WORMROT Arrested In Malaysia

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WORMROT Arrested In Malaysia



Singapore grindcore trio WORMROT was arrested by religious authorities in Malaysia in the early hours of New Year's Day.



According to a posting on the band's Tumblr page, the members of WORMROT were "chlling" at a local hotel after playing a New Year's Eve show in Kuala Lumpur when the Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (Selangor Islamic Religious Department) came into their room. Azean, the band's manager, writes, "After several questions and telling us that it is wrong for unmarried Muslim men and women to be in one room, they took our passports and we were taken to the vice squad station to give our statements and call someone to bail us.



"Five of us were taken into custody. Arif [vocals], Rasyid [guitars], Fit [drums], his girlfriend, who is Arif's little sister and myself. Rasyid's girlfriend was not taken into custody 'cause she's not Muslim and Fiaz [ASILENT bassist, with them at the time] was from another room.



"When we got out of the hotel to be escorted into the vice squad lorry, which already has some couples who were caught earlier than us, around 30-40 more people from JAIS, passerby and maybe some people from the media took pictures of us as though they had busted the most biggest crime for the night. We were taken to the Taman Muda vice squad station and had to sit on the floor to wait for the organizer, Emi, to come and bail us out. Emi arrived at 4 a.m. and he had talked to one of the JAIS staff. At around 4:15 a.m., we were taken to another vice squad station as there was no high-ranking officer to do up the reports. Again everyone had to be escorted into the lorry to be driven to Pandan Indah vice squad station. However, when we arrived there, we were still held in the lorry as the high-ranking staff from JAIS have not arrived. At around 5 a.m., when they finally arrived, we thought that we will be taken into the vice squad station for our statements. But… in the end… we were let off with just a warning. We were nearly fined $3000 MYR ($950 USD) per person if Emi did not call his lawyer up and we being Singaporeans. Plus we weren't doing any sexual intercourse when they entered our room.



"By the time Emi sent us back to our hotel, it was already 5:30 a.m. We were beyond exhausted as we had been awake since 5 a.m. the day before, performing and then the hotel drama."



WORMROT's latest album, "Dirge", came out in May 2011.

[Abzu]

Fuck backwards Islamist bullshit.

[droidspawn]

wormot



sucks for them

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

[quote name=";,,;"]Fuck backwards Islamist bullshit.[/quote]

[Devy]

:chlling:

[Devy]

No wonder they were arrested then.

[Devy]

"And you! What's your name? FIT!? 15 years!"

[Olden Polynice]

Wow I've never heard of that law before.What a pathetic bunch of cunts.

[Abzu]

[Verbal]

I found the last sentence amusing.