SEPULTURA Frontman Checks In From India

SEPULTURA frontman Derrick Green has posted the first entry in an ongoing tour diary covering the band's first-ever appearance in India. It reads as follows:

"Our journey is a long voyage starting from Sao Paulo, Brazil with a quick layover in London then straight to New Delhi.

"The expectations are running high for everyone because this will be our first time in India for all of us. I have always had a desire to come to India since I was a young boy so this happens to be a very important trip personally.

"We descend into New Delhi 11:30 at night and the city is covered in a soft blanket of smog. The only images that can be made out are the offset yellow street lights and the glowing white headlights of traffic coming to and leaving the airport.

"We step off the plane and the scent in the air is strong; it's the first thing that we all notice. It's not a bad scent that we are smelling, but a different one that we are not familiar with. It's a scent of intrigue, curiosity, the unknown.

"The airport is under construction but we are easily able to gather our possessions and make our way through customs with no questions or much of a delay.

"In the baggage area I see images on the wall of religious characters from the Hindu stories that I read so much about growing up. I start to realize that there will be so much to see in a small period of time but I'm ready for it.

"Our tour manager arrived a day early and was there awaiting us along with the the promoter who is putting on all three shows. He is friendly and seems to be relieved that we all arrived in one piece.

"As I take a look around, there seems to be a sense of organized confusion happening. People in motion moving their belongings along, people with signs awaiting the arrival of someone whom they do not know. The people who captured most of my attention were the people just sitting there and it didn't seem to matter where or what they were sitting on. No one needed a chair but it didn't matter to them they had a feeling of calmness about them. I felt very foreign pushing my belongings in a panic trying to find figure out where we were going as a group with all our bags and equipment; there was a complete contrast between us and them. It didn't bother me but it was obviously there and hard not to notice.

"Once we were set to go to the hotel we are quickly sucked into an insanely chaotic traffic flow. We are split up into four different cars and our racing in and out off a massive amount of traffic in the middle of the night. I'm awaiting the inevitable to happen as motorcycles and trucks whiz by all honking there horns trying to pass through. Where are all these people going in such a hurry and at this hour? There is not much to see on our ride to the hotel except for construction happening all around us on the road and the road side.

"We arrive at the hotel excited about the idea of having the day off and being able to sleep in and energize.

"I step out onto my balcony. It's 30 Celsius and it's 3:30 in the morning and we traveled over 20 hours.

"It feels good to be in India!"

In a recent interview with Romania's Metalhead TV, SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser stated about the band's current touring/recording plans, "Our intention, really, is to play as much as we can to prepare this band to start writing new material. So we're gonna start writing a new album at the end of the year, hopefully to release next year, sometime in the second [half of 2008]."

Back in March, SEPULTURA filmed the second video from their "Dante XXI" album, for the song "Ostia". The clip was shot at a studio in São Paulo prior to the band's departure for their European tour. During the following week, the video crew and the main actor shot the outdoor scenes in downtown São Paulo. The script, which adapts the story from the book "The Divine Comedy" to the modern days, was directed by Geraldo Moraes.

(Thanks: Markus Krispler / Sepularmy.net)