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Half a century of repressive military rule virtually silenced Myanmar�s heavy metal scene, but a growing coterie of die-hard metal-heads say the aggressive, rasping music gives them a unique release in a nation still struggling to come to terms with its own dark history A young head banger displays his tattoos last month at a heavy metal gig in Yangon. Moshing and sweating, the crowd of headbangers scream their angst into the sultry Yangon night, a rare glimpse of a defiant musical subculture now crashing into the open � though sex, drugs and religion remain off the song sheet. Half a century of repressive military rule virtually silenced Myanmar�s heavy metal scene and today its musicians are still shunned by most people in the conservative Buddhist country. But a growing coterie of die-hard metal-heads say the aggressive, rasping music gives them a unique release in a nation still struggling to come to terms with its own dark history. �Listening to metal is the fucking b...