Naarm based raw black metal trio KILAT headline The Old Bar on Friday August 26th with an incredibly diverse line up of immense talent. The line up includes Southeast asian punk band Reaksi, and future focused rap duo Teether & Kuya Neil.

KILAT have recently performed at Mona Foma festival in Launceston, Dark Mofo Festival in Hobart, as well as performing several sold out shows in Melbourne to date. The group launched their debut album, entitled ‘Rantai Penjinak’ to a sold out crowd at the Curtin Hotel on July 23.

The release is available on an extremely limited edition deluxe cassette through AR53 Records.

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REAKSI are a Southeast asian punk band formed in Melbourne Australia. They are three immigrant punks from Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. The band delivers direct, hard and pungent lyrical protest in their native language Bahasa. The songs attack political issues that every Asian punk knows too well.

Teether & Kuya Neil began to collaborate in late 2020, two powerful forces in the Naarm/ Melbourne underground came together to create something rare and special. Together, Teether & Kuya Neil make future-focused rap informed by modern club styles like footwork and bass music. Teether’s nonchalant but vivid words infuse Neil’s disorientating, hyper-modern production.

KILAT are a three piece explorative raw black metal band from Naarm / Melbourne, Australia. The group consists of artists Karina Utomo (High Tension, RINUWAT), Rama Parwata (Whitehorse, RINUWAT) and Benjamin Andrews (MY DISCO, Agents of Abhorrence, Blarke Bayer). The band formed in early 2021 after years of discussion into extreme music genre fusion and the trio's simpatico relationship with one another.

The black metal moniker is the tip of the proverbial iceberg when it comes to describing KILAT's noise laden sound. Their first performance, 'Malam Busuk' was on November 13th at The Corner hotel in Richmond, and the band performed to a sold out crowd. They headlined a night of experimental music at MONA FOMA Festival in January, 2022 and have continued to perform to sold out crowds in Melbourne throughout the year.

The trio reference the sounds of contemporary raw black metal artists, as well as drawing influence from Nusantara and ancient Javanese imagery, script and traditions.