Choria - Atmospheric Black Metal from Indonesia
Interview with Choria
Interview by Andrew Stanton
Hello and welcome to Inside the Darkness. - Can you tell our readers a bit about your history, please? Ave! Choria was formed on December 17th, 2016 in Indonesia. Started as a jamming project between Rsharsh (vocals, guitars) and Jou (drums) playing various music such as Hardcore, Punk, and some Black Metal hits. We agreed to form a band to brought such landscape, history, and nature-themed music under the name of Choria. We released our debut song entitled “Nature Teaches” in 2017 following
the recruitment of Zardlord (guitars), Steew (keyboards), and Vakh (bass) on the band. - What bands influenced you? We are highly influenced by any Black Metal, Post Metal, and Darkwave musicians. Furthermore, we love how they put a theme in their
To assess what Indonesian Metal Scene looks like can be watched from how many extreme labels and bands emerged in the last two decades. Indonesia has the biggest Metal fan in Southeast Asia. Every city in Indonesia has its own c o m m u n i ties, bands, and some hidden gem if you digging it well. Of course, there are m a n y bands from Europe such as Switzerland, Sweden, France, Germany, etc. who have played and toured in Indonesia since the last decade. Most of the shows were organized by communities,
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works that relate to the condition where they’re living. - What is the Indonesian Metal scene like? Do European bands ever play live there?
