It's not about music being extreme. Actually, you can see that other bands in the list aren't something that is generally considered being extreme. I'd argue th

It's not about music being extreme. Actually, you can see that other bands in the list aren't something that is generally considered being extreme. I'd argue that listening to Merzbow as a torture method is far easier than Queen exactly because of lack of structure — I generally listen to Merzbow and such when I'm extremely tired and it just helps to relax and stop thinking. Anyway, I wouldn't be so sure that loud music for 12 hours is actually more humanistic (hah, humanistic torture — I've got to remember that!) than arbitrary item from your list. After all, Chinese water torture [1] also sounds surprisingly harmless, right? [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_water_torture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_water_torture