Perhaps I was a little harsh on Rage Against the Machine the other day.  As it turns out, they, along with David Gray, Massive Attack and other musicians, are still raging, this time against the use of music as torture.  The Zero dB campaign seeks to put an end to prisons using music as psychological torture in the “war on terror” by encouraging widespread condemnation of the practice and calling on governments and the U.N. to enforce the Convention Against Torture. The Guardian reports:

The list of bands whose music is used to torture prisoners in Guantanamo Bay reads like a grim roll call of American pop culture. Metallica, Britney Spears and even the Sesame Street theme tune have all been blasted into cells at Camp X-Ray, with the intention of traumatising and destabalising its inhabitants. But a new anti-torture initiative called Zero dB is hoping to bring an end to the technique by gathering the support of musicians whose songs are used in controversial interrogation techniques by US forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.

The growing list of supporters include many other musicians and artists and is organized by the human rights organization Reprieve and the Musician’s Union.

takepart by signing the Zero dB petition to stop the use of music as torture, and visit the Take Action section for Standard Operating Procedure.

And check out this video about Guantanamo from This Is Real Art with music from Massive Attack.