Rants: Of Silent Death, Hidden Silence, Tandus, Langsuyr and Karl Cromok. 2 comments

1- The first draft I wrote for this entry was in Malay but I stopped halfway because it was just too awkward, well at least for me. So english it is. I just got done reading some of my friends blogs. One of my personal favorite being Dissecting The Euphony. Why? For the new and upcoming release feature that they put up in their sidebar. 

2- Silent Death is finally ready to release their long awaited album, The Silent Kiss of Death. The other night I got an SMS informing me that they have already opened the floor for the fans to prebook the album. Throw in some extra cash, you will get a nice t-shirt along with the CD. I have listened to the excerpts of some of the new songs by the band on youtube but I guess it is still too early to judge.

3- Hidden Silence, one of the best melodic death metal band from our shore, according to DtE, will be releasing a follow up to their infamous debut, Black Hearted Spiritual and I believe this upcoming release will be called Into The Childs Nightmare. I am full of expectations with this band and this new release due to their awesome debut which got positive reviews from all over the place. Certainly the guys in Hidden Silence got ears for wonderful and exciting melody lines. Cant fucking wait!

4- Tandus? The Thrash masters from Johor? A new album? Fuck yeah. I can still remember buying their debut EP, Logam Maut, back in the mid 90's. Hopefully the sound on this one will at least be more polished, mix and master wise, then the one they got in Logam Maut, if you know what I mean. Logam Maut despite of its awesomeness was way too raw to my ears. Maybe it was intentional, I dont know, but man, Tandus thrashed my earholes like nobody's business.

5- Wait a second, Ajizz is back in Langsuyr? Are you serious DtE? Wow man. Fucking awesome. I have always wondered why he left the band in the first place but thats none of my business to begin with. But him being back in the folds of Langsuyr is definitely an exciting feat. Now if somebody out there could just try and convince Dr.Ben to rejoin the band and get the legendary Occultus Mysticism and Eastern Cruelty line up to release one more Eastern Cruelty-esque record, I'll die a happy man. Haha.

6- The new release from Karl Cromok is already in store now. Shred It Back was the title of the release. I have given a go to the single called Petanda which featured Amy from the legendary hard rock band Search handling the vocals, and the verdict was lukewarm at best, but Karl's trademark melodic solo was there thus the sole saving grace for the song. The chorus lines were annoyingly repetitive. Force feeding a melody will only work if you got a good and strong vocal melody. And in Petanda's unfortunate case, the melody was weak besides the delivery felt insincere. Oh well.

Rants: TheBulletBelt In Malay? 2 comments

r1- I guess it has been a custom for me to start a new post with "It Has Been A While" nowadays. Admittedly, I've neglected this blog (and blogging activities altogether) for quite some time now. I noticed that there are actually people who follows TheBulletBelt and frequently visits this blog from time to time in the look out for the latest Malaysian heavy metal news. Sorry man. I'm just too fucking busy.

2- Well, on the hand, it's MySpace fault man. You know, with their new not that much of a user friendly template that made my surfing and browsing a hell of an experience (not in a good way), I sorta gave up looking for new bands to promote. It's just too fucking agonizing. Fuck MySpace. While I'm at it, fuck Facebook too for not providing a better platform for bands to promote their music. But from another point of view, what is it there to promote? Young metalcore asswipes kept on releasing albums, the local "real" metalbands kept on waiting for another Metalcamp Gig to attend without releasing any single shit. Come on, step up to the fucking plate will ya. Thank God for Humiliation.

3- I had been contemplating for quite sometime now about changing the language of this blog. I dont know. Should I start posting in Bahasa or should I keep the current medium? When I started this blog back in 2009, my one and only objective was to promote Malaysian bands to a whole new international crowd. I dont know man, is it me or the scene just kinda died out. Hey lazy fuckers, release something man. A demo, a rehearsal tape like in the good ol' days, you know, what ever. Just release something. Wormrot is fucking conquering Europe and Malaysian bands are still playing jam fucking sessions. Fuck!

Rants: Whats New Pussycats? 1 comments

1- Ideologies can sometimes be sickening. No shit. In Malaysia, if you were not segregated by partisan political allegiance, you will definitely separated by pseudo modern philosophical ideologies. Come on man. Do not let petty fights on ideologies ruin your God given rights to listen to some good ol' metal.

2- I never associated myself with any ideologies and I dont really give a fuck about others. If you are either an elite anarcho band or a fuckin Nazi band, if your music is good, your music is good. End of story. Almost all traditional black metal freaks out there worshiped fuckin Burzum. Burzum's 2010 "Belus" album was supposed to be called "The White God". Go fuckin figure. But we still feasted our ears with Burzum. Why? Because Burzum fuckin rock! It was a fuckin' awesome band. Fuck all these stupid ideologies and fuck all those politically correct assholes out there. Go listen to some fuckin Burzum.

3- Unless these bands try to be some fascist assholes and force their stupid ideologies onto me, only then this middle finger of mine shall be shown. I am not interested with your stupid ideologies and you can go fuck yourself.