Fourteen years after forming in Baghdad, the metal band Acrassicauda will release its first full-length album, Gilgamesh, on April 4. The delay is understandable, as the band members risked their… By ...

Iraqi metal act Acrassicauda have spoken out on Donald Trump’s travel ban. Having emigrated to the U.S. from Iraq nine years ago, drummer Marwan Hussein is feeling “mixed emotions of being disgusted ...

Members of the Iraqi metal band Acrassicauda, who risked their lives writing and performing western-style rock music in their native country, will host a benefit concert to support immigration… By ...

Acrassicauda are the first metal band to emerge out of war-torn Iraq, and they're coming to Seattle to fire off their petrified, ear-splitting mass of Slayer/Metallica-bred rock. When they formed in ...

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 ...

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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For most bands that play it, metal is a metaphor. But for Acrassicauda, the dark imagery and sounds on their 2010 EP, "Only the Dead See the End of the War," are a fairly literal interpretation of ...

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 ...

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 ...