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This band were jailed for making heavy metal music. Now, they’re staging a comeback | Ents & Arts News
“If go again to Iran, handcuffs are ready for me,” states Nikan Khosravi, frontman of hefty metallic band Confess. “It could be 20 yrs, it could be execution – I you should not know. Likely again to Iran is certainly not an possibility.” In November 2015, Khosravi was arrested along with his bandmate Arash Ilkhani, pulled from the basic safety of his household, he says, by the country’s Innovative Guard, blindfolded and taken to the notorious Evin prison. Image: The band now play as a 5-piece with new customers from Norway, the place Khosravi and his bandmate Arash Ilkhani were offered asylum The pair spent three months in solitary confinement,…