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Playing heavy metal in a muslim country has always been a difficult if not impossible proposition but after saddams regime was toppled, there was a brief. In 2005, iraqi heavy metal outfit acrassicauda put on a soldout show in baghdad. More than 300 metal heads defied the dangers of being in a baghdad crowd. If they existed in america,europe,asia,or even parts of africa,no problem.
The red herring in heavy metal in baghdad is the music. Heavy metal in baghdad, which has been playing festivals and will be released theatrically in may, was born out of an article in vice magazine, the free monthly that alvi cofounded in 1994. In anticipation of here on earths first broadcast for inside islam on september 25, here is the trailer for a documentary called heavy metal in baghdad. Inspired by groups like metallica, slayer, and slipknot, the band began writing and playing. Rent heavy metal in baghdad 2007 starring acrassicauda on dvd and bluray. In the late summer of 2006, in the middle of the insurgency, filmmakers eddy moretti and suroosh alvi traveled to baghdad to meet and interview the only heavy metal band in iraq, acrassicauda. It follows the heavy metal band acrassicauda, whose young members have struggled to survive, both as a band and as residents of baghdad, since the toppling of saddam hussein in 2003. 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. Heavy metal in baghdad watch documentary online for free. A book accompanying the film was released in 2009, titled heavy metal in baghdad the story of acrassicauda. 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. It began as a series of webisodes for vbs, vices online network.
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