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Growing up in Baghdad , it wasn't exactly easy for members of the band Acrassicauda to find American heavy metal music.
Filed Under (Main Content) by Content Keyword RSS on 26-11-2010
BAGHDAD - On a makeshift stage in a neglected wedding hall, Ahmed Salhi and his heavy-metal bandmates swigged vodka and screamed into their microphones, even though it was still midafternoon.
Filed Under (Main Content) by Content Keyword RSS on 26-11-2010
BAGHDAD - On a makeshift stage in a neglected wedding hall, Ahmed Salhi and his heavy-metal bandmates swigged vodka and screamed into their microphones, even though it was still midafternoon.
Filed Under (Main Content) by Content Keyword RSS on 09-02-2009
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
