WHAT DOES THE RISE OF THE TALIBAN MEAN FOR AFGHANISTAN’S METAL MUSICIANS?
2021, music in Afghanistan effectively became illegal. While no official decree had been passed, the return of Taliban rule after two decades of conflict precipitated mass panic. Instruments were buried or burned, advertisements featuring women were covered over and people attempted to evacuate en masse. All notions of progress were erased as the Taliban resumed control of Afghanistan after 20 years of conflict with the US, the central/south asian country itself having endured a four-decade cycle of
