"The people in the '70s lived under a dictatorship in Brazil." "We had this dictatorship for almost 25 years." "During this dictatorship there was not a lot of freedom and it wasn't easy to access information." "The Brazilian dictatorship ended in 1985." "At that moment the bands were starting to release their first albums of Brazilian heavy metal." "And what that means is that heavy metal came along with democracy." "It may seem funny to you today, wanting to see Whitesnake." "It's a little ridiculous, but seeing Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions and Iron Maiden was overwhelming for a Brazilian in 1985." "You would see a multitude of people lose themselves." "It seemed like we were part of something bigger than us." "We felt like we were part of a big family of a religion." "And people started to imagine that this could be the music, ...and the soundtrack of the moment that Brazil became a new and free country." "Sepultura is our big triumph, our flag of Brazilian heavy metal." "In the past Brazil was not recognized as a country that had heavy metal but today it is recognized as a country of heavy metal because of Sepultura." "Talking about Sepultura outside of Brazil is like talking about Pelé or the Amazon." "Sepultura belongs to Brazil, it is very important." "I think Japanese metal fans' way of thinking is different from Western people's way of thinking." "For example, if you ask them if metal expresses their feelings of oppression and dissatisfaction most of them would probably say "No."" "In the West, if you're looking for rebellion or feel isolated in society you would be drawn to metal music." "This is not the case in Japan." "For example, fans at rock festivals are very courteous." "If they throw down their garbage, later they'll pick it up and perhaps bring it home with them." "If you're a metal fan you'll maintain your demonic image." "During the concert you will appear very demonic but once outside the concert you go back to your courteous self." "Usually I wear suits and a necktie that is my normal everyday life." "Listening to hard music like metal at home or at a concert changes my daily life dramatically." "It makes me feel happier and my feelings burst wide open." "Deep Purple arrived in Japan in August 1972." "Before that I thought that Deep Purple had an organized and structured way of playing." "But it wasn't like that." "They were bringing more and more improvisation into their performance." "The finale was crazy." "We had never seen that before." "Everyone rushed to the front of the Budokan stage." "Ritchie Blackmore was turning the guitar upside down." "That was the night when Deep Purple became a legend." "There is a current trend among men in their 50s they reunite with old band members from university or high school and play together." "And what they always play in the studio is "Highway Star."" "Everyone wants to be the guitarist and only play the solo." "But I heard the vocalists have a hard time because the key is too high." "KISS arrived a few years later." "When they came off the plane they were in full makeup and costume." "The problem was that they couldn't pass through immigration like this." "So they had to take the makeup off in order to pass through immigration." "Afterwards they re-applied all their makeup and changed back into their costumes." "Then they came out of immigration in full stage costume thousands of fans flooded them." "If you see the videos of when they arrived in the '70s you might faint." "The bang of the pyro and their use of fire was the biggest shock to us." "But wearing makeup on stage was pretty well accepted." "In Japan, because of the makeup KISS also reminds us of Kabuki theater." "Because of that I think a lot of Japanese people felt a certain intimacy with them." "In the past, Chinese youth just listened." "We listened to teachers, parents and accepted what we were told." "We didn't have our own independent thoughts and we didn't have freedom of speech." "Through the music we could begin to express ourselves and do what we want to do." "Not caring what other people think." "The older generation, including my parents, represent a traditional Chinese education which is Confucian and Communist education mixed together." "Chinese parents don't know how to face a boy who wants to have long hair get a tattoo and learn to play guitar." "The MIDI school was established in 1993." "Back then, China just opened up and many young people wanted to learn modern music." "At the school they learn all genres including metal and blues, as well as jazz and improvisation." "For twenty years, China was completely closed off culturally from the outside world." "In terms of music, Western rock had a history of 50 years." "We had to learn it in 10 years time." "80% of youngsters came to know metal from listening to a band called Tang Dynasty." "It was the first metal band in China, and an outstanding one." "You could find millions of these CDs from any genre of music jazz, blues, classical, metal music... everything." "My name is Nong Yong." "I am now 34 years old." "I have always been very interested in music since childhood, but in metal since 1998." "I was very shocked that music could be played in such a way." "So I organized a band and started to play metal music." "At that time, I was part of the first wave of people playing this type of music." "I possess a certain kind of emotion." "Whenever I face trials in my life, I feel very dark." "How do I express these dark feelings?" "I choose to use metal music." "The most important thing about metal is that it gives young people a tool to express their emotions in a very frank and direct way." "They long to express their own hatred and emotions." "I grew up during the tail end of the Chinese Cultural Revolution." "In my childhood, if youngsters had hatred for each other they would get together at the front gate of school and have these brutal fights." "So I think that metal has helped the Chinese government solve some social problems because youngsters can express their hatred and emotions through metal." "The music of Chinese metal groups reflects injustice, ...political inadequacy and corruption in government." "It also reflects the low standard of living, poverty and unfair treatment." "We have some themes about our disagreement with the capitalist countries as they always push Third World countries into a corner." "As you know, the majority of Indonesians are Muslims and because of this, they say that we are a "terrorist country,"" "...and we do not agree with or respect that statement." "Zionism is a system made by the Jews." "These Jewish people have this system, which is not good because they have this goal to destroy Islamic people." "Zionists must be destroyed." "They should be no more." "If necessary, Israel should be eliminated from the global map." "It is not the Jewish people that we are against only their system." "Muslims teach about peace." "Every religion teaches about peace." "They don't teach to make enemies, or to make war with others." "Those are the people who impose their will on others." "And they are not good people, no matter which religion they could be Muslims, Christians or whoever." "They are not good people in my opinion." "Muslims, ideally, should be like me or like the other people you see." "Very common." "They pray, they go to work." "Like me." "Normal." "They're the Muslims." "Metal is for my life." "Metal is for life." "Make relationships with friends." "Just hear the music and take the spirit." "It's only for life." "But religion is my relation particularly with my God." "When I got into the genre of black metal, I listened to mostly Norwegian black metal." "I loved them very much and really connected with them." "In retrospect they were singing about stories that were told to them mother, to mother, to mother handed down for generations." "But then we started to see with our own eyes, what they were writing about in their books, ...because we live it for real." "Here in Jerusalem, here in the Kottel and the entire region the three large religions:" "Islam, Judaism and Christianity are responsible for all these wars." "Always..." "Jews slaughtered Christians, Christians slaughtered Muslims, ...Muslims slaughtered the Jews and the cycle keeps repeating itself." "I believe if we don't do our army service, our country will be destroyed." "It's not like I enjoy it, but if we don't step forward we might get swallowed up." "That's it." "You just have to do it."