𝕶𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖆 𝖀𝖙𝖔𝖒𝖔 is an extreme metal vocalist, composer and collaborative artist. She is the co-founder of musical projects Rinuwat, KILAT, and High Tension. Her interdisciplinary vocal practice transcends various genres of extreme metal, experimental, extra-normal and cross-cultural practices.

Utomo has collaborated extensively across industrial, avant-garde improvisation, grindcore, and black metal genres in performance and recordings,  as well as in visual art in the medium of video, sculpture and research.

Her commissioned performance and audio/visual works have been featured at the National Gallery of Victoria (AU), Project 8 Gallery (AU), the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea), and TONO Festival (Mexico). Her projects have featured in festival programs such as Download Festival, Dark Mofo, and Mona Foma in Australia, and Soundrenaline Festival in Indonesia.

Recent projects include Kasekten, a confluence of dance, voice and and visual art with artists Juliet Burnett and Michaela Gleave and GROH GOH (Rehearsal for Rangda) with lead artist Leyla Stevens (Tarrawarra Biennial, 2023).

Utomo’s 2024 residency with artist and beekeeper Nic Dowse (Honeyfingers Collective) in Ubud, Bali, and Majalengka, West Java (Indonesia), explore the bee species Apis dorsata and Apis cerana, generating artistic engagements with a focus on collective effort, cross-cultural knowledge sharing and practices involving the natural world.

KILAT

{raw black metal band with Benjamin Andrews and Rama Parwata}

Joshua Wells / R. Rebeiro / Karina Utomo

{experimental techno with live electronic manipulation, percussion and voice}

Joshua Wells & Karina Utomo

{experimental techno with live electronic manipulation and voice}

Rinuwat

{musical project with guitars, augmented Balinese gamelan (gongs, reyong, suling), 7 piece live ensemble - Mike Deslandes, Rama Parwata, I Ketut Sutena Adiputra, Shoshana Rosenberg, Jaya Parwata, Benjamin Andrews, Karina Utomo}

High Tension

{metal band with Matt Weston, Lauren Hammel and Mike Deslandes}

Kasekten

{confluence of dance (Juliet Burnett), voice (Karina Utomo) and visual art (Michaela Gleave)}

Upcoming

19 - 22 September 2025 - Blacken Open Air Festival [NT], Inteye-Arrkwe, Ross River Resort, Arrernte Country: Blood Duster, Earthless [USA], South East Desert Metal, Divide & Dissolve, DIPLOID, Carcinoid, KILAT and more

30 August 2025 - Soft Centre Festival [NSW], Whitebay Power Station, Wangal Land: Bhenji Ra & Karina Utomo present WETAN

27 August 2025 - supporting LITURGY (USA) - KILAT, Caustic Grip, The Old Bar, Wurrundjeri Country [VIC]

22 August 2025 - KILAT in Djilang with Atra Vetosus, Mortuary Sickness, Bog Monster, The Barwon Club, Wadawurrung Country, Geelong/Djilang [VIC]

16 August 2025 - Hellraiser Fest, Gutless, Quest Master, Alloxylon, Joshua Wells & Karina Utomo, Aglo, The Bendigo, Wurrundjeri Country [VIC]

Past

2025 - Dark Mofo, Night Mass - Joshua Wells / R. Rebeiro / Karina Utomo

2025 - Dark Mofo, Night Mass - Joshua Wells & Karina Utomo

2025 - South East Asia Tour [Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam] - KILAT

2025 - KILAT, Blood of a Pomegranate, NPCEDE

2024 - Supporting Full Of Hell [USA]

2024 - National tour supporting HEALTH (USA), ZHEANI - Joshua Wells & Karina Utomo

2024 - Aotearoa Tour [NZ] - KILAT with Distant Fear [NZ]

2024 - Supporting King Yosef [USA] - KILAT, Caustic Grip

2023 - Java & Bali Indonesia Tour - KILAT 

2023 - The Eighty-Six Festival - Karina Utomo & Duré Dara, Marco Fusinato, Lisa Lerkenfeldt

2023 - Supporting Jesus Piece (USA), Max Watts (VIC, AU) - Joshua Wells & Karina Utomo

2023 - Divide & Dissolve - KILAT

2023 - Supporting HTRK, The Curtin (VIC, AU)  - Joshua Wells & Karina Utomo

2023 - Ohm Festival - Brisbane Powerhouse (VIC, AU) - Rinuwat, Robert Takahashi Crouch

2022 - Dark Mofo - Theatre Royal (TAS) - Rinuwat, Raja Kirik (IND)

2022 - Dark Mofo - Sanctae Noctis, Mac 2 (TAS) - KILAT, King Yosef (USA), Conjurer (GBR), Katatonia (SWE)

2022 - Soft Centre Festival - Carriageworks (NSW) - Josh Wells & Karina Utomo, RP BOO (USA), Raja Kirik (IND), Estoc (USA)

2022 - Rising Festival x Make It Up Club - Rama Parwata, Jaya Parwata, Aarti Jadu, Rohan Rebeiro, Adam King, Karina Utomo

2022 - Mona Foma - KILAT

2019 - Download Festival (VIC / NSW, AU) - High Tension, Slayer, Anthrax, Judas Priest, Behemoth

2018 - Soundrenaline Festival (IND) - High Tension, Seringai, Limp Bizkit

2018 - Download Festival (NSW, AU) - High Tension, KoЯn, Limp Bizkit

2018 - Dark Mofo (TAS, AU) - Night Mass - High Tension, Marlon Williams, Tropical Fuckstorm

2017 - National Tour (AU) with REFUSED (SWE) and SICK OF IT ALL (USA) - High Tension

2016 - Dark Mofo (TAS, AU) - High Tension, The Bronx (USA)

Make It Up Club Performances

[avant-garde improvisation, Make It Up Club occurs weekly since 1998]

2024 - 26th Anniversary Festival - Jonnine Standish, Maria Moles & Karina Utomo

2023 - KILAT & Marco Fusinato

2023 - Striborg, Alloxylon & Karina Utomo

2023 - Blood of a Pomegranate, Rama Parwata & Karina Utomo

2023 - Jaya Parwata & Karina Utomo

2022 - Shoshana Rosenberg & Karina Utomo

2022 - Rising Festival x Make It Up Club - Rama Parwata, Jaya Parwata, Aarti Jadu, Rohan Rebeiro, Adam King, Karina Utomo

2022 - Joshua Wells & Karina Utomo

2021 - 23rd Birthday Festival - Bonnie Mercer, Todd Andersen-Kunert, Karina Utomo

2021 - Dancehouse x Make It Up Club - Curators: Make It Up Club, Kevin Jeynes and Amaara Raheem 

Collaborators/Artists: Tony Yap, Lillian Steiner, Theo Cassidy, Josie Weise, Devika Bilimoria, Daniel Jenatsch (electronics), Karina Utomo (voice), Sooji Kim (electronics), Kirri BÃπchler (double bass), Evelyn Morris (drums)

2019 - Sage Pbbbt, Karina Utomo

2019 - 21st Anniversary Show - Cat Hope, Eric Normand, Karina Utomo

2023 - 𝑮𝑹𝑶𝑯 𝑮𝑶𝑯 (𝑹𝒆𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒅𝒂), a film by Leyla Stevens as part of the TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili, curated by Dr. Leuli Eshraghi, TarraWarra Musseum of Art, Wurundjeri Country [VIC, AU], performance as Rangda - Karina Utomo

2019 - Speechless, an opera by Cat Hope, Perth Festival (premiere), one of four soloists alongside Sage Pbbbt, Judith Dodsworth, and Caitlin Cassidy, Whadjuk Nyoongar Country [WA, AU]