SEPULTURA frontman Derrick Green has issued a new update from India:

"I awoke very early at least for me 9:00 am and descended downstairs for breakfast. I was hungry and I was looking forward to having something typical for an Indian breakfast. I proceeded experimenting with various spicy dishes and continued going back for more, it was all extremely delicious.

I was anxious to see New Delhi and only a few people who were up and ready to go. I called Jean because I know that he mentioned the day before that he wanted to go anywhere at anytime. Caio, our lighting engineer, and his brother Albert, who is filming our entire trip in India, were also ready to go so we set out to place called Qutub Minar.

The Qutub Minar is located in a small village called Mehrauli in South Delhi. It was built by Qutub-ud-din Aybak of the Slave Dynasty, who took possession of Delhi in 1206. The Qutub Minar is also significant for what it represents in the history of Indian culture. It was the first monument built by a Muslim ruler in India. It was the beginning of a new style of art and architecture that came to be known as the Indo-Islamic style.

Our tour guide that accompanied us was very knowledgeable and was rabbling off statistics and facts all the way to the monument.

As soon as we stepped out of the car there was a person who knew who we were and began to explain how he visited Belo Horizonte in Brazil which is the birthplace of Sepultura. It was such a bizarre situation that this guy out of over billion people living in India happen to be where we were at the same time. We took photos with him and he expressed his enthusiasm about the show that we are going to play tomorrow.

I couldn't help but notice on our way into the area that many people were staring and were intrigued with my appearance. I asked our guide why and he said because of my stretched ears, tattoos, hair, and size. I was taking pictures of people and they were taking pictures of me so it all worked out well and ended up being very amusing.

The Qutab Minar was magnificent in sight and has such a great presences of power and history surrounding it. We spend our time taking photos and talking to strangers that were curious to know where we were from.

Once we were content with our visit with the Qutab Minar our guide arranged for us to visit a shop in the area that he knew about where we could by 'cheap' Indian crafts. We entered the store and were immediately bombarded by sales people who were relentless in trying to get us to buy anything.

I ended up buying one item and then we were off to the press conference that they had planned for us.

The press conference was filled with energy and you could tell that people had been waiting for this for a very long time.

Once this was over we all ended up at a market place where we were bombarded with people trying to get us to purchase there items. At the same time there were the street people doing the same thing non-stop. 'No' does not mean 'no' here — the desperation was tiring after awhile and the street vendors were even tired of the street people trying to take there business. Every second there were many young kids and who were sometimes accompanied by their parents were asking for money from the time we arrived 'till we left. I was exhausted mentally by the whole situation. Money was definitely not the solution to these people's problems but is there a solution that exists? I think it's something that everyone in the world should think about, people shouldn't have to live this way but they do unfortunately.

At the end of the day I felt a little bit of a cultural shock that was probably needed in my life. I got to bed with all the images of the day racing through my head.

The show must go on."