What playlist for killing terrorists?
US special forces say the Taliban hates heavy metal. I knew there was a reason I didn’t like those guys.
Update: I decided to create a play list of 10 songs entitled killing terrorists. It’s below.
Faction – Candiria
Black Label – Lamb Of God
When Slaves Revolt – Earth Crisis
Destroy Everything – Hatebreed
Hellbent (On War) – Throwdown
Pawns – Dead By Wednesday
Big Wiggly Style – The Devil Wears Prada
Fueled By Hate – Droid
Davidian – Machine Head
Turning Point – Superjoint Ritual
April 7th, 2010 at 9:49 am
“Meanwhile, Lieutenant Colonel Brian Christmas, the commander of US Marines in northern Marjah, said he was unaware of the musical psychological operations.”
Somewhere, upthere, Patton is warming up his good hand for this guy.
April 7th, 2010 at 9:49 am
oops, forgot the rest of the quote
“It’s inappropriate. I’m going to ask this to stop right now,” he added
April 7th, 2010 at 10:31 am
That is totally bad-ass.
Dying Fetus – One Shot, One Kill, might be a good one to add to that.
April 7th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Hold the Pig Steady.
April 7th, 2010 at 11:30 am
And that makes it official. I am over the hill.
In the above list, I can’t tell which are the band names and which the song titles.
I shall now retire to an interlude with Glenn Miller.
April 7th, 2010 at 11:31 am
well, in your defense, not a lot of metal bands see a lot of radio play.
April 7th, 2010 at 11:37 am
I am the Law, from Anthrax seems appropriate
for such a list…
April 7th, 2010 at 11:38 am
Um, how could you forget “Die, MF Die” by Dope?
April 7th, 2010 at 11:45 am
Our glorious overlord has good taste in music.
“well, in your defense, not a lot of ACTUAL metal bands see a lot of radio play.” – FTFY. Genre labels are vague, but theres a lot of “metal” on the radio that is really quite tame.
Pandora has a good selection of metal. Its nothing like RTDS.org used to be, but still good.
Die (And Die Now) by Devildriver.
April 7th, 2010 at 11:49 am
Awesome list. Good to see Droid getting some love. Might want to throw some As I Lay Dying or some Dry Kill Logic in the list as well.
April 7th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Indestructible by Disturbed is ‘tame, but the sentiment would fit.
April 7th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
“Mouth for War” and “Message in Blood” from Pantera
Kind of obvious, but Iron Maiden’s “The Trooper” for us old guys over 40.
Back in the late 80s, my old Infantry squad leader, the Megadeth fanatic, made us memorize the lyrics to “Peace Sells”. All through the day, he’d randomly come up to us and yell a line from the song into our faces. If we couldn’t immediately recite the next line, we were down on the ground doing pushups. Great fun.
April 7th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
I’d think that anything Orcs would dance to should be included.
April 7th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
I’d probably cue up some Rammstein…Heavy Metal + German just seem made for each other.
April 7th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
“Hold the Pig Steady.”
heh – are certain private contractors getting PUFFs for confirmed terrorist kills?
April 7th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Everything I know about heavy metal I learned from watching Metalocalypse on the Cartoon Network. While I would suppose almost any tune by Death Clock (or Deth Klok? I just dunno) would likely cause eyebleeds and testicle explosions at even a moderate volume, I don’t think the band is actually, you know, real. Still, they are my choice for anti-Taliban music, if the “I Love You, You Love Me” song from Barney the Dinosaur is ruled out.
April 7th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Mikee, I have 2 Dethklok cd’s and they are good stuff.
Should probably add some Fear Factory to the list Uncle…
April 7th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Depends. Any song he actually tries to sing and not scream in sounds awful.
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
My top10 (not in order)
Burn your crosses, Sabaton
Holy wars, Megadeth
Table round (Together), Grave digger
Balls to the wall, Accept
New religion, Black Label Society
Alone, Judas Priest.
Sex death and money, Alice Cooper
Go to Hell, Alice Cooper
Flash of the blade, Iron maiden
Soldiers of the wasteland, Dragonforce
Those of you acquainted with a certain band from Birmingham may say: “hey, one of those isn’t quite like the others”, well, that one most closely conforms to my personal opinion.
April 7th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Can’t believe no one posted “Enter Sandman” yet.
That would be a great song to blast from speakers on a helicopter, a la Apocalypse Now. Course, you’d lose the tactical advantage at that point…
April 7th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
“I’d probably cue up some Rammstein…Heavy Metal + German just seem made for each other.”
I came here to say this. Feuer Frei would be oddly appropriate.
April 7th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
How about “America, Fuck Yeah!”
April 7th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
It’s really a bad idea–anything that upsets the locals–they guys we’re trying to get on our good side, to help us fight, is a bad idea.
Would you like a neighbor who blasted Ricky Martin 24-7, despite your repeated requests not to? Would it piss you off that it was waking up your kids at night? Would you maybe gripe to other neighbors about it? Would you side with the only people around who were willing to do anything about it?
It shows a lack of understanding of the environment, the mission, and the basic principles of Counter-Insurgency.
April 7th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Not metal, but “Live and let Die” has the right attitude.
April 7th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Counting Bodies Like Sheep To the Rhythm of…
By Puscifer (Don’t like their politics but the tune is enough to make any insurgent go nuts)
April 7th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Call me old school – but here’s my picks for a good war sountrack.
Nailed to the Gun – Fight
Battery – Metallica
Burn in Hell – Judas Priest
Book of Heavy Metal – Dream Evil
Holy Wars – Megadeth
War Ensemble – Slayer
2 Minutes to Midnight – Iron Maiden
War Pigs – Black Sabbath (Dio version)
Bodies – Drowning Pool
Down with the Sickness – Disurbed
April 7th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
no The Trooper or Raining Blood?
April 7th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Lunatic Fringe – Red Ryder
Not metallic enough I guess.
April 7th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
New Millenium Cyanide Christ – Meshuggah
Get Some Go Again – Rollins Band
Super Junky Monkey – Buckin’ the Bolts
Goin’ to the Liquor Store – The Urge
The Trooper – Iron Maiden
Whiskey River – Willie Nelson
Rock ‘n Roll McDonalds – Wesley Willis
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition –
Blitzkrieg Bop – The Ramones
By Demons Be Driven – Pantera
Just a Gigolo – David Lee Roth
This IS PsyOps, after all.
April 7th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
I like these
Blitzkrieg Bop – The Ramones
She Wolf – Megadeth
War Pigs – Black Sabbath
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Metallica
Breakin the Law – Judas Priest
but that’s just because my band played them.
and maybe add
Bulls on Parade – Rage Against the Machine
(hate they lyrics, love playing the bass line)
April 8th, 2010 at 12:38 am
And in that vein, “Seek and Destroy” would also work well.
April 8th, 2010 at 2:52 am
one word: MASTODON
And chuck, if it were me, the locals would have been vaporized years ago.
April 8th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
There was a meme awhile back: “You’re trapped in a mall after the zombie apocalypse. You can have any one weapon (with unlimited ammo), program any one song to play continuously on the muzak system, and have any one partner to fight alongside…”
My answers were:
Weapon: 12-ga. pump (good destructive round, plus that racking sound is just too cool)
Song: “Close To You” by the Carpenters. (Really, what would inspire you more to killing frenzy?)
Partner: Nancy Pelosi. (First shot booms out, BLAM!! Me: “Oh, damn, Nancy…my bad…”)
April 8th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
War is the answer by five finger death punch. Semper fi mother f***er semper fi
April 9th, 2010 at 4:23 am
Godsmack, anyone?
—
Jerry
April 9th, 2010 at 11:59 am
Wow, can’t believe that Cannibal Corpse didn’t make the list. Back in the early 90’s (high school) they were pretty much all I listened to for a few years.