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According to Indiainfo.com, New Delhi’s The History Channel, an infotainment television channel, has launched a 17-part special series on classic rock music. The series History Rocks was launched Friday with a concert by the Indian band PARIKRAMA in the capital. It will formally go on air June 5 and will present recordings of memorable concerts, rare documentaries and interviews with the cult figures of music and offer a glimpse into the lives of the rock legends spanning four decades of rock music since the ’60s, a communiqué by the channel said.

“It will be a beautiful series because I watched when it was on television the last time. It is being re-launched with several new additions and new features this time, in a completely new avatar. I am looking forward to its inaugural episode on METALLICA’s Black, the documentary on BOB MARLEY and PINK FLOYD’s Dark Side Of The Moon.

“There is also a docu-feature on Pink Floyd’s signature album, which no other channel has shown before,” Subir Malik of Parikrama told IANS Saturday.

Parikrama played 10 originals, which include two new releases – Lechaim (an Israeli word which means ‘two lives’) and Life Is Certain – for the History Channel concert. Besides, it also paid tribute to JIMI HENDRIX, AC/DC and Pink Floyd.

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Heavy Metal in Baghdad is a feature film documentary that follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to the present day. Playing heavy metal in a Muslim country has always been a difficult (if not impossible) proposition but after Saddam’s regime was toppled, there was a brief moment for the band in which real freedom seemed possible. That hope was quickly dashed as their country fell into a bloody insurgency. From 2003-2006, Iraq disintegrated around them while Acrassicauda struggled to stay together and stay alive, always refusing to let their heavy metal dreams die. Their story echoes the unspoken hopes of an entire generation of young Iraqis.

Born out of a basement rehearsal space in Baghdad, Acrassicauda (Latin for “Black Scorpion”) is Iraq’s only heavy metal band. Tutored by music instructor and guitar virtuoso Saad “Yngwie” Say and inspired by western bands like Metallica, Slayer and Slipknot, they began writing and playing metal in 2001. They soon learned that their dream of performing live in Iraq was going to be no easy task.

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In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West’s most maligned musical genre – heavy metal – has impacted the world’s cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world’s emerging extreme music scenes — from Indonesian death metal to Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal. GLOBAL METAL reveals a worldwide community of metalheads who aren’t just absorbing metal from the West – they’re transforming it. Creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass-consumerism.

MetalIndia’s own Atul Sharma is also featured in the documentary. Make sure you check it when it comes out.

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