Interviews
September 18, 2024
Furiously thrashing Surabaya (an interview with FETTER)
Interviews
September 15, 2024
Restless I’ve indeed been, trying to find some good gothic metal band in Indonesia. Because, you know, there’s probably not a single genre there without a good representation there. However, from a few examples of gothic metal stuff, I was slightly disappointed. The bands are trying their best, but somehow that spirit of gothic was missing. Not through any band’s fault, I have to add. Then a friend of mine has recommended Restless from Bandung.…
First, there was Danur (2017), where we’ve met Asih for the first time. And now she has her own movie. That’s something, isn’t it? It indeed is. Indonesian filmmakers got the idea of making a franchise (Danur, now with the 4th installment in the making) and spinoff (Asih, released in 2018, with the sequel being released in December 2020), quite similar to the cinematic world of The Conjuring/Annabelle/The Nun in the US cinema. For that,…
From the wave upon wave of new music coming my way every day, Siberian Redsocks have caught my eye almost instantly. That’s right, the eye, because the very name of this Jakarta band made me chuckle… like, who could come with a band name like that? But it works, as I’ve immediately decided to check them out. And straight away, I will say, I liked their visuals, which in our modern society based on emotions…
Lately I haven’t been listening to much of metal (except ocassional track here or there), and I am willing to openly state that raw black metal was never my thing. Therefore to get Behezael’s “Demo 2020” in my headphones was quite a challenging experience. As it’s turned out, there had been nothing to worry about. True, if you are one of those sound excellence afficionados, you better stay off this one, but for the rest…
It could have been such a great movie…the poster is so nice! OK, I am getting really ahead of myself, but that’s basically how to sum up this 2017 disaster of a movie. Rizal Mantovani Really, as much as I love Rizal Mantovani’s original Kuntilanak (reviewed here) – and I know I’ve stated that a couple of times already, Jailangkung is right there in the corner with his remake of Kuntilanak from 2018. And I…
