You Must Watch the Documentary “Heavy Metal in Baghdad” Now!
If you want to check out an awesome, interesting, ballsy, and moving film dedicated to heavy metal music, then Heavy Metal in Baghad is mandatory viewing. This documentary follows a Metallica-worshipping Iraqi band through the hellish post-Saddam era, chronicling their struggles of writing, practicing, and performing their music, while trying to stay alive. The Sundance channel begins airing the film tonight at 10 p.m. or you can watch the movie in its entirety below.
Since the end of the film, Acrassicauda made it out of the Middle East and settled in Elizabeth, New Jersey. In fact, Metallica invited them backstage after performing at Newark’s Prudential Center .
March 19, 2009 at 7:00 pm
I have heard of this film–I think on NPR. Thanks for reminding me about it. Glad to hear their status update as well.
March 19, 2009 at 11:32 pm
You Must Watch the Documentary “Heavy Metal in Baghdad” Now!…
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May 24, 2009 at 8:27 am
[...] is a good film but falls just shy of the league in which you would find the likes of Heavy Metal In Baghdad, Some Kind of Monster, and The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years. Perhaps, [...]