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(Now Playing) Heavy Metal in Baghdad Feature

Mar 8, 2010

Heavy Metal in Baghdad is a feature film documentary that follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to the present day. Playing heavy metal in a Muslim country has always been a difficult (if not impossible) proposition but after Saddam’s regime was toppled, there was a brief moment for the band in which real freedom seemed possible. That hope was quickly dashed as their country fell into a bloody insurgency. From 2003-2006, Iraq disintegrated around them while Acrassicauda struggled to stay together and stay alive, always refusing to let their heavy metal dreams die.

  • zaphodity

    FUCK THE U.S.A.

  • cramm1

    How would I get these guys to come to Quincy, IL for a show since they are in America now? I want...

  • SodaBob

    So, this is a new video. And you're publishing their EP. And yet, the new video doesn't say any...

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