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If there is anything good to come out of the war in Iraq, it is film
documentary. Over the past four years or so, there has been a steady
stream of excellent movies. The latest of these is “Heavy Metal in
Baghdad” that showed briefly in theaters to universal acclaim. With a
modest budget, the documentary allows the principals to speak for
themselves. Acrassicauda, the Latin nomenclature for the black scorpion
that is found in the Iraqi desert, is the name of Iraq’s only heavy
metal band. Their struggle for survival, both physically and culturally,
is a reminder of the sustaining power of rock-and-roll.
