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Report: Morocco's Metalheads Make Return

May 8, 2009

John Thorne of United Arab Emirates' The National reports: With four brothers, his mother and himself living on his father's meagre salary as a medical assistant, sometimes the gloom at home is more than Mohammed Makroum can take.

"I see only sad faces, so I go out again, pick up my guitar and chg-chg-chg-chg!" said Makroum, 20, miming the urgent downstrokes of his chosen music, heavy metal.

But things are starting to look up for Makroum. With victories at two music competitions last year and a first album in the works, his band, SAKADOYA, is at the vanguard of a heavy metal scene that is slowly recovering from charges of Satanism that seemed to have stopped it in its tracks.

Read the entire article from The National.

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