The Cult of the Folded Tongue: Heavy Metal in Baghdad

Heavy metal in the land of heavy metal.
Here's a film for your Netflix queue: Heavy Metal in Baghdad, the story of an Iraqi heavy metal band and their struggle to be free to play metal in the Armageddon of war-torn Baghdad 2005-07. So what if the music's unpracticed, so what if these guys could get disappeared for playing it, so what if all the concert-goers are men, so what if the musicians end up in expatriate dead-end jobs, playing for peanuts. The story's told from the Iraqi point of view, so it's a man in the street look at the devastation Bush's war has wreaked upon them. The evening news it ain't.

Image: Heavy Metal in Baghdad (2007). Directed by Suroosh Alvi, Eddy Moretti.