Voice of Baceprot (VoB) is well on their way to bring their unique brand of rock to the music, as the young hijab-wearing metal/rock trio from Garut, West Java is set to kick off their first European tour this coming November.
The trio, consisting of vocalist/guitarist Marsya, bassist Widi, and drummer Sitti, will embark on a tour titled Fight Dream Believe European Tour 2021 in support of their latest single, God, Allow Me (Please) to Play Music, which was released in mid-August.
VoB will be playing in several European countries, starting from Nov. 28 in Haarlem, the Netherlands, before heading off to other Dutch cities and then continuing their journey to Belgium and France. VoB will also make an appearance at Les Trans Musicales 2021 in Rennes, one of the longest-running and renowned music festivals in France, with the final leg of their tour scheduled for Geneva, Switzerland on Dec. 10.
“It has been a lifelong dream for us to perform abroad, especially in Europe. So, to be embarking on this tour is a dream come true for us,” Sitti said, as quoted in a release.
If you don’t want to miss out on VoB on their upcoming tour, tickets are available here.
Further ahead, VoB previously announced that they were invited to perform at Wacken Open Air music festival, one of the biggest hard rock and heavy metal festivals in the world, slated for summer next year. Taking place in the village of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, the trio will perform alongside the biggest bands in the genre such as Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, and Judas Priest.
Marsya, Widi, and Sitti first met when they were junior high school students in their hometown, a small village that is about a two-hour drive from Garut city. They chose “baceprot” as part of their band name as it means “noisy” in Sundanese, which they deemed representative of their type of music.
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VoB had been uploading song covers of their favorite bands, such as Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Metallica, and Slipknot from as early as 2015, which garnered attention from both local and international audiences — though the video of them performing their original song, The Enemy of Earth is You, gained them massive popularity in mid-2017.
The trio seems fully aware that a metal band consisting of young teenage women wearing hijabs might be an unusual thing, especially in Indonesia where the music world is associated with vices like alcohol, drugs, and sex. But they said they want to change people’s perceptions by showing them that women in hijabs can follow their beliefs and still rock hard.
VoB signed with a Jakarta-based booking agency and released their self-written debut single titled School Revolution in 2018. The rest, as they say, was history: VoB was personally invited by legendary guitarist Slash to meet him backstage when Guns N’ Roses held their concert in Jakarta that same year, and has recently gotten shout-outs from their idols, Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello and RHCP bassist Flea on social media, among others.
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