How often have you given your mates control of what music to play, only to instantly regret it when they throw on some terrible tunes you just can’t get around? Well, if you’re the United States Department Of Defence, the only appropriate action seems to be to issue a memo that bans the music you can’t stand.

As Canadian website Exclaim! reports, Geoffrey Ingersoll, a journalist who has previously worked for the Marine Times and Business Insider has taken to Twitter with a supposedly leaked memo that clarifies what music cannot be played in the Department Of Defence command post.

The memo, whose subject line reads “Banned Playing of Terrible “Rock Groups”‘ is as follows. “Effective 14 February 2017, the following bands will no longer be allowed to be played in the CP. This applies to all times, not just work hours.”

The listed bands include Korn, Nickleback [sic], Slipknot, Smashmouth [sic], and Creed, and basically proves that the US Department Of Defence hates both nu-metal and memes, no matter what time of day it is.

Considering that the memo’s identifying details are blurred out, we can’t be sure if this is truthful, or a well-constructed joke that is capitalising on the well-known hate of nu-metal. Either way, we can’t fully fault their choice of banned music.

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