Torture Playlist: Trent Reznor Responds

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mojo-photo-reznor2.jpgBack in February, we posted a “Torture Playlist” featuring songs that the American military had used to, um, “enhance” interrogations, including tracks by Eminem, Drowning Pool, Metallica, and Rage Against the Machine. As Jesse Finfrock covered here on Wednesday, musicians have joined forces with a human rights organization to put a stop to the use of music as torture. Now, Stereogum points out that another artist has joined the voices of protest: Trent Reznor, whose music as Nine Inch Nails was used to torture Chicago military contractor Donald Vance. Yesterday, Reznor posted an outraged message at his official website entitled “Regarding NIN music used at Guantanamo Bay for torture”:

It’s difficult for me to imagine anything more profoundly insulting, demeaning and enraging than discovering music you’ve put your heart and soul into creating has been used for purposes of torture. If there are any legal options that can be realistically taken they will be aggressively pursued, with any potential monetary gains donated to human rights charities. Thank GOD this country has appeared to side with reason and we can put the Bush administration’s reign of power, greed, lawlessness and madness behind us.

Wait, “monetary gains”? You mean there could be royalties? Hmm… can anybody find out if any mashups made it into the torture rooms?

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