I read an interesting article on the Guardian's website today about what music the troops in Afghanistan are listening to whilst out on patrol and in camp in general. Apparently, the large majority of troops are listening to heavy metal such as Metallica and Slayer, with Eminem also a favourite amongst soldiers. Now this struck me a little bit. I can imagine Metallica being good whilst out out on patrol, gunning down Taliban soldiers (the thought of 'Enter Sandman', explosions, blood and dead Arabs is making me go all gooey inside in a kind of Jerry Bruckheimer kind of way), but many of these guys are playing this really heavy stuff whilst sleeping. The report also suggests that some songs like Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (for those of you who haven't heard it, it's a Metallica song about being trapped in a mental asylum) are actually having some serious psychological affect on them, and, I quote: 'turning them into monsters, making them inhuman so they can do inhuman acts'. That is some seriously deep stuff, and I imagine many sceptics in America will be rubbing their hands together with the view that aggressive music is bringing up a generation of psychos. But hold the burning torches citizens of Obamaland, because other soldiers have expressed that heavy metal is virtually the only kind of therapy these guys are getting and is keeping them pumped and 'on their toes' in times of battle. So there we are, don't go and see a psychiatrist, put on Master of Puppets...Over and out xD
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