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It's an especially pertinent issue in Indonesia, where illegal groundwater depletion, shorter rainy seasons and rising sea levels have already begun to affect their hometown: "Back in the village it's very hard for us to get clean water," Kurnia elaborates, referencing their rural hometown of Garut in West Java. "We feel that we actually already started to feel the impact of the lack of environmental awareness," Kurnia says. Original "The Enemy of Earth Is You" is a fiery response to climate change, a topic of particular interest for the young band. Like their heroes in RATM and SOAD, Voice of Baceprot have an unabashedly political agenda, updated for the crises of the next generation. "Without having to flog our appearance but also not abandoning our identity."
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"We want to keep pushing forward by placing musicality above all else," they continued.
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"We were wondering how someone could continue to make music to the point of being so popular yet still consistently hide their faces," the band wrote in a statement when they released their rendition of "Before I Forget." For Voice of Baceprot, there is an obvious intrigue to transcending personal appearances. Their love of Slipknot, whose raging nu-metal clearly inspired early Voice of Baceprot originals, also stems from the masked Iowans' shared desire to cover up. "Metal music is the perfect genre for us to express ourselves," Rahmawati adds. They chose the four covers on the five-track release - RATM's "Testify," System of a Down's "I-E-A-I-A-I-O," One Minute Silence's "I Wear My Skin" and the aforementioned "Before I Forget" - because "those were the songs that gave us such a big impact throughout our musical journey over the past seven years," Kurnia tells us through a translator. On their new EP, The Other Side of Metalism (Live Session), Voice of Baceprot pay tribute to the groups that inspired them with a mixture of covers and original music. Video of Voice of Baceprot - God, Allow Me (Please) To Play Music (Official Music Video) Voice of Baceprot are reclaiming their narrative as female Muslim metalheads, winning over and inspiring fans around the world - including current and former members of Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine and Red Hot Chili Peppers - in the process. Indeed, one of their singles, "God Allow Me (Please) to Play Music," is a direct response to critics who paint them as sinful heretics. The band could have been scared into silence instead, Kurnia, Rahmawati and Aisyah have bravely used their notoriety as a platform. Those same qualities also made them a frequent target for violent harassment: Driving home from the studio one night, the three were pelted with rocks covered in profanities. But from the beginning, their glowing, widespread coverage was predicated on their sex, young age and outwardly modest appearance as Muslim women - the first sentence of a New York Times profile describes their hijabs and their apparent meekness, before any discussion of their music. The band, who perform wearing hijabs in accordance with their Muslim faith, came to prominence in 2017 after they shared soon-to-go-viral covers of Rage Against the Machine, Slipknot and Pearl Jam online. The rise of Voice of Baceprot - singer-guitarist Firdda Marsya Kurnia, bassist Widi Rahmawati and drummer Euis Siti Aisyah - has been swift but not easy. In late July, the three members of the Indonesian metal group voice of Baceprot shared a live cover of Slipknot's blistering 2004 song "Before I Forget." Watching the band's impassioned, un-self-conscious playthrough, it's hard to imagine that the young women once regularly received death threats for their performances.