Red Hot Chili Peppers 'very upset' at music being used in torture

Red Hot Chili Peppers have spoken out after it emerged that the CIA had used their music to torture a prisoner during interrogation. 

Earlier this month the US Senate Intelligence Committee voted to begin declassifying the CIA's 6,600-page report on its "enhanced interrogation" procedures for dealing with prisoners in the period that followed 9/11. An anonymous interrogator then spoke to Al Jazeera about the interrogation of a prisoner known as Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn Abu Zubaydah, who was questioned by being made to slap-bass neo-funk-rock stylings of Red Hot Chili Peppers on loop - "to batter the detainee's senses".

In a recent interview with TMZ, RHCP drummer Chad Smith has slammed the tactic as 'upsetting' and 'bullshit'. 

"I've heard that they use more... like, hard rock, metal," said Smith. "Our music's positive man, it's supposed to make people feel good and that's... it's very upsetting to me, I don't like that at all. It's bullshit.

"Maybe some people think our music's annoying, I don't care, but you know... (they) shouldn't do that. They shouldn't be doing any of that shit."

The particular RHCP songs that were used is currently unknown. This isn't the first time that American authorities have used music to torture prisioners, with it previously revealed that songs by Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against The Machine and even the theme tune to Barney The Dinosaur being used in 'interrogation'.