“If there are people that are dumb enough to use Metallica to interrogate prisoners, you're forgetting about all the music that's to the left of us. I can name, you know, 30 Norwegian death metal bands that would make Metallica sound like Simon & Garfunkel.”

— Lars Ulrich

Said upon discovering that, during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, uncooperative prisoners were exposed to the Metallica song "Enter Sandman" for extended periods by American interrogators.
Source: [Maddow, Rachel, Rachel Maddow, Lars Ulrich, Metallica's Lars Ulrich joins Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, April 27, 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuNfAFOv2F4&t=6m19s, April 18, 2015]

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“If there are people that are dumb enough to use Metallica to interrogate prisoners, you're forgetting about all the music that's to the left of us. I can name, you know, 30 Norwegian death metal bands that would make Metallica sound like Simon & Garfunkel.”

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