Nepal’s police used to pick up metal fans and cut their hair or jail them. Our writer hits the rarefied air of KathmanduWhen Ugra Karma made the first-ever Nepali metal recording, they didn’t intend to start a subculture. We brought one of our friends’ father’s office printers to my home, made our own design and printed it.” The Nepali metal underground was born. For years, the police would pick up metal fans and cut off their long hair. Gene fucking Hoglan!”After night falls, Testament take to the stage, the biggest metal band ever to have come to Nepal.

Source: The Guardian January 12, 2020 15:00 UTC