We haven’t heard from our friends in Nepal for a long time, today we got mail and guess what? RAI KO RIS is alive and kicking with a gig coming up! So if you’re in Kathmandu, do check it out.
RAI KO RIS: Facebook Page
Downloads:
1st album: here
Himalayan Frostbite EP: here
NEPALI PUNK BLOG: thoughtsencaged.blogspot.com
Tanda, the 3rd of Rumah Anak Teater & Projek KoKEN’s compilations of works, was recently stopped from staging at the ASWARA (the government’s art school) after two days. The reasoning from ASWARA is hilarious, if not tragic.
Read about it here: Malay Mail
However, that didn’t stop the group to get on with it. The play is now staging at Petaling Jaya’s PJ Live Arts. Details on the flyer.
Finally unleashed by Basement Records:
IMPIETY’s Grand, ‘GOATFATHER’ Box-Set limited to 66 !
IMPIETY – goatfather box set (9 1/2″ x 12 1/2″ x 1 1/2″) embossed band logo and title with gold stamped on heavy thick black box also embossed title on 4 side of the boxes handnumbered with gold ink.
This Heavy Duty Sarcophagus includes these cult items: read the rest of this entry
according to crust-demos: “a sludge/crust metal band from Los Angeles, USA and this is their web release demo recorded in 2009: It comes with nice artwork done by the bassist of the band and the package includes the lyrics. Music wise this is doom/sludge with moments of crusty flavor and delivers a blending of Black Sabbath riffs (check Soulkrusher’s opening and bridge riffs and most of guitar work in other songs, there is always a Sabbath feeling everywhere), Skaven’s heaviness and Dystopia’s intensity, (these bands are mentioned in their myspace as inspiration). The six tracks move in slow pacing and last over 28 minutes, singers throaty yells/screams fit nicely,lyrics are pessimistic and dark is it is expected and the sound quality is excellent. “
Band: myspace.com/gallerysludge
Order: myspace.com/disarmament
ricecooker note: GALLERY is awesome man! Surely one of the best bands plying the new return to stench-core of yore and then some. Looking at their myspace page, they looked pretty young to me and the songs here tell me the influences are varied; from heavy-howlin’ psychedelic stoner grooves to darkest crust; all added into the stench-some cauldron. The thing is, this is just a demo release. I just hope the upcoming proper release would keep the dirt and rust and the crawling terror intact. Can’t wait to hear more!
Patto Apparatus’ mega-crustoid fanzine has a new issue out and it has been out for a while now but we forgot to post this!! Wholesome raw-punx goodness!
contact: punkpingponk <
Two bands from Penang visiting the fine city!
PARIAH POGO PARTY!!!
SATURDAY // 6 MARCH 2010
@ BLACKHOLE (212 Syed Alwi Road)
5pm doors open
$6 entry!
with
WEOT SKAM (Penang drunx thrashers!)
GANG BUSTER (antifa Oi from Penang!)
SUBTLE REVENGE (strategi kehidupan hardcore!)
GENERATION 69 (strength thru Oi!)
YOGYAKARTA (happy thrash hc!)
EXKORIATOR (crust as fuck armegeddon!)
THE FOCKERS (82 style naughty boys!)
BLOODY REJECTS (grrrl fronted hardcore!)
In October last year we told you that a band from Switzerland is coming over for a visit in the region. We noted them as “friends of SOL which haeve been playing around the squats, festivals etc in Europe for the last 6 years and described as “noise-punk-grind-freejazz-cabaret-disco-hardcore”, so they are not a typical bunch of serious d-beat crusties.”
more on that post here: MOSSURAYA: Swiss Cabaret! SEA Tour
At this point, we don’t know if they will be in Malaysia or not but a show in Singapore is already being booked.
here’s the note from Prohibited Projects:
BIZZARE ZOMBIE ATTACK!
Friday // 5th March 2010 (TBC)
@ BLACKHOLE, 212 Syed Alwi Road
8pm doors open, $7 entry
with
MOSSURAYA (weirded jazz disco noise punk, Switzerland)
SHAK TII (ear raping grind!)
STRAIGHT FORWARD (hardcore on the two-step!)
MINDFUCKINGBOY vs KIRDEC (harshnoise vs experimental sounds from Europe!)
ELEGY FOR EULISZA (heavy hc carnage!)
CIRCUITRIP (trojan skin ambient experimental)
+ 2 more bands
** this show is for nut cases, feel free to bring props, costumes, balloons, void contracts, old underwear and pond scum and let all hell break free **
Sheffield’s instro-post-rock giant, playing KL for the very first time.
Venue: Bentley Music Auditorium
Date: 10th March 2010
Time: 8pm
from soundscape: “It is with great regret that 65daysofstatic have been forced to cancel their upcoming shows in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Taiwan due to family emergency.
Below is the official statement from the band.
“Due to a serious family emergency, 65daysofstatic will not be playing shows in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore or Taiwan in the coming weeks. We are very sorry to anybody who has bought tickets and been looking forward to this.” – 65daysofstatic”
Tickets & Details: soundscape-records.com
wiki | myspace | official site
OVERDOSE features Duwei, who we’ve met at the singer for Fangzui Xiangfa recently. He plays drums for this band. Local fast melodic punk funsters ALWAYS LAST joins in.
flyers & dates: read the rest of this entry
from their site:
“Vialka hail from deepest France, via everywhere and nowhere. They are a devilishly high-spirited guitar/drums duo who tour hard and fast across the world. Their music skips joyfully across borders, channeling desert blues, Chinese folk songs, scatter rock and European gypsy song dynamics in a whirlwind of dervish energy. Their endless gypsy punk folk rock tales, hard hitting poly-rhythms and yelps and howls make for a danceable and intoxicating brew. Like A Hawk And A Hacksaw or The Ex their openness to new sounds and cultures makes you feel alive and shows that ‘world punk rock’ need not be a dirty phrase.”
Two shows, one in KL and the other in Singapore as Vialka made their way around the world travelling the breadth of UK, China and the USA!
06/04 – Kuala Lumpur/MY @ No Black Tie
07/04 – Singapore/SG @ BlackHole212
Details soon!!
Jakarta’s metallic hardcore-punks with their first album!
Most excellent Indonesian grindcore masters, last seen playing a show in Kota KInabalu, is coming over for a short visit with one show each in Johor Baru & Singapore.
Dates & Flyers: read the rest of this entry
Bandung’s awesome Rock’n'Roll The Majestic & Tanjung Pinang (Bintan) HC/Punk The Cruel Murder on their first join visit to this area, with two shows in Malaysia and one in Singapore.
When DUNG played Bandung 2 years ago we had the fortune of playing with a lot of great Bandung bands and The Majestic was one of them, awesome sloppy rawk’n'roll played by punks! Excellent band you gotta check out!
BTW: the KL show will be the first show ever organised by the new BUKIT BINTANG PYRATE PUNX crew!
myspace.com/bukitbintangpyratepunx
Dates & Flyers: read the rest of this entry
TSA, one of the oldest Pinoy hardcore-punk still surviving is releasing their 3rd album. Back to Kindergarten is described as “a compilation of songs from punk / hardcore bands that has a big influence on them individually and as band, paying a sort of a homage to their “kuya’s”
Currently based in Singapore where the band members are working as “architects”, TSA will play two shows in the Philippines and one show in JB with Beijing’s OVERDOSE.
Dates & Flyers: read the rest of this entry
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