Blasphemous Attack 2004


Gig sulong di Ipoh untuk tahun 2004 telah berjaya dimanifestasikan pada 04/04/04 hampir jam 3 ptg di Tekno Dutt Disco. Band yang beraksi adalah Nefarious Azarak, Samartary, Bilharzia, Dark Nirrajim, Enthroned Falls & Ephemeral. Damokis, Sardotical Scoundrel & X Sahib nampaknya gagal menjelma pada sesi sulong ini. Entah kenapa, tak pulak diketahui.

Memang hebat dan menggegarkan. Crowd bagai menggila hedbanging terutamanya ketika Dark Nirrajim & Ephemeral mempamerkan rentak perang mereka. Band lain tidak ketinggalan hebatnya namun crowd agak kurang menyengat.

Nefarious Azarak bagi aku agak kurang menyengat sekalipun berjaya membawa cover Sodom-Remember The Fallen. Sound agak pecah dengan bass terlampau berdengung. Samartary dari Kedah memang betul-betul otai. Khasnya vox mereka. Malang sekali muzik dan vox mereka gagal berfungsi selari dan sekata. Jeritan voxnya terlalu nyaring dan begitu janggal dengan muzik mereka yang keras.

Bilharzia brutal death dari Ipoh agak sukar utk aku mengertikan bait kata oleh vokalisnya. Muzik mereka yang begitu padu memang sesuai untuk headbanging. Sekalipun basis mereka gagal menjelma namun diganti oleh gitaris utamanya yg bermain cukup baik di posisi itu. Dark Nirrajim band otai yang kebanyakkannya dibarisi puaka dari Sabah kecuali vox mereka (dr Perlis barangkali). Memang hebat band ni. Plauan muzik mereka jelas sekata dan seimbang. Black Doom Metal menjadi penunjuk haluan mereka. Crowd jelas begitu enjoy dengan band ini. Terutamanya bila diakhiri dengan opus klasik Perjanjian Syaitan memang begitu merasukkan crowd yang banging.

Enthroned Falls melodeath dr Ipoh. Macam biasa saja. Crowd tak begitu fanatik utk headbanging. Mungkin mereka menghayati melodi band ini yang mengasyikkan barangkali. Sayang juga vox mereka agak tenggelam dengan kepaduan muzik mereka. Mungkin juga masalah microph tak dilaraskan sesuai dengan tahap muzik yg dimainkan. Band terakhir Ephemeral nampaknya berjaya menarik kembali crowd ke depan utk headbanging. Crowd semakin menggila bila cover BPR dibawakan. Voxnya macam biasa (vox death) payah nak paham. Muzik mereka bolehlah tahan.

Begitulah kesudahannya gig sulong di Ipoh. Kesimpulannya semua band berjaya memukaukan crowd yg hadir dengan sentuhan ekstrim metal istimewa dari mereka. Nampaknya kepuasan jelas terpancar di muka crowd yg hadir setelah sekian lama gig besar sebegini jarang dijelmakan di Ipoh ini. Semoga akan ada lagi gig-gig hebat di masa depan.

What Is Black Metal?


In the beginning there was Venom. Then it exploded. In effect, this section is not as comprehensive as it should be. But one issue has to be addressed: There is not one generally accepted definition of Black Metal. Clearly, Venom was the first Black Metal band - they coined the term - and they played a (for its time) fast and raw form of Metal and sung about Satan & evil. Then came other bands who both played and sung about similar stuff, and everyone agreed that they were Black Metal too. But what about bands who just "sing about Satan", or just play this kind of music? It may not agree with what Venom says about what they intended long ago, but we here define Black Metal bands as bands who do both.

Then there is the question of how much you really should label as Black Metal, musically. Many of today's bands you will find in this list do not sound much like Venom once did. Their music probably sounds more like what some of the retainers of the Black Metal throne ended up playing. That is hereby defined as "good enough". And at last, this list includes a growing number of bands who have certainly left the original lyrical scope (or never even touched it). The majority of these happen to be Scandinavian and sing about Vikings and old Norse myths, but others focus on other pagan peoples and myths.

Since these bands belong to the same scenes as the modern Black Metal bands and they in a way head for a similar atmosphere, they are included too. You may notice that various affiliations of some of the bands are listed. This is because some people may think that Nazis are nasty people and don't want to accidentally buy their albums, or that Church of Satan members are wimps, a disgrace to the scene, and should be brutally sodomized.

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