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ELIZABETH, N.J. - The band Acrassicauda is rockin' in the free world, but how they got here is an immigrant song of a different type.
Filed Under (Main Content) by Content Keyword RSS on 09-03-2009
The band Acrassicauda is rockin' in the free world, but how they got here is an immigrant song of a different type. After avoiding Saddam Hussein's secret police, enduring the bombing of their practice space, dodging death threats and navigating sectarian warfare in their native land, four Iraqi musicians who wanted nothing more than to rock 'n' roll all night are living in New Jersey, pursuing ...
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ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — The band Acrassicauda is rockin' in the free world, but how they got here is an immigrant song of a different type.
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It was a heavy metal miracle. Acrassicauda had been through hell as a rock band in wartime Baghdad. Its practice space was bombed. Its members were branded Satan worshipers and received death threats for making Western-style music. Then they suffered through two purgatorial years as refugees in Syria and Turkey, killing time and dreaming of....
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Posted by Kate Sands Adams on February 3rd, 2009 Marwan Riyadh, drumer from the Baghdad heavy metal band Acrassicauda, is greeted by two of his bandmates at Newark Liberty International Airport. Photo: Lisa WhitemanIf you watched “Heavy Metal in Baghdad” you know how the band Acrassicauda (”Black Scorpion”) became a target for extremists for daring to play heavy metal rock in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. A story in today’s New York Times describes the hell the band had been through i
