There's a shitload of tension. We're trying to break that fucking tension. We're the first all black, black metal band. We're at Ellis with Uprock support. I'm in Soweto, South Africa, a township in Johannesburg. I spent the last couple of days getting to know the black metal band, Demograph, Satanum, a group that's overcoming a dark path and changing the status quo. Right now, we're in Soweto in a case called Zola. Everybody in the band is from Soweto. It's a Soweto band. Soweto has its own vibe going. It's got this house music, R&B-ish vibe. And they don't really explore other things, you know? I think our biggest obstacle was getting over what the community would think of us. They think that if you do this, you guys are much satanism with your fucking God-pain to other things. That band like that came up out of Soweto and they're doing quite well for themselves. It's fantastic. We need more of that to happen. You know, breaking into this scene that's like, why people are only, that is hard getting our first performance citizenship. Will they take us seriously? Of the top of my head personally and my segment of the scene, I wouldn't be able to mention an old black metal band. Between 1948 and 1991, racial segregation between black and white-safed Africans was institutionalized by a policy known as apartheid. This created a system where black-safed Africans were forced to live outside of the city in areas known as townships like Soweto. apartheid's always a very touchy, touchy question in essay. I think with every country with segregation happened, it's a long road to recovery and all that. But when it just ended in that sense, I think the topics of music on Influenza Fire. Nelson Mandela became president after the first three elections in 1994. Ending apartheid and stop that for them. Those born after apartheid are known as Born Free. Born Free's, they are open to more music, you know. In the sense of, there was no, oh well, you're restricted to this area or to this type of music or to this culture. It's open. It's as if the borders opened. The world's borders opened. The musical borders opened. Trying to get more black people involved by playing here in Soweto. I cannot fuck it. We tired of going out there. Lauren Soweto and her punk fuck, baby. He just gets all this band to come and play. So that's how we actually make the metal and drop the scene grow in Soweto. I think one community sees that putting panic is something positive. You know, explode. You try to get wise people to come to Soweto more. And Soweto, that's very, very weird thing to see. Which is cool. It's working out. They fucking love it. We know some of the best gigs. Apartheid is only, not quite, just over 20 years ago. So there's a shitload of tension. You try to break that fucking tension. And once our country breaks that racial tension, then we can fucking move on. They won't call us white people for playing white people music. For more information, follow them on Facebook or go to Uprox.com. www.uprox.com