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Acrassicauda is an Iraqi thrash metal band formed in 2001. It is often credited as being the first heavy metal group to emerge from Iraq. The band consists of three Arab members and one Assyrian (Tony Aziz Yaqoo). The band formed and played concerts under the regime of Saddam Hussein. It became well known outside of the local Iraqi metal scene after Vice magazine did a profile of the band. It received even greater coverage when it was profiled in a feature-length documentary about the band and its troubles in Iraq called Heavy Metal in Baghdad. The band's first album was released on March 9, 2010.
Because of it increased fame after the American regime change, the band started to receive death threats from Islamic militants who thought that the band was worshiping Satan. Due to this and the increasing violence in Baghdad the members of the band fled first to Syria and then Turkey before being granted refugee status in the United States of America. Most of the band settled in New Jersey, but Tony Aziz decided to live with family in Michigan.
Hab vorhin die Doku "Heavy Metal in Bagdad" geschaut und kann nur sagen, DIESE Band hätte es sowas von verdient, am W:O:A zu spielen.
Hört euch doch mal rein:
Song "Gardens of Stone": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXxt3SiGvTg
Song "Massacre": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALyaO3_nR5Y
Link zur Doku: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTJ1Ki4OM-g
Because of it increased fame after the American regime change, the band started to receive death threats from Islamic militants who thought that the band was worshiping Satan. Due to this and the increasing violence in Baghdad the members of the band fled first to Syria and then Turkey before being granted refugee status in the United States of America. Most of the band settled in New Jersey, but Tony Aziz decided to live with family in Michigan.
Hab vorhin die Doku "Heavy Metal in Bagdad" geschaut und kann nur sagen, DIESE Band hätte es sowas von verdient, am W:O:A zu spielen.
Hört euch doch mal rein:
Song "Gardens of Stone": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXxt3SiGvTg
Song "Massacre": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALyaO3_nR5Y
Link zur Doku: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTJ1Ki4OM-g