NEW INTERVIEW: Our first interview with CONJURING (Balikpapan Slamming Brutal Death Metal), 4 December 2020.

Kieran James1: Hai, bisakah kamu menceritakan sejarah awal terbentuknya band kalian hingga sekarang? 

Jalio:  kami terbentuk pada pertengahan tahun 2019 dengan nama awal INFECTED NOURISHMENT dengan formasi awal yaitu Jalio (vokal), Ryo (drum), Dinto (gitar) dan Darrell (bass) ...  kami memainkan gaya musik slamming death metal yang ter-influence oleh band mancanegara seperti VULVECTOMY & AMAZING GRAVE. 

Dikarenakan sang basis disibukkan dengan urusan keluarga, dan sang drummer yang memilih untuk meneruskan usahanya, kami berusaha untuk mencari penggantinya sampai kami menemukan Wahyu untuk mengisi posisi drum dan band ini berjalan hanya dengan 3 orang saja. dengan formasi ini pada tanggal 21 Agustus 2020 kemarin kami baru saja merilis sebuah promo cd yang berisikan 3 trek (1 intro, 2 lagu) via Sadistic Production (Garut). Dan kami juga ikut berpartisipasi di dalam album kompilasi yang dirilis oleh teman kami dari Surabaya yaitu "Kompilasi Mewabah". Saat ini kami sedang menggarap materi baru untuk debut album kami yang direncanakan akan rilis tahun 2021 nanti.

Dinto: waktu itu jalio nge dm saya bilang “nda pengen maen metal metalan kah mas? jangan maen grunge trus....”

KJ2: Bagaimana respon orang-orang dengan mini album/album/demo band Kamu?

Jalio: banyak respon positif yang kami dapat dari para metalhead di daerah kami dan di luar daerah kami. 

Dinto: ada yg ngebacot ada yg heboh ada yg nda urus.

KJ3: Band apa yang paling berpengaruh bagi Kalian dalam bermain musik?

Jalio: acranius, fuck your depression, korpse, extermination dismemberment, traumatomy, gorevent, waking the cadaver, disfigurement of flesh, vulvectomy, amazing grave.

Dint : NTRL.

Wahyu: the beatles.

KJ4: Apa rencana kedepan  kalian bersama band?

Jalio:  seperti yang sudah dijelaskan tadi, kami akan berencana merilis debut album kami tahun depan dan ikut serta berpartisipasi di dunia underground khususnya di genre death metal. 

KJ5: Apakah lagu-lagu yang kalian buat menggunakan Bahasa Inggris dan Indonesia. 

Jalio: ya, saya menggunakan 2 bahasa itu dalam menulis lirik lagu. 

KJ6: Apa yang kalian ceritakan dalam lirik-lirik yang kalian buat?

Jalio: kematian, kelainan seksual, kekejaman dalam dunia medis, depresi/keputusasaan ... yang jelas dalam debut album nanti tiap lagu mempunyai tema yang berbeda beda

KJ7: Mengapa kalian semua suka memainkan musik death-metal?

Jalio: ada keunikan tersendiri dalam genre ini, terutama slamming, seperti tekhnik vokal, gitar, sampai drumnya yang unik dan belum pernah saya temui di jenis musik lain. 

KJ8: Kapan pertama kali kamu menjadi fans band metal?

Jalio: awal mulai seneng dengerin sampai explore sendiri itu sejak SMP sih

Wahyu: Umur 13.

KJ9: Apa yang Kamu katakan kepada orang-orang yang bertanya mengapa Kamu memainkan musik bergaya barat?

Jalio: idealis! dan di genre ini juga kami bisa mengenal dan dikenal oleh sesama kalangan bawah tanah 

KJ10: Apakah para istri dan kekasih para personil kalian mendukung apa yang kalian kerjakan?

Jalio: ya, sangat mendukung sekali hhe

Dinto: woiya donk support klo ada duitnya doank baru di support klo nda ada duit boro boro support !!! 

Wahyu: yo mesti tah.

KJ11: Apakah hal-hal yang terbaik dan terburuk tentang komunitas di kota kalian? 

Dinto: terbaik: equality, respect, cepat tanggap urusan makan...terburuk: suka mabok, suka ngebacotin band orang, suka salip menyalip urusan perempuan, klo nda gratis nda support....

Wahyu: Terbaik : mampu bertahan Terburuk : êgosentrisme buta.

KJ12: Ada pesan untuk kawan kawan? 

Dinto: HAIL JAMET KIRUT KIRUT!!!

Wahyu: Rajin bekerja dan hormat orang tua.

E-mail: conjuringslamdeathmetal@gmail.com

NEW INTERVIEW: Our first interview with Maya from Mortality (Bandung Black/Death Metal), 16 May 2019.

Our first interview with MORTALITY

AT: Bandung.

Date: Thursday, 16 May 2019.

By: Kieran James and Popo Demons Damn.

Translation by: Popo Demons Damn.

MORTALITY line-up: Balung (vocals), Maya (guitar), Biye (bass), and Andriz (drums).

Popo Demons Damn: Tell us about the process for the new album.

Maya (guitarist): We started the process for this album in 2016. We had a break for a year (2017) because I was pregnant. And then we continued in 2018. At 2019 we finished the album and released it on 30 April. At the end of last year we had finished the album but we still had not signed with any record label. We were still selecting a label to sign with.

In January 2019 we signed with Sadist Records from Bali and Yogya. This album has nine songs. Two of the songs are remix songs from the first album.

Kieran James: Why did you do remix songs from the first album?

Maya: We changed the sound style and the guitar section. We tried to change it to the New Mortality style. The band makes New Mortality with a style which is more Black/Death. We call it Black/Death  but the reviews from friends and buyers call it “Death Metal with scream vocals.” The vocal style sounds more Black Metal but the music sounds more Death Metal. The people call it the New Mortality because it sounds very different to the Mortality of before - before it was Black Metal. Some websites said the same thing. The songs sound more like DM than BM. People feel that it is very different to Mortality before.

Popo Demons Damn: I knew Mortality since I was in high-school. Sometimes they used blood in the stage. I thought that this was interesting stage-act. Now we can’t find any BM band which does this at the show. What do you think, should BM bands do blood shower on-stage?

Maya: We don’t use blood now because, since 2005 until 2013, we were inactive. Then the drummer Andriz and I joined and the stage-act changed. We make a new vision and concept now for the music and the stage-act. For the album, we really changed the concept to being New Mortality.

KJ: Are you happy with the sound of the album and the packaging?

Maya: We are very satisfied with the sound and the packaging for the album. After 15 years we finally released the second album. It took four years between starting work and releasing of the album.

KJ: How was it like to record with this record company?

Maya: The record label is doing a good job. They are promoting the album very well. We feel happy and satisfied that we signed with this label.

KJ: Is there any tour coming up?

Maya: We have a plan to do the tour. We are still discussing with the record label. The next plan is to make the video-clip first. Then we will focus on arranging the tour.

KJ: Who made the design for the CD packaging?

Biye (bass): Rudi Gorging Suicide, he lives in Central Java. For this album, we have two guest vocalists, Glenn and Robi (Ensemble Tikoro). Glenn is guest-vocalist on the song “Us of War”.

Bobby Rock (Turbidity vocalist): Why do you use Murka Dosa as the title of the album? [Note: Very angry = murka, sin = dosa, wrath = murka.]

Maya: This lyric for this album represents what we feel at this moment [summary = rangkuman].

KJ: What are you angry towards?

Maya: The world.

Biye: War, hate, menindas orang yang lemah [people who oppress the weak]. Kekuasaan yang semena mena [arbitrary power].

KJ: The song “Zionist” is about anti-Zionist, yes?

Maya: Yes.

Bobby: Was there any offer from any other record label?

Maya: We still choose Sadist record label.

KJ: How many copies did they make?

Maya: 500 copies of CD. They will also produce cassette, 200 copies.

KJ: What does your 12-year-old daughter think about Mother and Father playing in Heavy Metal band?

Maya: They understand it because we always bring them to the gigs since they were children. I have taken the second (son) and the third (daughter) since they were in my belly.

KJ: Does your oldest daughter have any favourite metal band?

Maya: She more loves classic music, she likes to play piano. The second child, the son, likes the metal. He loves Mortality.

KJ: Message for the fans?

Maya: Keep the spirit to make the new creation.

Biye: That is enough.

Maya: Don’t make a wall to creating music. Although we are being a mother, don’t stop to create. But family is still priority. Don’t forget to buy our CD and T-shirt.

*****THE END*****