Library Rock's Backpages

Metallica: Taming the Beast

Chris Campion, Daily Telegraph, 12 June 2003

THE US ARMY'S Psychological Operations Company recently revealed that it has been playing Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' repeatedly to Iraqi prisoners as a pre-interrogation routine. In the words of one officer, "your brain and body functions start to slide, your train of thought slows down, and your will is broken".

Total word count of piece: 1127

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.