Acrassicauda - 2010 - Only The Dead See The End Of The War (EP) [320 MP3]

Artist: Acrassicauda
Album: Only The Dead See The End Of The War (EP)
Genre: Thrash/Groove Metal
Country of Origin: Iraq (Now in USA)
Released: 2010
Band Description: Acrassicauda is the latin name of a black scorpion species (Androctonus crassicauda), which the band adopted for its name. It is often credited as being the first heavy metal group to emerge from Iraq. The original band consisted of three Arab members and one Assyrian (Tony Aziz Yaqoo). The band formed and played concerts under the regime of Saddam Hussein. It became well known outside of the local Iraqi metal scene after Vice magazine did a profile of the band. It received even greater coverage when it was profiled in a feature-length documentary about the band and its troubles in Iraq called Heavy Metal in Baghdad, IMDb Link. The band's first album was released on March 9, 2010. The group was inspired by bands such as Metallica, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Rage Against the Machine, and Slipknot. Their music deals with war and suffering at times, but the songs are meant to be apolitical. Because of its increased fame after the Iraqi regime change, the band started to receive death threats from Islamic militants who thought that the band was worshiping Satan. Due to this and the increasing violence in Baghdad, the members of the band fled first to Syria and then Turkey before being granted refugee status in the United States of America. Most of the band settled in New Jersey, but Tony Aziz decided to live with family in Michigan, before moving to Richmond, Virginia. The band now resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Track list:
01 - Message From Baghdad (04:02)
02 - Garden of Stones (04:50)
03 - Massacre (05:51)
04 - The Unknown (06:10)
05 - Garden of Stones (edit) (4:44)
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Total playing time: 25:37

Details:
Audio Format: MPEG Audio
Format version: Version 1
Format profile: Layer 3
Mode: Joint stereo
Bit rate mode: Constant
Bit rate: 320 Kbps
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Compression mode: Lossy
Writing library: LAME 3.97 (track #5: LAME 3.99r)
Encoding settings: -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 20.5
Source: Web-DL
Cover: Yes
Cover type: Cover (front)
Cover MIME: image/jpeg

Uploader's notes:
This is NOT ripped by me. I found this on some metal blog years ago with a link to a direct download site for the album.
I ran a spectral analysis on the files, and they appear to be legit 320kbps mp3's with a cutoff just over 20KHz.
I added an edited version of track #2 to trim off the label's advertisement at the end of the song. Otherwise, tracks #2 and #5 are identical. Alterations were done using Audacity.
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