Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine is joining a group of bands including REM, Pearl Jam, and Nine Inch Nails who are filing a lawsuit to de-classify documents relating to how music was used to torute inmates at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. 

“Guantanamo is known around the world as one of the places where human beings have been tortured - from waterboarding to stripping, hooding and forcing detainees into humiliating sexual acts - playing music for 72 hours in a row at volumes just below that to shatter the eardrums,” Morello said.

Meanwhile, John Ondrasik, lead singer for the band Five For Fighting, is filing a similar lawsuit through the Freedom of Information Act to find out if his band was used at Guantanamo, and if so, if anyone down there wanted any of the promo CDs, T-shirts, or autographed 8x10s that are cluttering up his garage.

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