Wigger faggot Eminem is the ones who should be pissed, your music must fucking suck if you play rap and they use that to torture people. Deicide’s music is so fucking brutal and demonic as they intended to be that it used for torture. For some one that plays death metal that is a million times better that winning a music award.
deicide is DOPE
forsee at my end to be banished,
By your god for my life and branding
Never around, in the greatness of sorrow,
Screw your god and his UN writ moral.
Stifle god, and the idols of hatred,
Out of my heart, I have always been free,
One with no need all alone and satanic.
Wretched and Vile, fuck your god, de face him.
Who could believe in a lord that’s demanding?
Hard to believe when we die we vanish,
In his deny and for all his creation,
Fuck your god and his righteous hatred.
You and your son, you are nothing but absence,
Something not there that controls this planet,
Only deceit do I see in your hallow
If you believe you will dwell in failure.
Fuck Your God, Holy mother for the whore she is,
Fuck your God, bible thumper preaching threats from hymn,
Fuck your god, his revival and the holy Ghost,
Fuck your god; only tell us what we need to know,
Fuck your god, pointing fingers and then do as me,
Fuck your god, you are nothing and you’ll never be,
Fuck your god; it is Satan who in trusts my soul,
Fuck your god, where the Christians are I will not go.
Fuck your god!!!!!
Fuck his, commandments, and prophet’s left stranded to die,
Not in my heart or my soul as I go through this life,
Good book of bullshit lay dirty with vengeance and lies,
Go fuck your Jesus and get- the- fuck out my sight.
Unity over flowing with anger,
It is our time to remove the savior,
Christians are weak and the bible is beaten,
Homage to god, in this world not needed.
Fuck your god an his annals of plager,
Falling apart and exposing the light,
I will not live by the words of their Jesus,
He did not die to protect or save me.
There is just blood in his book of deceiving,
Riddles and crap to his divine healing,
Fail is your faith and you blame it on Satan,
Christians can’t see that their preys are wasted.
Not a slave to religion unrendered,
Falsified god and his Christ redempters.
Never to be in the presence of grandeur,
I am for me and forever after.
Fuck Your God, Holy mother for the whore she is,
Fuck your God, bible thumper preaching threats from hymn,
Fuck your god, his revival and the holy Ghost,
Fuck your god; only tell us what we need to know,
Fuck your god, pointing fingers and then do as me,
Fuck your god, you are nothing and you’ll never be,
Fuck your god; it is Satan who in trusts my soul,
Fuck your god, where the Christians are I will not go.
Fuck your god!!!!! Fuck you!!!!
Thank you for posting those lyrics. As it had been said, the song was used during interrogations and not for torture. I am 31 years old with three children, 4, 3,& 1 yrs. old. We are a metal family. My four year old loves slayer and thinks the highest of kerry king. My whole family loves this music and I am taking my wife and four year old to a Slayer show on june 22nd 2009. My own 4 year old knows that this is entirely music and is created by the hardest working musicians out there. We teach him as well as our other 2 that it is a community of very nice people with awesome music and a message. How people take those messages is their own deal, but we teach them that the messages are based upon the way that the world is. Metal bands aren’t calling war cool, they’re letting us know what’s really happening and encouraging fans in their own little way to make some fucking changes. Glenn Benton is no different by executing his rights to freedom of speach. The one last freedom that we actually have…For now. If you want to call metal music evil or satanic then so be it, but you are a fool, a tool, and a load of stool, you fucking retarded simple minded fuck. Get a life and quit labeling others. So as far as I’m concerned, and I don’t give a damn who disagrees because I’ve read a lot of bull shit blogs from people who don’t know shit, but the bible’s out, long and lost are any of the messages. prayer does nothing for any one, it’s proven daily. BLAME IT ON GOD!!!!!!!! Deicide’s the shit! Keep it up Glenn.
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