{"id":4023,"date":"2014-02-04T06:25:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T06:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/02\/04\/the-us-military-tortured-people-with-skinny-puppy-now-the-band-wants-compensation\/"},"modified":"2014-02-04T06:25:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T06:25:23","slug":"the-us-military-tortured-people-with-skinny-puppy-now-the-band-wants-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/02\/04\/the-us-military-tortured-people-with-skinny-puppy-now-the-band-wants-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Military Tortured People with Skinny Puppy. Now, the Band Wants Compensation\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR-6f1Jln5xfUHVJfg7ez61PaNu7HzOxNYhrIBtE77j7CKEx_Fw\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"162\" \/><br \/>It\u2019s well-known that the United States military uses metal music (among other genres) to torture people.\u00a0 But not everyone has a problem with that: Metallica, for example, has objected to the use of their music, but the \u201cChristian metal\u201d band Demon Hunter pretty much begged the military to use their music.  <!--more-->  <br \/>Canadian band Skinny Puppy now says their music was also used by the U.S. as a torture device.\u00a0 The band didn\u2019t approve, but they didn\u2019t ask the military to shut it down.<\/p>\n<p>Read what Skinny Puppy\u2019s founder cEvin Key had to say about the torture in an interview with the Phoenix New Times:<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe heard through a reliable grapevine that our music was being used in Guantanamo Bay prison camps to musically stun or torture people\u2026 We heard that our music was used on at least four occasions.\u00a0 So we thought it would be a good idea to make an invoice to the U.S. government for musical services.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Phoenix New Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s well-known that the United States military uses metal music (among other genres) to torture&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}