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    Posted: 12 Feb 2016 at 12:31pm
Members of the Iranian thrash metal band Confess have been arrested for "playing heavy metal, owning an independent record label and for communicating with foreign radio stations." Read more here: http://metalnationradio.ca/20000-2/ 

Please share this around and hopefully the band can be saved from this injustice.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Nightfly Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Feb 2016 at 12:59pm
Arrested for playing metal! - What a crazy world we live in.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Triceratopsoil Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Feb 2016 at 1:41pm
frankly... what do you expect with a country like Iran?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote UMUR Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Feb 2016 at 3:51pm
Terrible...I bet some of the people who initially supported the fall of the Shah is now pretty sorry they did Unhappy. Ultra religious people who tell other people how they should live their lives make me sick Dead
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Unitron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Feb 2016 at 12:16am
It is indeed terrible, I hope the metal community can help spread the word.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Vim Fuego Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Feb 2016 at 1:37am
Western music is illegal all over the Islamic world. It just depends how harshly the government enforces the law. That's part of the reason the US army used Metallica and Twisted Sister to torture Muslim prisoners- it is just so foreign, blasphemous and unfamiliar.

If you haven't seen the documentary called "Global Metal", I seriously suggest tracking it down. It shows the plight of metal fans in some of these seriously repressed countries. In some countries this sort of thing happens a lot, while in other Muslim countries like Indonesia metal is huge.
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Rumor has it this is almost completely unrelated to playing heavy metal, it's because of the radio station thing
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It looks like Confess are no longer going to be facing execution, but still have some troubles: http://loudwire.com/iranian-metal-band-confess-no-longer-facing-execution/

I hope these guys get things sorted out, I'm glad they're safe for the time being though.
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