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Entertainment 7 years ago
Bandung metal outfit Jasad to play in Germany, Czech Republic
Bandung-based death metal band Jasad is scheduled to play at the world's biggest heavy metal festival, Wacken Open Air in northern Germany, in August this year, during which they will share the bill with some of the biggest names in the genre, including Judas Priest, Helloween, Danzig and Sepultura.
Interview 8 years ago
Five questions for 'metal professor' Jeremy Wallach
Ethnomusicologist Jeremy Wallach of Bowling Green University considered himself lucky to be in Indonesia in the late 1990s, when the country was undergoing political transformation following the resignation of president Soeharto in 1998. At the time, Wallach was doing fieldwork for his book Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997-2001, which enabled him to witness a direct relationship between the underground music and the burgeoning opposition movement that sought to challenge Soeharto’s authoritarian regime. Returning home to the United States, Wallach wrote extensively on metal and made a name for himself as one of proponents in the rising academic movement focusing on the genre. Earlier this month, Wallach was in town to promote the Indonesian edition of Modern Noise by having a discussion at the American cultural center @america, where he spent time reminiscing about attending a punk makeshift gig on a banana farm in West Jakarta. He spoke with The Jakar...
