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. "Heavy ...( read more
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March 11, 2009Acrassicauda means 'black scorpion' in latin. It's also the name of the only heavy metal band in Iraq. Needless to say, heavy metal is frowned upon by the fundamentalist authorities, who see their music as a form of Western propaganda. The journey of filmmakers finding this contr...( read more)
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November 18, 2009The daily struggles these guys go through to conquer even the simplest of tasks is incomprehinsible.
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December 3, 2009All crust punks should be shipped to Baghdad and then try to start their anarchist ideal bands
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September 5, 2009A really great two-part documentary about Acrassicauda. It shows footage of them playing before a crowd plus some rehearsals. Mostly it is an interview with the band members about the toll the war has taken on their dreams of making it big. Eventually the bad re-settles in Syria,...( read more)
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July 21, 2009All these guys want to do is rock, grow their hair long and do their part for the metal brotherhood, but the only problem is they happen to live in war torn Iraq. This documentary captures the danger and peril people are going through over there, and it's really sad and scary. ...( read more)
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October 18, 2008I like metal. I like documentaries. If the band was any good this would have been 4 or 5 stars. If the film makers were any good this would have been 4 or 5 stars. It's a good thing for the band and the film makers that human misery is so damn erotic. It doesn't hurt that Iraqi p...( read more)
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