Rants: Books On Malay Heavy Metal? 4 comments

1- How many books you think we have out there which deals with the Malaysian heavy bands or scene in general? None. Zilch. Nada. Why? Because Malaysians lack the interest to put things on record. "On record" here refers to readable materials i.e. books. Which is kinda pathetic and sad at the same time.

2- There are of course a few pages dedicated to Malaysian heavy metal in some magazines here and there but come on. 30 years of heavy metal in a couple of glossy pages, which most of the time, were not even written by heavy metal enthusiasts, is not enough. Mr. Abdul Aziz Ittar, you sir, need to do something about this.

3- Man, the history of Malaysian heavy metal is indeed a colorful and dramatic one and i bet that it would easily fit at least in a few hundred pages worth of readable materials. Why we Malaysians does not find it necessary to record it all in a proper book remains a mystery to me. Maybe due to the lack of interest to read.

4- If legendary Malaysian bands in the likes of Search, Wings and Cromok or even Sil Khannaz were formed in the United States, I bet there would be at least 4 or 5 books detailing the history of the band. Metallica alone have at least 4. The Beatles got hundreds of them. I believe that it will definitely sell at least couple of thousand copies if not more.

5- I found out just recently that Sweet Charity, a (considered) local hard rock band (credited as the first rock band in Malaysia/Singapore) released an autobiography about themselves. I think it is a good start. Even when Sil Khannaz (local Death Metal/Progressive Death Metal band) chose to release a rockumentary detailing their colorful history, I was in awe and made it a mission to go and buy the CD. And I did just that.

6- Dont you think its time we start recording some history of our own and bring the scene to a whole new level? 

Download: Sepultura - Kairos [2011] no comments

1- Penulis masih lagi belum sembuh daripada demam akibat daripada keterkejutan melampau yang dialami gara gara keepic failan album baru Morbid Angel, Illud Divinum Insanus. Ternyata sangat mengecewakan malah berkemungkinan boleh sahaja diletakkan didalam kumpulan album album metal yang paling mengecewakan untuk tahun 2011 sebaris dengan album-album seperti... maaf tiada contoh yang boleh diberikan kerana tidak ada album album lain yang mengecewakan seperti kecewanya penulis dengan album baru Morbid Angel ini.

2- Lagenda thrash metal Brazil, Sepultura sudahpun menerbitkan album terbaru mereka yang diberi judul Kairos. Setakat 2 buah lagu yang sudah boleh didengar melalui youtube, lagu Kairos dan Just One Fix hasil saduran daripada kumpulan Industrial, Ministry, penulis boleh menyimpulkan bahawa album ini sedikit old school sepertimana lagu-lagu mereka dari era Roots. yang pasti, ianya menampilkan bunyi gitar yang berat dan permainan drum yang groovy.

3- Jika anda menginginkan Sepultura kembali dengan lagu-lagu seperti Beneath The Remains, penulis mencadangkan agar anda mendengar sahaja album baru Cavalera Conspiracy. Namun anda boleh memberi peluang pada album baru Sepultura ini untuk tenggelam kedalam telinga anda terlebih dahulu sebelum menolaknya mentah-mentah. Penulis juga tertarik dengan lukisan muka depan album ini yang sangat old school lantas menjadikan ianya agak cool dan cvlt.

4- Muat turun album baru Sepultura DISINI.

Rants: Rock 2 & Morbid Angel. 2 comments

1- As I have been informed, the good people who previously brought you the movie, Rock (a very awesome movie about a fictionalized 80's rock group called Rimba Bara starring Khir Rahman and Que Haidar) will be filming Rock 2 revolving around the history of a a non fictionalized local rock group called Search. I cant fucking wait.

2- Morbid Angel, he pioneer of what is known now as the Florida Death Metal sound, has  recently unleashed their latest album, Illud Divinum Insanus and it sucked big time. SUCKED. BIG TIME. And this is Morbid Angel that we are talking about. Is this the same band that released Altars of Madness and Covenant back in the late 80s and early 90's? What the fuck? Azagthoth tried to defend the album by saying that Morbid Angel was infact tried to venture into something new with Illud Divinum Insanus. Something new my malay ass. There is nothing new with adding a few loops of 8 repetitive bars of a song and drum machines. Marilyn Manson, motherfuckers, Marilyn fucking Manson. Do not buy Illud Divinum Insanus. Unless you are a fan of Earth Wind & Fire.

3- Rest in peace Morbid Angel.