DEADAVESRADIO MAGAZINE MARCH 2014 EDITION RE-ISSUE VOLUME 1 | Page 18

Metal: Way Beyond A Madness 'Iranian Heavy Metal Culture' DeadDavesRadio Magazine welcomes to the family a new reporter from Iran. Dave has been the head of the Persian Max Cavalera Tribe since 1992. Dave has been a metal head for the majority of his life and has helped pave the way to overcome the musical oppression in his country. We are stoked about having him in board and looking forward to what he brings us in the coming months! Every man on this planet has a hobby, few have addictions. Some people enjoy listening Jazz music with their dinner while the others dance with a pop song in a club. Many people admire the art of classic stuff and also there are tons of rap lovers out there. Back in the 80’s, when the European electronic pop was changing the world by its magic, you cut your hair and dressed like them. It's called a ‘Popular Fad' unless you did, you'd be considered a total FREAK! Well, I like being a freak and this is my story, a freak boy in a dystopian area of the world. The last place on earth you could imagine being a metalhead! I was born and grew up in a dead, abandoned neighborhood in one of the southern states of Islamic Republic of IRAN. There, you had to wait a couple of hours just to take a bus to get you downtown. Living in such a ghetto, plus having serious problems with the Islamic party, who been violently trying to dominate situations by removing all foreign items from the country and substituting everything with religion, made me creep in the corner and I started looking inside myself to see if I could find any comfort. We're talking about a place you could have gone to jail or even condemned to suffer under the whip in public by having a VHS with you! Jeans were also banned. What other choices would you have in a society that teaches yo RF