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Acrassicauda is an Iraqi thrash metal band formed in 2001. They are often credited as being the first heavy metal group to emerge from Iraq. They formed and played concerts under the Saddam regime, and became well known outside of the local Iraqi metal scene after Vice magazine did a profile of them. They received even greater coverage when they were profiled in a feature length documentary about the band and their troubles in Iraq called, Heavy Metal in Baghdad. Their debut, the EP called Only the Dead See the End of War, was released on March 9, 2010. The...

Leopoldo Rassier was a brazilian gaúcho composer from Rio Grande do Sul. .

Goffredo Petrassi (July 16, 1904 – March 3, 2003) was a leading Italian member of the second generation of modernists. In the English-speaking world, his contemporary Luigi Dallapiccola has been better known. However, in his own country, Petrassi, who took robustly Stravinskian and Hindemithian neo-classicism as the starting point for a long, varied, creative journey that continued into the early 1980s, was just as highly regarded. After Dallapiccola's death, he became the grand old man of Italian music. He was born at Zagarolo, Italy. At the age of 15 he began to work at a music shop to supply his...

A perpetually inquisitive child, Michael Anthony Wright was never fully satisfied by 'just' listening. A desire to 'get around the back of music' led the young Wright to start modifying electronic equipment, rejigging everything from turntables to tape recorders before moving on to making 'tape collages' of everything from De La Soul to his own voice. His teenage years saw the advent of rave and with it an opportunity to escape the humdrum banality of his Kentish hometown for something altogether exciting. Whilst some of Wright's friends eventually took the party life style of the time to the dangerous extremes,...