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WYNKEN DELIRIUM - M'SIA's LAST HOPE FOR METAL???
' Lembab dan Berat ' ( slow and heavy)
That was the first ever description I came across regarding Malaysian band Wynken Delirium on a gig flyer in 2009.
I was intrigued. Are they a doom metal / sludge band? Not many of those in Malaysia. In fact I dare say, now that I've heard Wynken Delirium's music and live performance, a RARE commodity.
Present day Malaysia is not a hotbed for anything heavy metal or traditional hard rock. It's INDIE-LAND!!! It's their time now! Sure the otai metal bands or the otai rock kang-kang bands are still around but is there still a consumership, a decent sizeable one that can fill the halls of metal gigs or buy the bands DIY products?Maybe there is still but more likely the number has downsized considerably. Can a Malaysian metalhead shed light on this???? I'm a Singaporean and my views are shaped by what I experience and may not be accurate.
Anyhoo back to INDIE-LAND. Yes the proliferation of Indie Malaya bands. Love em or hate em, they are aplenty these days, to the point that not many show organisers want to give a slot to metal bands. Case in point, the recent ROCK THE WORLD. Yup, one can safely say that WYNKEN DELIRIUM is metal and hard rock's ONLY representative for that show! Sad but true, my metal brethren!
BUT looking at the band's hardwork throughout the years, if there's one band to represent a currently very marginalised genre in Malaysian rock, it would be WYNKEN DELIRIUM.This is a band that writes killer metal/rock tunes and perform them with passion and guts live. This is a band that tirelessly perform one gig after another to brand their name. ( check their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/wynkendelirium ) This is a band that walks the talk about the metal scene health for they not only play gigs, they help to organise them for other metal bands.
In a land where Indie-Malaya rules, WYNKEN DELIRIUM stands alone and in the realm of Malaysian extreme music, they stand alone as the country's only doom/sludge/stoner rock/metal band. Yet, the band is not contend to being just another sludge band in the whole world. WYNKEN DELIRIUM wants to add elements of their Southeast Asian heritage to their sludge and thus making them a unique entity in the whole of hard rock.
I believe that the glory days of the Rock Kapak / Rock KangKang 80s will not return.
I am also inclined to believe that the 90s underground metal boom is gone forever.
But hard rock and the metal genres can hope for a healthier future in which exists a smaller but dedicated and economically stable metal/rock scene in Malaysia. WYNKEN DELIRIUM may well be the hope for that future.
- burhan skullbanger
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