Egypt union head quits after ‘satanic’ metal crackdown
Hany Shaker was criticised by much of Egypt's music community after attacking a concert by US metal band Inquisition as "a conspiracy to spread chaos and immorality"
News By IQ | 1 March 2016
Egyptian singer Hany Shaker has quit as head of the country’s musicians’ union following a media storm over his attempt to shut down a “satanic” metal concert in Cairo.
Shaker told TV host Sayed Ali the concert, by American band Inquisition and Dubai-based Perversion at the Sherazade nightclub on Friday 19 February, was part of a Western conspiracy to spread “chaos and immorality” among young Egyptians.
“The [Egyptian Musicians’] Syndicate foiled an attempt to hold a satanist concert in downtown…
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