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HEAVY METAL RETURNS TO BAGHDAD

 Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 at 4:00pm by

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Nothing like seeing heavy metal hit prime time television.

On last night’s The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, Maddow (pictured above) mentioned the Iraqi band Accrassicauda (see my review of the documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad) and how they were forced to flee their home country more than five years ago after the American-led invasion.

According to the eloquent liberal commentator Maddow, heavy metal has once again returned to Iraq.

Maddow quoted an article in USA Today that talked about the bands Brutal Impact (pictured below) and Dog Faced Corpse and their performances at a “private party on the banks of the Tigris” this past Saturday. “Tables were broken, lyrics were screamed, amps were maxed out.”

Maddow further added that band members had been stereotyped based on their appearances (just like in the good ol’ US of A), except people assumed they were either Mahdi Army supporters or members of al-Qaeda because of their black wardrobe and goatees.

One 18-year-old female fan, Nadaa Haidar, who was rocking out to a Metallica cover said, “There’s nothing wrong with wearing a veil and listening to metal.” Added the extremely pleasant Maddow, “Amen to that. Rock on!”

Seriously, now. Do you ever think you will see Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity give a shout out to metal? Maddow certainly throws goat better than Sarah Palin. Here’s the link to the video since the embed doesn’t work. Fast forward to the 3:00 mark if you want to see only the segment on metal.

Be sure to check out that USA Today article for an excellent four-minute video on the concert. The highlight is a crowd singalong to Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters.”

-CM

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  • Ninja

    Rachel Maddow completely rules. I would TOTALLY go gay for her. Actually, I think I just did.

  • Ninja

    (And, Corey, you rock for posting this. Never thought I’d see Ms. Maddow here…)

  • Cam

    That sing-along is goosebump material.

  • http://www.metalinjection.net ryan

    i’m a big fan of both rachel maddow and metal, so this was awesome.. saw it in my podcast this morning!

  • cornblood

    great story

  • Iron Mayden

    Playing Metal in Iraq is very fucking metal.

  • ChampChampagne

    The only reason they are rockin out metal is because the evil republican George Bush sent our troops over there. In the end we removed Saddam and now the Iraqis have freedom and can rock out. I guess you can only slam George Bush when it is convienient.

  • http://www.myspace.com/bminekime enemyofgod72

    @ChampChampagne

    Wow 8 years of throwing our country in the toilet and Dubya’s one accomplishment is getting metal back in Baghdad. I bet everyone in NOLA feels better now. Dubya should be perp-walked out of the White House and dragged by his sac over broken glass all the way back to Crawford,TX and then set on fire. FUCK BUSH!!

    Oh … RACHEL RULZ!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.coreymitchell.com Corey Mitchell

    @ChampChampagne: In the end we removed Saddam and now the Iraqis have freedom and can rock out.

    Actually, Iraqis were able to and did play metal in Iraq until the George W. Bush-led invasion of their country. Check out the documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad for the whole story. The bands were forced to flee due to all the violence brought in by American military forces, not because metal was banned by Saddam.

  • Rob

    Great that this was picked up on, but what a bad picture of Rachel. She looks like Samantha Ronson. Bad screen capture? I watch The Rachel Maddow Show and Countdown every night, though. Oh, and if you were out of the loop, Rachel will be on the Colbert Report tonight. Sweet, hot pancakes.

  • Chris

    Fuck Rachel Maddow. Come to think of it, fuck Bill Maher, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, all those money grubbing whores. I like to watch news, not some douchebags opinion.