Syria Musicians Seek Islamist Leadership

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Syria's musicians await their future under HTS rule

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Syria 's musicians are warily eyeing the Islamist rebel leadership and hoping to build on hard-won achievements made during the almost 14-year civil war.

The Assad regime was less tolerant with the heavy metal rockers who started up underground bands in the late 1990s and early 2000s .

Now, its members are preparing to approach a government led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham , or HTS .

Syria 's music scene revived and thrived during the civil war - now it faces a new and unexpected test.

The culture of the Islamist rebels "is religious songs and that's it," says Green .

"We are trying to organise ourselves before they start looking at culture," he says.

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