A little history about the band:
Rator is an early black metal band from Malaysia founded in late '87 by 4 black metal enthusiasts. With their evil appearance they played gigs at several small venue's and at rock contests around Kuala Lumpur. Rator was one of the early metal bands in malaysia that used brutal, evil and sadistic theme's in their lyrics and music. This made them different than the rest of Malaysia's "corporate metal/rock bands" at the time.
Rator released their only demo in 1990 entitled" Evil Symphony" it contained 4 evil & unholy acts, with its raw, unadulterated, intense and wicked sound it created a buzz in the local metal scene & even overseas specifically the BM scene. Sadly Rator disbanded soon after because of some undisclosed problems, they tried to reform several times but it proved to be unsuccessful. Suddenly in 2005 an unholy miracle happened and Rator reformed and entered the studio to record their full masterpiece and their fatal art is reborn. The evil Symphony has returned! Beware!
- Taken from the first page of the booklet, fixed it a little, broken English may have been a bit hard to understand.
A year an' a half ago I only grabbed this due to the historical relevance and influence this band has had on extreme music in Asia. Since they were the first extreme band to release a demo in their country they're bound to have had some sort of impact however small, Of course I know nothing about Black Metal so don't take my word for it. This full length has 8 studio tracks + the 4 demo ones(and it comes with a free sticker! stickers are kvlt! hahaha). I must say listening to it again now this is pretty fucking good, Rator's style of playing has some resemblance to the first Sarcofago album or maybe the first Bathory LP mixed with Obsessed by Cruelty with lesser thrash influence and a more BM approach to drumming as opposed to Witchhunter's d-beat'ish style. The vocal's are raspy and in some cases,whispering. lyrics are in broken english but decent enough to understand what the song is about(Antichristian themes,goat sacrifice,suicide & the usual). the guitarists performance is very simplistic which fits the music well. anyways I can't review this properly since even I don't know what I'm talkin bout half the time so go hear for yourself.
Rator - Possessed + '90 Evil Symphony Demo
Band Contact:
Muzikbox Production
P.O. Box 96
Pejabat Pos Majidee
81100 Johor Bahru
Johor Malaysia
muzikbox@hotmail.com
www.muzikboxproduction.cjb.net
get in touch with Rator using the contacts above!
could you reupload please?
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