Thursday, September 13, 2007

Ramadhan: Month Of Perservance

Hello again. Been busy with work. So kicks in the first day of fasting...

Iyan On Fasting Month

The month of Ramadhan is here. No eating in the day time. No drinking. No vigorous activities like soccer. No jamming, due to respecting of the holy month.

Most of all, no extreme headbanging! I've cut down listening to my favourite extreme metal by 75%. No (old black metal) Bathory. No Slayer. No Wages Of Sins.

But however, will be listening to slighty lighter stuff like classic heavy metal (hehehe).

Appreciative, meaningful and decent melodic metal/hard rock stuff like the songs "Come Clarity" and "Moonshield" are still okay. Educational (is that the word?) metal songs from P.O.D and Orphaned Land. Folk metal acoustics from Suidakra.


Iyan On Last Friday's Gig


Last Friday is another job well done by the militants. Though not really the best. Well, I'm more of performing for expressing, not impressing. To love the sound that came from within you is very important. Too important.

Thanks to Clarence's initiative to have the performance and Bishan ITE for the invitation. Farid for blasting the drums, Yazid and Firdaus (Bee) as replacement/guest musicians, and especially awesome friends who came down to support us! And Mr Aiiri Frost (photograph officer) for the wonderful photos!

I get to meet some cool guys from Then Revolution, some of our newest allies. Also, even cool, a pair of metallers from Crucifixion! I've visited their myspace once, and quite liked their raw and bad-ass thrash metal approach.


You guys (Then Revolution and Crucifixion) kicks ass! You guys made my day. I couldn't thank more.

Iyan On Assault

With returning militants Nesh & Syaz on November, we will continue to rise and fight harder. From where we stand now, I think we did quite well as a one-year-plus old band.

Very importantly, we rely support from allies and friends. Thus, we are not selfish. And we're not a band of trendwhores with tapered pants playing emo screamocore pop-punk sh*t!! Hahaha!


One day Assault (as well as Nullified) will appear at metal-archives.com (and hopefully Metalhammer magazine!), marching on forward. Alongside folk warriors Coventide, I hope we will front the homeground extreme metal scene in 10 years (too long..? Okay, maybe 5 years) to come.

We play melodic death metal! Also, "pleasant" death metal(?), as I recall what the judge from Tapestry named us as! Melody under brutality.


That's all for now. After blogging, I'll go watch cartoons...

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