(antiMusic) Metallica frontman James Hetfield recently did an interview with the German language television network 3SAT where they covered many topics. One subject brought up during the interview was American politics and the use of a Metallica song to interrogate suspected terrorist. Hetfield expresses mixed feelings, but ultimately said that Metallica doesn't want to get mixed in with politics. Here is part of the Blabbermouth report following by a link to the full interview: "Part of me is proud is because they chose Metallica," Hetfield said about the reports that the band's song "Enter Sandman" was used during the interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani known as the 20th [9/11] hijacker and that listening to the track brought al-Qahtani to tears "because he thought he was hearing the sound of Satan."
James added, "It's strong; it's music that's powerful. It represents something that they don't like maybe freedom, aggression
I don't know
freedom of speech. And then part of me is kind of bummed about it that people worry about us being attached to some political statement because of that. We've got nothing to do with this and we're trying to be as apolitical as possible, 'cause I think politics and music, at least for us, don't mix. It separates people, [and] we wanna bring people together. So, so be it. I can't say 'Stop.' I can't say 'Do it.' It is just a thing it's not good or bad." - more on this story
