The Rise Of Power Metal

Gigantic. We had just came back from playing at The Rise Of Power Metal gig last Sunday 4th March @ Giggers Art Cafe (previously known as Paul's Place) in Kuala Lumpur. It was a very much enlightening and rich experience, to say the least.

Drove out in our rented van as early as 6 am (thanks to our good friend Bad). Zaihas had good fun rampaging around like a rude "bas kilang" driver in pitch morning darkness searching for Ajak's house, with occasional overshoots to a nearby Chinese graveyard. Talking about doom metal.

Next, both of them drove to Haris' home to wake him up and get him to automatically prepare us all some jelly breads. Next we had to cross over fences to get to Fad's home to fetch Fad and our cameraman Am. Ultra tight security abound. We zig-zagged Kampung Melayu to fetch Shah, and by 8 am, we were well on our way to Kuala Lumpur.

Stopped by a couple of times to have brunch, and arrived at the venue at 12.30 pm. Waited for 2 hours before the place opened- not bad, we were punctual. Did a soundcheck session and we waited. Long time.

We played at about 8 pm. The place was not that packed, but the crowd was awesome. The crowd rushed to the front immediately to the introductory riffings of Refuse/Resist. What a rush!

The combination of fatigue, stress, and adrenaline took its toll. Ajak shrieked and leaped all over the place energetically, eventhough slightly wobbly-footed due to lack of nutrients- it was almost 10 hours ago that we had a decent meal. Shah suddenly became the angriest guitarist one could ever imagine- we swear he was almost hissing at the crowd, stomping his feet all over the place, dislodging some cables in the process. Haris found out that the ceiling above was too low, and as to avoid potential damage, settled down in a very extraordinarily wide horse stance. That was all it took for the people to look at him in awe- he was big to begin with. Fad was possessed by drumsticks, to put it simply, drumming about in a feisty John Bonham-Mike Portnoy manner. Wonderful. Zaihas was already lying on the floor. Haris could only see his legs.

The crowd banged their heads to the music, and bodysurfing was everywhere! Hands grabbed Ajak to get copies of our free single CD-Rs. The sight was purely delirious. Andy from Flop Poppy dropped by to meet us up, too. Long time no see, big bro. So Ajak and Fad took a photo with him :)

We are really sorry that we were unable to watch our good friends Bannbodo play as we had to rush back to Johor Bahru as Fad needs to board the flight to Kota Kinabalu the very next morning. Sorry guys- we will certainly drop by again the next time to watch you guys play!

Wynken Delirium would like to extend our appreciation and thanks to these parties for the wonderful show- Amir & i-bands.net, Pekanmaya, Paul, Revenge, Bannbodo, Bad for the van, Am for the wonderful photo shots, all the bands who also played with us that night (more power to you all!), and most importantly, the BIG COOL SUPER CROWD WHO SUPPORTED US!!!!!

Moving forward, our drummer Fad will be in Sabah for the whole of March, and so the whole band will concentrate in completing the recording session- we have a couple of new songs to complete.

God bless you all.