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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 ...

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....

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 rockin

HEAVY METAL MIRACLE In Baghdad their practice space was bombed. Now Acrassicauda, an Iraqi heavy metal band, has found refuge in America.