A handout picture taken 08 December 2007 from heavy metal group Acrassicauda's website shows Acrassicauda performing at the VICE-sponsored concert at the Al-Fanar Hotel in Baghdad in 2005. Members of Iraq's only heavy metal group, now struggling to survive in Turkey, will not be joining the flow of refugees returning to their war-ravaged homeland anytime soon -- if they can help it. Getty Images logo Getty Images 26 months ago

A handout picture taken 08 December 2007 from heavy metal group Acrassicauda's website shows Acrassicauda performing at the VICE-sponsored concert at the Al-Fanar Hotel in Baghdad in 2005. Members of Iraq's only heavy metal group, now struggling to survive in Turkey, will not be joining the flow of refugees returning to their war-ravaged homeland anytime soon -- if they can help it.

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