Devoured - Death Metal from Indonesia
Interview with Nyoman Sastrawan
Interview by Andrew Stanton
Devoured are a brutal Death Metal band from Indonesia and their new album The Curse of Sabda Palon is awesome. Andrew Stanton talked to frontman Nyoman about the new album. Hello and welcome to Inside the Darkness. Hello Andrew, Nyoman Sastrawan here from Devoured, Indonesia. - Can you tell our readers a bit about your history, please? Devoured was found in Yogyakarta 1998. We play Old School Death Metal like Entombed, Dismember, Bloodbath. We just released the new album ‘The Curse Of Sabda Palon’.
It was released by Sadist records & Vrykoblast Production. - What bands did you listen to growing up? I listen to many bands and many genres. But this week I listened to some old school death metal stuff like Autopsy ‘Mental Funeral’, new CD
our readers check out? Indonesia is the biggest metal scene in Asia. Death Metal has a big fansbase. If you are interested with Indonesia Metal scene, you will find a lot of good quality bands. Death Vom- it, Jasad, D e a d squad, Viscral, Pure Wrath, Vallendusk, etc. Who is Sabda Palon? Is this a concept album? Yes, the concept of the album. Read the short story below - A story from the age of kings in Java dwipa; the great Majapahit kingdom, about 1294-
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of Cannibal Corpse ‘Violence Unimagined’, some Black Metal & Doom Metal bands. - What is the Indonesian scene like? What bands should