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.
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Length: 01:24:20
Posted: 6/9/2009
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. The filmmakers have collected glimpses into the struggles of Acrassicauda as they try to stay together and stay alive. BUY THE DVD: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001...
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Posted: 1/19/2010
Heavy Metal In Baghdad movie trailer - starring Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi, Firas al Lateef, Faisal Talal, Marwan Reyad. Genre: Documentary
Rating: R
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Length: 01:47
Posted: 3/11/2009
Heavy Metal in Baghdad is a documentary feature film that follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda (Latin for a deadly black scorpion native to Iraq) from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to their escape from Iraq. The band members - Firas (bass), Tony (lead guitar), Marwan (drums) and Faisal (lead vocals and rhythm guitar) - were bred on American heavy metal albums, learning to speak English by listening to Slayer, Metallica and Slipknot. 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. This is the story of their struggle to play the music that they love refusing to let their heavy metal dreams die.
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Length: 01:24:17
Posted: 7/29/2008
