It is not an easy job being metal musician in Indonesia, unless you clone more and more typical easy listening of Metallica’s “Unforgiven”, but for (brutal) death metal, only God and Satan know more. I will not tell you how difficult are Indo-metal scenes surviving their existence among other Indonesian music scenes in general. I am not a fucking grumbler, you know! If you want to know in a glance the problems, Sam Dunn's 'Global Metal' documenter (part Indonesia: It's like a Mass Demonstration) is the best reference although is not the comprehensive one. Covering about 25 % Indo-metal scene situation, Sam Dunn had his job well done. But, above all, being a metal fan is easier.
That why I was glad when Plasmoptysis released an EP entitled
Dawn The Plague in mid-2011. After their solid debut album,
Breeds of The Malevolence in mid-2010, Plasmoptysis seemed very enthusiastic to deliver their new brutal blast. The album consist of four tracks, but only three new tracks inside the album, the last track is an instrumental version of opening track “Rage of Misanthropy“. Track “Rage of Misanthropy” and “Divination” showed us the meaning of fast and brutal blast. Yes, they did a solid and compact work of brutal death. With ferocious beating drums of Dawan, fierce pulling off bass guitar line of Sandro, a little bit of melodic riff and slams where their two guitarist did guitar duel, and dark guttural growl of vocals, Plasmoptysis put them all balance out quite well altogether. Another two tracks, “Dawn the Plague” and instrumental version of “Rage of Misanthropy”, I think they are somewhat small beer. Then, self titled track “Dawn the Plague”, it is a short atmospheric intro to the next song. Yea, it's truly complementary piece. And another one, “Rage of Misanthropy” (instrumental version), I think it is unnecessary track – it is just another complementary piece.
After all, this EP is good release, at least “Rage of Misanthropy” and “Divination” are enough for us to anticipate their upcoming full-length album. I hope this five-piece young men deliver their strong brutal blast again in their second album. As far I know, they will be slightly different from their debut album, not only in musical side but also lyrics concept - softer and more polished than before. Lyrics concept, I don't care if they'll sing about cat, dog, camel, trees, god, satan, angel, or plenty thing about s
hit. All I want is good music!
