Top 5 Most Influential Malaysian Metal Album of All Time : LANGSUYR - Occultus Mysticism / Eastern Cruelty. 3 comments

 TheBulletBelts takes a look at 5 most important and highly influential metal albums from Malaysia. Here is number 3.

Langsuir - Occultus Mysticism

LANGSUIR - Occultus Mysticism/Eastern Cruelty.

The pioneer of Malay influenced metal. What made this blackened death metal (in my honest opinion, come on, you guys even used corpse paints once) band got listed in this top 5 most influential metal records of all time according to TheBulletBelt was their originality. Amalgamating malay folk lores and shamanism in their lyrics, the potential of which was never really explored thoroughly at that point of time or since.

Langsuir - The Eastern Cruelty

When most Malaysian metalheads at that time were too occupied bashing false religion and dragons, these guys came out and talked about Pawangs (Malay withdoctor/shaman), Malay ghosts and local folklores and managed to kick all the goat worshippers in the nuts. Armed with a very distinctive dual lead guitar riffs arrangement intertwining harmonically courtesy of 2 riffmasters, Azmaniac and Bentara, and a very unique vocal delivery by Azlanthor, Occultus Mysticism stood out as one of the best professionally recorded demo at that time and the Eastern Cruelty EP without any shadow of a doubt paved the way for a new genre all together, which came out to be known today as Eastern Metal.

Top 5 Most Influential Malaysian Metal Album of All Time : SUFFERCATION - Days of Darkness. 1 comments

 TheBulletBelts takes a look at 5 most important and highly influential metal albums from Malaysia. Here is number 4.

SUFFERCATION - Days of Darkness.

This band definitely earned their place as one of the most influential band in Malaysia and their debut album, being the first death metal band to record a proper album back in the days, is without a doubt opened lots of eyes. They blew a lot of minds with this album. Heavy, aggressive and straigtforward old school (not at that time of course) death fucking metal. Everybody was like "wow you can actually record this type of music here". Everything was scary with this album. The cover depicted coffin carrying corpse and a bloodied terrifying looking logo. Nothing more death metal than that my friends. A lot of metal maniac nowadays admitted that they were actually unable to handle the heaviness of this album. It was too fucking heavy then and it remains one of heaviest metal record of all time.

Top 5 Most Influential Malaysian Metal Album of All Time : HERRIOT - Celestial Obelisk 2 comments

Besides being influenced, most of the time, musically and rarely, attitude wise by international heavy metal bands from all around the world, there were a few heavy metal records of diverse genre, which in my book, that can be considered as highly influential towards the development of the Malaysian heavy metal scene in general. It was these heavy metal masterpieces that, in my opinion, helped develop and mold the Malaysian heavy metal scene to be what it is today. Opinion may vary, but this is my list of top 5 most influential Malaysian heavy metal record. We start with number 5:

HERRIOT - Celestial Obelisk

Try and ask any Malaysian Metalcore bands nowadays what their influenced are, amongst all that crappy American new wave of heavy metal bands in the likes of Lamb of God, Avenged Sevenfold and what not, they will definitely mention Herriot, a local melodic death metal hero that may had been born in a wrong country, as one of their main influence. Celestial Obelisk EP was one of the most important heavy metal album in Malaysia, introducing Gothenberg melodic death metal to the local audience. As any In Flames, Dark Tranquility or Soilwork earlier albums, this 4 song EP was filled with dual guitar harmonies and innocent crunchy riffs scattered all over the place, while the vocals delivers a passionate and angry wrathful screaming growls. A hell of a release.