Audio: Heavy metal from Baghdad

Emily Holland '01 helped an Iraqi heavy-metal band, Acrassicauda, settle in America. Hear the band's songs and story.

Posted on June 10, 2009

While working for the International Rescue Committee, Emily Holland ’01 helped members of a heavy-metal band from Iraq, Acrassicauda, come to the United States.

Heavy metal wasn’t tolerated during the Saddam years, and the band’s struggle to rehearse and play without being killed is the subject of a documentary film called Heavy Metal in Baghdad.

Here is a link to the band’s Myspace page; click on “playlist” to hear several of the band’s songs. The page also includes the movie trailer for Heavy Metal in Baghdad.

http://www.myspace.com/wwwacrassicaudas5com

Here is a link to an NPR interview with lead singer Faisal Talal, drummer Marwan Riyadh, and the co-director and producer of Heavy Metal in Baghdad, Suroosh Alvi.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101948030

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Jessica Walter '01 Says:

2009-11-09 13:37:23

Way to go, Emily! Thank you for doing such noble work and representing the Class of 2001 so amazingly!

M. Picasso Says:

2009-11-09 13:42:45

they r good in what they do as I know ... Marwan is such a guy ... once he came to my shop in Adhamiyah and we talk a lot cuz I was having CD's and a lot of thinks and we talked about the band days will never come back ever ... wish him to be what he wants to be and wish all of them to be safe and my GOD (Allah) be with u all. Best regards, M. Picasso

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