Kilat are a three piece explorative raw black metal band from Naarm / Melbourne, Australia. The group consists of artists Karina Utomo (High Tension, RINUWAT), Rama Parwata (Whitehorse, RINUWAT) and Benjamin Andrews (MY DISCO, Agents of Abhorrence, Blarke Bayer). The band formed in early 2021 after years of discussion into extreme music genre fusion and the trio's simpatico relationship with one another.

The black metal moniker is the tip of the proverbial iceberg when it comes to describing KILAT's noise laden sound. Their first performance, 'Malam Busuk' was on November 13th at The Corner hotel in Richmond, and the band performed to a sold out crowd. They headlined a night of experimental music at MONA FOMA Festival in January, 2022 and have continued to perform to sold out crowds in Melbourne since 2021.

The trio reference the sounds of contemporary raw black metal artists, as well as drawing influence from Nusantara and ancient Javanese imagery, script and traditions.

credits

released July 22, 2022

Rama Parwata - Drums

Karina Utomo - Voice

Benjamin Andrews - Guitar

RINUWAT is a substantive conceptual project for collaborators Karina Utomo, Rama Parwata and Mike Deslandes. Firmly steeped in Southeast Asian traditional instrumentation and notation, the trio’s ancient Javanese name translates as “to liberate oneself from a curse”.

The group’s debut album, ‘Dua Naga’, carries a weight of musical intellect and amalgamated calibration that is rarely heard in contemporary outfits, let alone in the extreme metal genres that would be a graceless definition of their sound. Each member peers at a set of graduations on their instruments - Utomo’s voice is as piercingly frightening as it is poetic and mantra-like in her delivery. Parwata’s exploratory percussion that seamlessly blends Gamelan notation with bold rhythms on the drum kit and Deslandes creating sonic templates that shift between eloquent guitar narration to walls of noise and droning assaults.

credits

released November 12, 2021

‘Dua Naga’ by RINUWAT

Rama Parwata — drums, reyong, gong, ceng-ceng, jublag, suling

Karina Utomo — voice, gong

Mike Deslandes — guitar, bass, tuk, electronics

Additional voice on Arawa by special guest Rully Shabara

All music written and performed by RINUWAT

Produced by Mike Deslandes

Engineered and mixed by Mike Deslandes

Mastered by Dav Byrne at Iridium Mastering

Album artwork by Gian Manik

Album artwork documentation by Louis Horne

Album designed by Luke Fraser at Grin Creative

Rinuwat logo by Rama Parwata

Project coordination by Amber Arizono

Series curated and produced by Miles Brown

Dua Naga was recorded at Jero Studios, on unceded Wurundjeri Country, 2021.