And in the clip, the frontman insists he's not making a political statement, he just likes "interesting figures." Blythe recently praised Indonesia's new metal-loving president Joko Widodo saying: "This is the only president in the world with whom you can sit down and argue about which Slayer album is the best."

As The Palaces Burn began as a study on musical influences on different cultures, but those plans were scrapped when Blythe was arrested and charged with murder in 2012 after the death of 19-year-old fan Daniel Nosek in the Czech Republic.