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Iraqi Death Metal Band DOG FACED CORPSE Breaking Down Stereotypes

November 25, 2008

Afif Sarhan of IslamOnline.net reports: Lateef Ahmed knew when he started his band that their music will never be the popular mainstream in conservative Iraq. "Metal has been always hated and misunderstood all over the world, but in Iraq it's something totally weird…especially if we are talking here about death metal," Ahmed, the drummer in the DOG FACED CORPSE band, told IslamOnline.net.

Ahmed, 22, says he has been listening to metal music since he was 13.

DOG FACED CORPSE, one of the few death heavy metal bands that surfaced in Iraq over the past few years, is the second one he participates in since 2006.

"Most of the metal fans in Iraq don't listen to death metal, they would listen to stuff like METALLICA or LINKIN PARK, although there is always the minority who appreciate true thrash and death metal."

Read the entire report from IslamOnline.net.

DOG FACED CORPSE featured on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show":

DOG FACED CORPSE live in Baghdad:

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