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South China Morning Post
Shattering stereotypes: Indonesia’s all-women metal band Voice of Baceprot rocks Glastonbury
Sunday, 30 June 2024
The trio had to battle prejudices and family opposition to become the first Indonesian act to perform at the iconic UK festival ...
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The Star
Indonesia’s creative industry making waves as artists, musicians and developers shine globally
Sunday, 30 June 2024
JAKARTA: In an achievement for Indonesia’s creative industry, heavy metal band Voice of Baceprot (VoB) have become the country’s first music act to play at the prestigious Glastonbury Festival in ...
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NME
Glastonbury 2024: here are the biggest headlines from Friday
Saturday, 29 June 2024
Metal trio – and NME Cover stars – Voice of Baceprot became the first Indonesian band to play at Glastonbury, kicking off the day’s entertainment at the Woodsies stage. Read NME’s interview wi ...
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Metal Hammer
“As rip-snorting a set of Priest, Maiden and Sabbath-inspired metal as you’ll get at Glastonbury.” Voice of Baceprot bring the steel to Somerset’s summer spectacular
Sunday, 30 June 2024
With very little in the way of pure heavy metal at this year's Glastonbury, the sight of three teenage Indonesian girls being one the sole representatives could be looked at as an example of tokenism ...
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The Guardian
Glastonbury live: Friday with Dua Lipa, LCD Soundsystem, Idles and more – as it happened
Friday, 28 June 2024
Voice of Baceprot reviewed!
How best to open a festival? Some winsome, gently cooed folk ballads, to ease hungover punters into the day? That’s one option, but the schedulers at Woodsies have inste ...
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BBC
Indonesia’s hijab-wearing metalheads play Glastonbury
Friday, 28 June 2024
The three girls started making metal music at high school, but they never thought they could make history for Indonesia at Glastonbury. ...
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Aljazeera
Voice of Baceprot: Indonesia’s female metalheads get set for Glastonbury
Monday, 24 June 2024
The Indonesian female metal band Voice of Baceprot are worried about their upcoming performance at Glastonbury in the west of England, but not because they’ll be playing in front of thousands in one ...
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ABC
Indonesian Muslim metal band Voice of Baceprot take peaceful brand of thrash metal to Glastonbury
Thursday, 20 June 2024
Voice of Baceprot are a devoutly Muslim all-female thrash metal band hell-bent on shattering the genre's masculine image and misconceptions about Islam. ...
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Forbes
Meet The 30 Under 30 Stars And Athletes Breaking Stereotypes And Empowering Their Generation
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
From a hijab-wearing Indonesian metal band to singers, actors and athletes: Meet Asia’s rising stars who are shattering stereotypes and making waves. ...
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The New York Times
From a Heavy Metal Band in Hijabs, a Message of Girl Power
Wednesday, 1 May 2024
Voice of Baceprot has electrified audiences and built a large following in Indonesia. The group is also winning fans overseas. ...
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The Washington Post
Indonesian trio Voice of Baceprot generates high-voltage metal
Wednesday, 16 August 2023
The female trio, whose members formed the band as teenagers, has steadily gained national and international recognition for its genre-expanding music ...
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The Guardian
Interview – ‘Music lets us be the real versions of ourselves’: Indonesian Muslim metalheads Voice of Baceprot
Monday, 17 July 2023
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 ...
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The New York Times
In Indonesia, 3 Muslim Girls Fight for Their Right to Play Heavy Metal
Saturday, 2 September 2017
Voice of Baceprot, a rising metal band made up of three teenage girls, is challenging entrenched stereotypes about gender and religious ...
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South China Morning Post
Headbangers in hijabs: inside Indonesia’s heavy metal scene
Thursday, 24 August 2017
From hijab-wearing female metal band Voice of Baceprot to the Hammersonic music festival that includes prayer breaks, Indonesia’s metalheads show that ‘the devil’s music’ doesn’t have to cla ...
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The Guardian
The schoolgirl thrash metal band smashing stereotypes in Indonesia
Friday, 9 June 2017
Taking Rage Against the Machine and Slipknot as inspiration, three Muslim teenagers are blasting their way into the Asian music scene as Voice of Baceprot ...
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South China Morning Post
Indonesia’s hijab-wearing Muslim heavy metal group VoB smashes stereotypes
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
The all-girl group Voice of Baceprot may have won over fans in their hometown, but many others still believe their focus should be on religion, not Metallica ...
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Reuters
Indonesia’s hijab-wearing Muslim metal group challenges stereotypes
Monday, 29 May 2017
GARUT, Indonesia (Reuters) - With their heads covered with Islamic headscarves, the three members of the Indonesian band VoB ("Voice of Baceprot" or "Noisy Voice") do not look like your typical heavy ...
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