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[News] Voice Of Baceprot announce debut North American tour in August 2023

Groundbreaking Indonesian all-girl Rock/Metal trio  Voice Of Baceport (VOB)  are excited to take the next big step in their journey and have announced details about their debut North American tour this fall including a performance at the  Head In the Clouds  festival at  Brookside At The Rose Bowl  in  Los Angeles  on  August 6 . The “ RETAS American Tour 2023 ” will kick off on  August 3  at  El Cid  in  Los Angeles  and see the girls headline 11 shows across the country including a stop on  August 13  at  Gramercy Theatre  in  NYC  before returning to the West Coast for their final stop on  August 19  in  San Diego . Tickets go on sale this  Friday, June 9  at  10 A.M. local time  at  https://www.voiceofbaceprot.com/tour .

Full dates are as follows:

RETAS American Tour 2023 Dates:

8/3 Los Angeles, CA – El Cid 8/5 Las Vegas, NV – Backstage Bar & Grill 8/6 Pasadena, CA – Head In The Clouds Festival 8/8 Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen 8/9 Detroit, MI – The Shelter 8/11 Pittsburgh, PA – Hard Rock Café 8/12 Boston, MA – The Middle East Downstairs 8/13 New York City, NY – Gramercy Theatre 8/15 Washington, DC – Union Stage 8/18 Oakland, CA – The New Parish 8/19 San Diego, CA – The Stage Room UCSD

“ This tour will mark our first visit to the US, and we are so excited! ” shared  VOB  collectively. “ We can’t wait to meet the Baladceprots over there, who we’ve only been able to exchange messages with on social media. We want to take pictures with the Hollywood sign and see what Madison Square Garden looks like up close! We also want to try a slice of the good ol’ American apple pie we’re used to seeing in films. ”

Voice Of Baceport  (pronounced ‘ bah-che-prot ’)— Marsya  (vocals & guitar),  Widi  (bass) and  Sitti  (drums)—will be touring in support of their anticipated debut album  RETAS  due  July 13  via  12WIRED  (see cover artwork pictured below). The band recently shared the album’s galvanizing single “ The Enemy Of Earth Is You .” Watch its animated lyric video  HERE .

The trio, who are all Muslims, sing in English, Bahasa Indonesia and Sundanese, and have faced opposition from conservative Muslims, in their hometown of  Garut, West Java  due to the unique and contradictory combination of performing Heavy Rock/Metal music and their wearing of the hijab on stage. They have turned heads with previously released singles “ School Revolution ,” “ God, Allow Me (Please) to Play Music ,” “ [NOT] PUBLIC PROPERTY ” and “ PMS ” which has garnered attention from renowned global media outlets including New York Times, NPR, BBC and The Guardian, in addition to praise from iconic Rock musicians including  Flea  of  Red Hot Chili Peppers ,  Tom Morello  of  Rage Against The Machine, Vernon Reid  of  Living Colour  and  Slash  who invited them to attend  Guns N’ Roses  show in Jakarta and met with them backstage. After several years of blood, sweat, and tears,  VOB  are set to unveil their greatest work yet with their debut  RETAS .

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Indonesian Rock Trio Voice of Baceprot Announce Debut North American Tour in August

Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 9 at 10 A.M. local time.

Groundbreaking Indonesian all-girl rock/metal trio VOICE OF BACEPROT (VOB) are excited to take the next big step in their journey and have announced details about their debut North American tour this fall including a performance at the Head In the Clouds festival at Brookside At The Rose Bowl in Los Angeles on August 6.

The “RETAS American Tour 2023” will kick off on August 3 at El Cid in Los Angeles and see the girls headline 11 shows across the country including a stop on August 13 at Gramercy Theatre in NYC before returning to the West Coast for their final stop on August 19 in San Diego. Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 9 at 10 A.M. local time here . Full dates are as follows:

“RETAS American Tour 2023” Dates:

8/3      Los Angeles, CA – El Cid

8/5      Las Vegas, NV - Backstage Bar & Grill

8/6      Pasadena, CA – Head In The Clouds Festival

8/8      Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen

8/9      Detroit, MI – The Shelter

8/11    Pittsburgh, PA – Hard Rock Café

8/12    Boston, MA – The Middle East Downstairs

8/13    New York City, NY – Gramercy Theatre

8/15    Washington, DC – Union Stage

8/18    Oakland, CA – The New Parish

8/19    San Diego, CA – The Stage Room UCSD 

“This tour will mark our first visit to the US, and we are so excited!” shared VOB collectively. “We can't wait to meet the Baladceprots over there, who we've only been able to exchange messages with on social media. We want to take pictures with the Hollywood sign and see what Madison Square Garden looks like up close! We also want to try a slice of the good ol' American apple pie we're used to seeing in films.”

VOICE OF BACEPROT (pronounced ‘bah-che-prot’)—Marsya (vocals & guitar), Widi (bass) and Sitti (drums)—will be touring in support of their anticipated debut album RETAS due July 13 via 12WIRED (see cover artwork pictured below). The band recently shared the album’s galvanizing single “The Enemy Of Earth Is You”— a call-to-action protest anthem against indifference to climate change which Louder Sound praised for its “infectious grooves and nimble-fingered riffs.”

The trio, who are all Muslims, sing in English, Bahasa Indonesia and Sundanese, and have faced opposition from conservative Muslims, in their hometown of Garut, West Java due to the unique and contradictory combination of performing heavy rock/metal music and their wearing of the hijab on stage.

They have turned heads with previously released singles “School Revolution,” “God, Allow Me (Please) to Play Music,” “[NOT] PUBLIC PROPERTY” and “PMS” which has garnered attention from renowned global media outlets including New York Times, NPR, BBC and The Guardian, in addition to praise from iconic rock musicians including Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine, Vernon Reid of Living Colour and Slash who invited them to attend Guns N’ Roses show in Jakarta and met with them backstage. After several years of blood, sweat, and tears, VOB are set to unveil their greatest work yet with their debut RETAS.

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Indonesian trio Voice of Baceprot generates high-voltage metal

The female trio, whose members formed the band as teenagers, has steadily gained national and international recognition for its genre-expanding music.

Voice of Baceprot , a genre-expanding Indonesian metal trio nearing the end of its first U.S. tour, opened its Tuesday night Union Stage performance with a surge of searing, restorative energy.

With a blood-pumping instrumental introduction, vocalist and guitarist Firda Marsya Kurnia (who goes by Marsya) and bassist Widi Rahmawati showcased their fast and savvy fingers, while drummer Euis Siti Aisyah (who goes by Sitti) set a sturdy rhythm that had brows collecting sweat in no time.

The trio increased the voltage once it hit “[Not] Public Property,” a forceful demand for bodily autonomy off its scorching debut album, “ Retas ,” its title taken from an Indonesian word for a body of igneous rocks that pierces other rocks.

“To us, ‘retas’ means to open or smash boundaries, much like our musical journey so far,” Marsya said in an NME interview this month. “We hear people questioning what genre our music falls into. It’s so easy to be fixated on a certain idea of metal and I think we shouldn’t get bogged down by all these boundaries, as long as the music is honest.”

The nine-track album, rife with nu-metal and heavy rock influences, rails against restrictive religious expectations in the soaring “God, Allow Me (Please) to Play Music” and a draining education system in the acidic “School Revolution.”

While growing up in West Java, the young women formed Voice of Baceprot (a Sundanese word for noisy) in 2014 with guidance from their school counselor . They became interested in metal after discovering System of a Down , eventually sharing covers online that attracted far-reaching attention.

Now in their 20s, the members of VOB have steadily gained national and international recognition, playing at a heavy-metal festival in Germany last year , finding a mentor in Indonesian jazz musician Barry Likumahuwa and garnering support from Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello .

Their musical journey has included plenty of challenges. Marsya has talked about the threats and physical violence the band has experienced from religious conservatives in their home province. Meanwhile, European and American media tend to overemphasize the supposed shock value of young hijab-wearing Muslim women rocking out.

VOB has channeled white-hot rage into blistering music, which erupted on the D.C. stage in a sustained molten flow. The trio centered the ongoing climate crisis with the razor-sharp “The Enemy of Earth Is You,” which takes aim at environmental violence.

“We are saddened by the fact that we are now surviving on an Earth that is constantly sick,” Marsya told the crowd. The band recently learned that the air quality in Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta, where they now live, has worsened .

Throughout the performance, Marsya’s finesse on her guitars matched the elasticity of her spry vocals, walloping ageism in “Age Oriented” and rallying for liberation in “PMS,” an acronym that translates as “wholly independent woman.”

The obvious chemistry among the three members made for exquisite instrumental explorations. Intriguingly, the impressive “Kawani” included recognizable Sundanese musical flourishes, which Marsya recently hinted might be a possible future direction for VOB.

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‘Music lets us be the real versions of ourselves’: Indonesian Muslim metalheads Voice of Baceprot

With sturdy riffs and Rage Against the Machine-style funk bass, the young female trio have accrued millions of listeners – and are devoted to calling out violence against women

W hen the members of all-female Indonesian metal trio Voice of Baceprot finished middle school in their teens, they were at a crossroads. Their parents wanted them to fall in line: the pressure was on to enter an arranged marriage and live traditional lives. “It was really hard to just say no to our parents when they told us to get married,” the band’s singer/guitarist Marsya (full name Firda Marsya Kurnia) remembers today. “But we are happy because of music. It lets us be the real versions of ourselves. Heavy metal gave us the courage to say: ‘No! I will play metal until I can’t any more!’”

Almost a decade later, that’s become the greatest decision of their lives: Voice of Baceprot (pronounced “bah-che-prot”) are one of metal’s biggest buzz bands. Although their debut album Retas doesn’t drop until July, they’ve already accrued viral fame, performances on national TV and slots at major metal festivals since forming as schoolgirls in 2014. Singles like God Allow Me (Please) to Play Music indulge 90s alt-metal nostalgia with their sturdy riffing and obviously Rage Against the Machine-inspired funk bass; Marsya’s lyrics about feminism, sexual assault and climate change give the songs an acute social conscience. Their success has won their parents over, and RATM guitarist Tom Morello is an outspoken fan, as he once told the band on a Zoom call. “He was great!” Marsya beams. “He was very, very humble and we talked like we were friends.”

Today it’s my turn to talk to the band via video call, and it’s easy to believe they’ll stick together for life. Although 23-year-old Marsya is by far the most verbose of the bunch, she, 23-year-old drummer Sitti (Euis Siti Aisyah) and 21-year-old bassist Widi Rahmawati are clearly best friends. They’re infectiously giggly together and share in-jokes in their native Sundanese. They’re a united front, with Marsya more frequently using “we” than “I”, and the three are now also roommates in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta – a far cry from where they were raised in the remote village of Singajaya, West Java.

“We grew up as farmers’ daughters, with all the cows and sheep,” Marsya laughs. “It’s very far from the city, but we loved the environment there and the fresh air.”

Voice of Baceprot describe their school days as “boring” (the first original song they released, 2018’s School Revolution, is about the failings of the education system). However, things got interesting when Marsya and Rahmawati discovered System of a Down on one of their teacher’s computers. “We fell in love!” Marsya says. “It was an adrenaline rush!”

That teacher, Ahba Erza, helped the pair learn guitar and bass, then they enlisted Sitti as their drummer. “She had a bad habit in class of hitting the table,” Marsya explains. Erza is still a guiding light for the band, video-calling them every day.

Indonesia has the most Muslims of any nation in the world, with approximately 209m people (87% of the population) there following Islam as of 2017. Although much of the country is moderate and there’s a fertile metal scene, West Java is a more conservative region. After Voice of Baceprot began playing in public, the power to one of their gigs was cut off, because Sitti’s drums were deemed too loud. Marsya was once attacked, a rock thrown at her head. Attached to it was a note telling her to stop playing “devil’s music”.

“It was truly scary,” she remembers, “but I loved music, so I didn’t care.” The band are still proud Muslims despite the bullying. “It’s not about the religion; it’s about the people around us,” Marsya says, she and her bandmates wearing hijabs during our call.

Erza started uploading the teenagers’ takes on Metallica, System of a Down and Red Hot Chili Peppers songs to YouTube. The covers became viral hits, despite the musicians behind them not having phones or internet access at the time. Today, the band have a thriving TikTok presence and 300,000 YouTube subscribers, with God Allow Me (Please) to Play Music boasting more than four million views. That online fame has translated into the real world: Voice of Baceprot played at Germany’s 75,000-capacity Wacken Open Air festival in 2022 and are about to tour the US.

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Marsya, Sitti and Rahmawati are using their platform to encourage change. “We care about the world around us,” explains Marsya. “Music is the most honest means of self-expression and has enormous power to change the environment.”

Their 2021 single (Not) Public Property decries abuse, was released on International Women’s Day and marked the start of a campaign to raise money for victims of sexual violence. “Indonesia seems to mirror the unfortunate reality faced by women and children in different parts of the world – they continue to suffer from violence, often hidden from public knowledge,” she says. “We remain committed to creating safe spaces and fighting against violence and sexual harassment wherever we are, including through the songs we put out.”

Beyond Retas (named after the Sundanese word for “breaking”, because the band feel it will be a long-awaited breakthrough) and the US tour, Voice of Baceprot don’t have any commercial goals. “The most important thing is that we stay solid as a band and continue to love one another,” Sitti says. However, changing the world along the way would be a wonderful bonus. “We just want the Earth to be a better place to live,” Marsya states. “For now, tomorrow and forever.”

Retas is out now on 12Wired.

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"I am so hungry!” laments Voice Of Baceprot bassist Widi. Leaning on her shoulder, drummer Sitti looks like she has no energy left to comment. Only singer Marsya keeps her cool, taking a few selfies with her phone. It’s the middle of Ramadan, and 30 minutes before Iftar, when the girls will be able to break their fast. Here in Jakarta, Indonesia, it falls at around 6pm. We’re sitting in a tiny coffee shop, inside a quiet suburban housing complex, and Ghost’s Ritual is playing at a low volume from an unseen speaker.

The members of Voice Of Baceprot, sitting side-by-side in their black hijab, black t-shirts and black trousers, look like millions of other cheerful women in their early 20s in Jakarta. However, they’re the only ones who have played at Wacken, and gained approval from the likes of Slash and Rage Against The Machine ’s Tom Morello. Forming at school in 2014, they went viral four years later with School Revolution – a song about pushing back against rules and advocating for students to follow their dreams. Last year, they received an AMI award – the Indonesian equivalent of the Grammys or the Brits – for Best Rock Group. While they initially made headlines for being God-fearing girls playing the Devil’s music, there’s much more to Voice Of Baceprot.

Firda Marsya Kurnia, Widi Rahmawati and Euis Sitti Aisyah met at a Madrasah Tsanawiyah – an Islamic equivalent to a junior high school – in the mountainous district of Singajaya in Garut Regency, West Java. Six hours’ drive from Jakarta, it’s so rural that “even the Regent [elected leader] of Garut didn’t know that Singajaya existed!” Marsya exclaims.

The name ‘Singajaya’ can be loosely translated into ‘The Winning Lion’. Legend has it that a magical half-warrior, half-lion being dwells in the terrain that surrounds the district, consisting of lush pine forests, farmland and tea plantations under the shadow of Mount Cikuray. The people in Singajaya hold on to their ethnic Sundanese culture tightly and are devout in their Islamic faith. It’s common for girls to wear headscarves outside the house, or inside the house when their parents have guests. So, wearing hijab in public is normal for Voice Of Baceprot – it’s a part of their outfit. 

The trio were born into the families of farmers who live a self- sufficient life of tending vegetable gardens and breeding goats. They mostly listened to dangdut, a genre with danceable tunes and lyrics about heartbreak. Despite being popular, it’s ironically perceived as being the music of the poor and tasteless, and the girls talk about their dangdut roots as a guilty pleasure.

“Besides listening to my mother’s dangdut collection, I also used to listen to what was popular at that time on TV, such as Cherrybelle and Coboy Junior,” Sitti says, referencing two teen bubblegum pop groups who were big in the 2010s. They discovered metal by chance, when they borrowed their drama teacher’s computer to do their homework and found his playlist, featuring System Of A Down, Slipknot and Metallica.

“We were instantly hooked by the songs – especially Toxicity by System Of A Down,” Widi says. “We told ourselves, ‘Wow, this is a breath of fresh air from all of that dangdut and Cherrybelle music!’”

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The metalhead drama teacher was Erza, whom they affectionately call Abah, a Sundanese word for ‘father’. A music aficionado, he introduced the girls to their respective instruments, and after forming Voice Of Baceprot –‘baceprot’, pronounced ‘bah-che-prot’, means ‘noisy’ in Sudanese – the girls would jam in an empty school storage room. Abah became their manager, booking shows around Garut where the band would play nu metal covers, videos of which went viral. “He has the basic skill to play various instruments, but he is mediocre in all of them!” Widi laughs. 

The first few years of Voice Of Baceprot were challenging. Playing music is still frowned upon in conservative Islamic society, especially if it’s Western rock music played by young girls. Instead of telling their parents they were having regular band practices, the trio lied and said they’d joined the Girl Scouts.

“My parents are the most conservative among them,” Widi says. “There was one time that I was grounded for one month, and they forbade me from playing music at all. Until Marsya came and told my parents that we did not do any sinful things while playing music.”

One morning, Marsya’s family woke up to discover her mother’s fresh produce store had been vandalised by unknown perpetrators, who left a note saying that bad things would happen if she did not stop playing music. Another time, her bedroom window was smeared with a painted message in Sudanese: ‘Maneh geulis ngan hanjakal umurna moal panjang’ (‘You are pretty but you won’t live long’).

“A person threw a stone at me when I was coming back from rehearsal. The stone was wrapped in paper with a written threat,” she says.

Many local ultra-conservative groups say music is haram – forbidden – according to their interpretation of Islamic teaching. This led to the girls getting expelled. “The headmaster said, ‘Music is haram’,” Marsya laughs. “Luckily, we got accepted at another school who saw our value and even embraced our status as musicians.”

In 2018, Voice Of Baceprot signed with Jakarta-based booking agency Amity Asia, which represents South East Asian talent across many genres, meaning they’re on the same roster as bands such as Bali’s punk rock trio Superman Is Dead and pop-jazz band Ten2Five. Due to bureaucracy that makes it difficult for civil servants such as teachers to resign, Abah Ezra stepped back as manager, but he’s still available whenever the girls need guidance. “It all started from Abah, really,” Marsya said. “We still call him every now and then.”

After graduating from high school, the band moved to Jakarta in 2020, where they now live together. They spend their days writing songs and having music lessons with high-profile mentors: Andyan Gorust from death metal band Hellcrust and Gusti Hendy from rock band GIGI for Sitti; Stevi Item from death metallers DeadSquad for Marsya; and jazz bass player Barry Likumahuwa for Widi. During 2021-2022, Voice Of Baceprot toured Europe, including a stop at Wacken. Along the way, they experienced many firsts, including seeing snow in Switzerland and meeting other supportive women in the metal scene.

“When we joined the panel at Wacken Open Air, ‘Let Women Do The Talking’, we met and chatted with Tracy Vera, president of Metal Blade Records, and Jenny Douglas [from 5B Artist Management], the tour manager of many of our favourite bands,” Widi says. They point to other all-girl bands that are rising in their country, such as The Dare, based on the Indonesian island of Lombok, and hardcore unit PEACH. “I also listened to the Bandung-based band, Bánanách, yesterday! They have great songs,” Marsya tells us. “It is so relieving to meet all of these incredible women in the music industry, who see us as friends, instead of seeing us as rivals or enemies!” she adds, mentioning that internalised misogyny is rampant among the women in the local, male-dominated metal scene.

The band no longer face negative comments from family and friends. “When we come home, we often play pretend that we are the rich aunties from the city,” Marsya giggles. “It is nice to be able to buy my parents stuff without having to worry about the price.” Marsya, aged 22 (Sitti is also 22, and Widi 21), says if they hadn’t found metal, and had stayed in Garut like many of their peers, they might already have kids. “Many of my friends are married with children now; some of them have even married and divorced several times over,” she says. “Music saved us from that kind of life."

There's 15 minutes left before Iftar, and Voice Of Baceprot's tea, bring over a selection of fish dumplings, donuts and rice cakes, which the girls stare at longingly. Their manager, Dani, also puts a plate of rice, fried fish and spicy chilli paste sambal in front of each of them. 

"These girls always have their rice for Iftar. These little snacks won't be enough," he tells Metal Hammer . "And the food has to be spicy. It became quite a problem when we toured Europe, as it was difficult to find rice dishes and proper sambal." Now they've impressed Europe, the band's ambition is to tour America. But first, they're releasing their debut album, RETAS . "We are tired of being called a cover band!" Sitti laughs.

On RETAS , an Indonesian word for 'the act of hacking' or 'disrupting', they're continuing to sing about social issues such as gender equality, religious tolerance and global warming, and have written lyrics in Bahasa Indonesia, Sudanese and English. Their latest single, The Enemy Of The Earth Is You , is about the environmental impact of tourism. West Java, the closest province to Jakarta, has seen an influx of holidaymakers who are sharing their experiences on Instagram and TikTok, resulting in certain rural destinations going viral. The local populations then struggle to cope with the extra people and, once the trend is over, the land is left littered with rubbish. In some cases, trees are cut down for tourist infrastructure, increasing the risk of avalanches, flooding and temperature rises. "Garut is now significantly warmer than when we were children," Marsya explains. "Also, many city dwellers go there for the scenery but at the expense of the local community. When the locals play in the rivers, it becomes a circus to the watchers. Once we went back to Garut, and we found some rivers that we used to play in as children had been turned into this Instagramable tourist bait." It doesn't bode well for the future of the planet. "We're farmers' daughters through and through," Marsya adds. Voice Of Baceprot are keen to use social media for activism, but their management team also recognise that it helps raise the band's profile. This afternoon, their content creator asks them to pose for photos with their Iftar food. However, with growing exposure to the outside world comes a growing pressure. "People would expect me to be magically skilful with my blastbeats after moving to Jakarta and having lessons with Andyan Gorust and Gusti Hendy, while in fact it's really hard!" Sitti says. "As for me, I often get unsolicited DMs from middle-aged men!" Marsya laments. She has 78,000 followers on Instagram, compared with Sittit's 67,000 and Widi's 52,000. "Many old, fat men with wives DM me with messages like, 'Hi, can I call you 'baby'? You remind me of my daughter.' Why can't you just take care of your daughter then?" The call for the dusk prayer finally arrives, and it's time to break the fast. After a short cheer and congratulating themselves for managing it, they say a quick prayer, sip from their tall glasses of ice-cold water, and attack the fried fish. Voice Of Baceprot have already achieved so much, but their journey's only just begun. Not only do they intend to carry on raising awareness of injustice; they want to become role models who can empower the next generation of women to dream big and make their own decisions. "I hope that what we achieve shows to the little girls in Garut that the world is really, really big, and that going out from your hometown is not scary," says Sitti. "And that it is OK to do what you want." Published in Metal Hammer #376

Gisela Swaragita is a journalist for Indonesian national newspaper,  The Jakarta Post , focusing on music, film, art, literature, travel, and other related topics. Born and raised in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Gisela started writing from an early age, and has strong connections across pop culture, media, and activism. She also plays bass, sings, and writes songs for dreampop band Seahoarse.

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Voice Of Baceprot announce first-ever European tour

The Fight Dream Believe European Tour 2021 kicks off in the Netherlands next month

Indonesian metal trio Voice Of Baceprot have announced their first European tour.

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The band will kick off its Fight Dream Believe European Tour 2021 in the Netherlands on November 28, before heading to Belgium and France, concluding it in Geneva, Switzerland on December 10.

The tour will support their latest single ‘God, Allow Me (Please) to Play Music’ , which arrived in August this year, per a press release.

Check out the band’s announcement below.

Europe! 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇫🇷 🇨🇭 We’re super excited to announce the dates to our upcoming Fight Dream Believe European Tour 2021! 🔥 Can’t wait to see and sing along with you all. Stay tuned for more ticketing info! pic.twitter.com/FwYbqhf3nA — Voice Of Baceprot (VOB) (@baceprotvoices) October 27, 2021

“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!” VOB drummer Sitti said.

Updates on the band’s Fight Dream Believe European Tour 2021 can be found here , while ticket information can be obtained at this link .

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The band’s Fight Dream Believe comes ahead of their performance at Singaporean music festival Baybeats on November 6.

Earlier this month, the trio dropped the music video for ‘God, Allow Me (Please) To Play Music’. The track is their second original single following 2018’s ‘School Revolution’, and follows after their recently-released live EP, ‘The Other Side of Metalism’.

See the full list of Voice of Baceprot’s 2021 Europe tour below:

NOVEMBER 2021 28 – Patronaat, Haarlem, NL 30 – Merleyn, Nijmegen, NL

DECEMBER 2021 1 – Vera, Groningen, NL 2 – Le Botanique, Brussels, BE 4 – Trans Musicales, Rennes, FR 8 – L’Entrepot, Arlon, BE 9 – Atelier Des Moles, Montbeliard, FR 10 – L’Uisine PTR, Geneve, CH

Voice Of Baceprot – which also consists of vocalist and guitarist Marsya, and bassist Widi – told NME in July that ‘God, Allow Me (Please) to Play Music’ was a reaction to long-held criticism against the band as hijab-wearing Muslim women who played rock music.

Owing to their unique image, the band has grabbed global headlines in recent years and gotten the nod from the likes of Tom Morello and Flea.

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Indonesia’s hijabi metal band Voice of Baceprot announces first-ever European tour

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. 

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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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