Metal band’s Baghdad “hell,” New York reunion
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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
