Metal Music of Singapore

Metal has a little but not insignificant presence in Singapore’s music scene. For the past few periods, Singapore has seen a fast growth of metal ensembles making Singapore a stop for them to perform. Ensembles such as Iron Maiden, Slayer, Exodus, Helloween, Morbid Angel, and Dream Theatre have played in Singapore to receptive masses, at places such as Fort Canning Park and Singapore Indoor Stadium. Small to medium scale shows are held almost every week at places like BlackHotel 212 or Substation. Very recent, on 15 February 2011, Iron Maiden played to a population of 12,000 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

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There have been also many renowned indigenous metal ensembles in the growing underground scene.

Special mention include

·         Wormrot has presently been contracted by the UK record label, Earache Records.

·         Black metal stalwarts Impiety whose name has reach far places.

·         Local Death metal ensemble Absence of the Sacred had the honor of Kevin Talley, modern drummer for Death and ex-Dying Fetus drummer, to term for them

·         Extreme metal veterans known as Rudra who formed a current metal genre known as Vedic Metal and cult following worldwide. The ensemble has also drawn the interest of Musicologists. Several papers have been printed about Vedic metal and the ensemble.

·         Bastardized: initiator Doom Melodic Death metal existing since the year 1993. With Love, With Hate, with Grief, With Pain. EP produced under Valentine Sound Productions in the year 1994. Poetry styled album The over Burdened expected produced in the year 2013.

Metal ensembles in Singapore run the gamut and include ensembles from many differing subgenres. Though, it is not rare for ensembles from the more underground genres to sight ensembles from more mainstream genres with scorn.

The Singapore’s mainstream media has a little support for the metal. Though, metal music of this current generation is lucky to be featured occasionally on Brade Bo’s concert, Vicious Volume of RIA 89.7fm. Oshiego was also among in Lime Magazine’s 30 Hottest Indigenous Acts, a compilation CD, with the song Now Suffer initially from the titular EP.

The indigenous metal scene in Singapore is not daunted by the lack of assistance from the indigenous mainstream media, and has formed its own methods of distributing information by using renowned internet based social mediums such as the Twitter, blogs and Facebook. One well-known organization is heavy metal Tribune, which features many indigenous metal artists as well as other from other parts of the countries, primarily to allow each area to reach out to meet one another, while providing indigenous metal heads to known what they are up against. Heavy Metal Tribune also gives show organizers with a platform to publicize their activities, through their Facebook wall or its monthly publication.

Some of the metal ensembles in Singapore both in previous and current include Exuberance (Melodic Black Metal), Fall of Mirra (Experimental/Hard-Core Metal), Harvester (Melodic Black Metal), Hella Morrigan (Black/Doom Metal), Helvette (Black Metal), Impiety (Black/Thrash Metal), Incarnation Ov Seth (Melodic Death/Black Metal), IronFist (Sex Metal), ITNOS (Brutal-Technical Metal), Kaliyuga (Melodic Death Metal), Kalodin (Melodic Black/Death Metal), La'Dies (Industrial Punk Metal), Luna Azure ( Expressionistic Ambient Black metal), MetalGunz (Heavy Metal/Rock & Roll), MeltgSnow (Heavy Metal), Meza Virs (Gothic/Black/Death Metal), No Rest For The Weary (Deathcore/Djent), Oshiego (Death-Thrash Metal), Pycho (Old-School Death Metal), Rudra (Black/Death Metal, Vedic Metal), Sanity Obscure (Progressive Death Metal), Scaphoids (Progressive Thrash Metal), Soul Devour (Death Metal), Stillborn, Suicide Solution (Heavy Metal), Thy Fallen Kingdom (Thrash Metal), Tormentress (Thrash Metal), Truth Be Known (Death-Thrash Metal), Vrykolakas (Death Metal), Vulgate Dogmas (Deathcore/Death Metal), Wormrot (GrindCore), Xanadoo (Thrash Metal), Zushakon, Magnicide (Emo-Grindcoredoks), Abhorer (Black/Death/Thrash), Absence of the Sacred (Death Metal), Aeondrift (Avant-Garde Progressive Electro-Metal, Nintendo Core, Djent), Age of Sinfonia (Symphonic Metal), Analdicktion (Brutal Death Metal/Grind), Assault (Melodic Death Metal), Azra-el (Melodic Death Metal), Bastardized (Doom Melodic death Metal), Bhelliom (Death-Thrash Metal), Cardiac Necropsy (Death Metal), Chaos Aftermath (Futuristic Metal, Melodic Death-Thrash Metal), Crucifixion, The Corruptor (Death N Roll), Dante's Theory (Djent, Technical Death Metal), Dyeth (Death Metal/Grindcore), Deus Ex Machina (Death-Thrash Metal), Doxomedon (Brutal-Technical Metal), Draconis Infernum (Black Metal), Dystopian (Black/Thrash Metal), E-thereal (Melodic Death Metal), and Eibon (Melodic Black Metal).