Immersing us immediately with a celestial cymbal and deep heavy metal guitar, rising rock trio, Voice of Baceprot from Garut in West Java, Indonesia have us completely hooked by their iconic new single, [NOT] PUBLIC PROPERTY!

The song is accompanied by a badass video, directed by Yosep Anggi Noen featuring the iconic trio performing on stage and in the streets.

The song opens with the vulnerable and profound lyrics, “God hold my tears when I see a girl crying, she lost her trust to the world and to the source of her love…”

The song narrative gives a strong message of empowerment, asserting boundaries on the consumption of women’s bodies by a sexist society, as the trio sings the hook, “our body is not, public property, we have no place for the dirty mind”

During the second half of 2021, Voice Of Baceprot went viral with God, Allow Me (Please) to Play Music and performed in eight cities across Europe, but [NOT] PUBLIC PROPERTY is the first song to be written by the members of VOB without the aid of their mentor and former teacher Abah Erza, who played a significant role in encouraging the formation of the band. The empowering anthem is also the trio’s contribution to International Women’s Day (which should be every day!)

The guitar solos are iconic and experiencing three women in hijabs performing feminist heavy metal is a catalyst to shift social norms, hence the vitality – and much needed in this day and age!

Marsya (vocals/guitar), Sitti (drums/vocals), and Widi (bass/vocals) have concerns about the violations they have witnessed of women’s rights around the world. Bodily autonomy and bodily integrity are rights central to being a whole, independent person, but ones that are so often cast aside – particularly in the cases of women. Escalating domestic violence, female circumcision, limiting of abortion rights, human trafficking, and pornographic exploitation are merely a few examples of the erosion of bodily autonomy in our society.

[NOT] PUBLIC PROPERTY embodies VOB’s holding space for their fans who are suffering these kinds of violations of their inalienable rights. With the amplification of oppression because of being quarantined from a global pandemic, it has been omnipresent in the news of late.

Danish producer and sound engineer Tue Madsen mixed [NOT] PUBLIC PROPERTY, he has worked with Meshuggah, Suicide Silence, Mnemic, and Sick Of It All. While the mastering was done by Howie Weinberg, an American audio mastering-engineer who is responsible for over 2,000 mastering credits, including 200+ certified Gold and Platinum albums by the RIAA, 20 Grammy Awards and several other honours. Howie was also credited as the master engineer for Nirvana’s “Nevermind” and Beastie Boys’ “Licensed To Ill.”

We have been immersing ourselves in the trio’s wider discography and have added [NOT] PUBLIC PROPERTY to our New Music Spotlight playlist!

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