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Acrassicauda. Alvi went on to say, "We had outed them and endangered their lives. They were receiving threats from Iraq while they were in Syria. We had a responsibility." It was with Vice's help that the band was able to use a Syrian recording studio to record three tracks for a demo recording that included "Between the Ashes" and "Massacre". Turkish musicians also lent the band a fully equipped recording studio after hearing of the band's plight while in their country.
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of the band. The country had changed its immigration policies, forcing Iraqis to apply in
Baghdad instead of the Syrian border. The filmmakers campaigned to raise funds to relocate the band in a safer country rather than having it return to Iraq. The band members also sold their equipment to make the
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hotel. Because of Syrian government restrictions, the band was not allowed to call its concert heavy metal and, therefore, used rock music on concert advertising. At the concert, the band performed mostly cover songs because the Syrian audience was not familiar with the
Acrassicauda sound. In Syria,
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In July 2011, Acrassicauda embarked on its 2011 "Make it or Break it" inaugural national tour. Guitarist
Muhammed Al Ansari joined the band for the tour and continued with the band thereafter. Following the tour, Tony Aziz left the band, "due to family issues", and returned to Virginia. Additional
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After applying for asylum, the United States government granted the band refugee status, which allows it to apply for green cards after one year. Tony, Faisal, and Firas went first. Tony went to
Michigan to handle some family business and started living there. Faisal and Firas settled into their new
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Acrassicauda originally consisted of lead vocalist Waleed
Moudhafar, Assyrian guitarist Tony Aziz Yaqoo (also performing professionally as Tony Aziz), bassist Firas Al-Lateef, drummer Marwan Hussein Riyadh (also performing professionally as Marwan Hussein) and vocalist–guitarist Faisal Talal Mustafa
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While on the move, Vice magazine tried to resettle the members in Canada and
Germany while also providing money from the Vice corporation. Some $ 40,000 from Vice sponsors and donations collected online helped out with living expenses of the four band members, according to Suroosh Alvi, one of the
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in the summer of 2005. After stringent security, the concert was able to go on, but several power cuts interrupted the show. The band members practiced in a basement of a store complex until 2006, when the building, basement, and all the band's equipment was destroyed when it was bombed. Due to
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that it wanted to play as an "Iraqi heavy metal group, not as a refugee heavy metal group." He followed that with "all we care about is the music and playing heavy metal, and this is why we're still living, because it's the only way that we get our feelings out—by music."
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magazine, the conditions in
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reportage...both a stirring testament to the plight of cultural expression in
Baghdad and a striking report on the refugee scene in Syria, this rock-doc like no other electrifies its genre and redefines headbanging as an act of hard-core courage."
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The band was formed in 2000 after Riyadh and Talal met Aziz in a Baghdad school where they were studying fine arts. The four members worked as journalists and translators before the American invasion. The band name is derived from the
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the following February. The film was screened at additional international film festivals throughout 2008. It was released on DVD after a brief theatrical run in New York and Los Angeles.
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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
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common in Iraq. In Saddam's Iraq, the band was able to get inspiration from various bootleg tapes from heavy metal's 30-year history.
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magazine profile, and received even greater coverage with a feature-length documentary about the band and its troubles in Iraq called
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of Testament at Spin Studio in Astoria, Queens. Acrassicauda followed the release up with a performance with
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campaign, raising $ USD 37,383. On April 4. 2015, Acrassicauda released their first full studio album.
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Only a certain part of the Iraqi body is bad. The rest is good – just like the scorpion.
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Iraq's Acrassicauda Tear it up With Ministry, Shed 'Shrapnel Rock' Tag
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360:guitarist Marwan Grada joined the band in 2012.
913:"Band on the run – Iraqi rockers seek new home"
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851:"One Band Moves Its Metal Out of Iraq"
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1351:Brings War, Head-Banging to Berlin"
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1001:"Baghdad's refugee rockers"
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1087:"Band on the Run *Update*"
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