Prog-metallers Baroness are keeping up the spirits performing together while each of the members is alone in quarantine - they made a video of each member playing 'Tourniquet' from their own homes. The message of it is "no matter what situation we face, we are still able to enjoy friendship, family and community through something as simple as a song. Isolated but never alone". Similarly, members of Testament, Anthrax and Suicidal Tendencies have recorded-in-isolation video cover of 'YYZ' by Rush, while Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong released a cover of Prince-written Bangles hit 'Manic Monday', with the help of Bangles' own Susanna Hoffs.

Silence festival is the biggest music fest held in Kathmandu, Nepal, with 1,500 or so metal fans attending. It takes place in two courtyards of a small hotel and restaurant complex in Kathmandu. Festival director Flower KC said he will lose £25,000 on Silence, all covered by him and his friends. But, he has a higher goal: “The idea is guided by the idea that why should it be only mountaineers or hippies who come to Nepal? Why can’t we attract a different breed of people? My goal is to make Nepal a heavy metal destination".