Every band has its set of problems. Feuding guitarists, trouble getting gigs, issues with scraping up enough money to record a record or go on tour. Few American bands face the same struggles as ...
ELIZABETH, N.J.ELIZABETH, N.J. — The band Acrassicauda is rockin’ in the free world, but how they got here is an immigrant song of a different type. After avoiding Saddam Hussein’s secret police, ...
ELIZABETH, N.J. – The band Acrassicauda is rockin' in the free world, but how they got here is an immigrant song of a different type. After avoiding Saddam Hussein's secret police, enduring the ...
Not long after the United States-led invasion of Iraq, the Baghdad heavy metal band Acrassicauda received a death threat. "You are Americanized, playing Western music," it read. "You either quit or ...
The Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda formed in a basement in Baghdad under the Saddam Hussein regime — not exactly the easiest place to play thrash metal. But after the U.S. invasion, things got ...
For any other band, playing a show in the cramped basement of Brooklyn metal dive bar The Charleston would be just another night. For Acrassicauda, it was nothing less than revolutionary. The band's ...
is the rare band whose personal story is at least as compelling as their music. The quartet, who in 2009 moved to New Jersey, according to their blog on . Once the war started, the bombs fell on ...
“I know there are a lot of metal bands that are trying to live like they were already living in war but what I’d say is: you guys have a better life than we did.” In 2002, with an U.S.-led invasion ...
In America, heavy metal is lifestyle, but in Iraq, metal can cost you your life. Thrash-metal band Acrassicauda was founded in Baghdad in 2001 by four guys who just wanted to rock. Forging a sound ...
This is second in a series on musicians affected directly by President Trump’s travel ban on seven Middle Eastern countries. Read the other pieces on Iranian born electronic artist Ash Koosha and ...
ELIZABETH, N.J. – The band Acrassicauda is rockin' in the free world, but how they got here is an immigrant song of a different type. After avoiding Saddam Hussein's secret police, enduring the ...
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