Bhenji Ra x Karina Utomo present 'WETAN'

A meeting between Bhenji Ra and Karina Utomo, WETAN summons the winds as carriers of ancestral resonance, weaving Moro (Southern Philippines) and Javanese (Indonesia) cosmologies into a transcendent exchange and fortification of spirit and memory. 

Karina Utomo’s disintegration and abstraction of voice explores multidisciplinary forms of extreme metal, experimental cross-cultural practices, and extra-normal voicing. Working across the genres of industrial, avant-garde improvisation, grindcore, and black metal, she partners with Bhenji Ra, Mother of Ballroom House/Western Sydney-based collective SLÉ. behnji is a transdisciplinary artist whose combined practice of dance, video, illustration, and community activation dissects cultural theory, identity, and colonial perspectives to produce multiplicities of spectacle that urge us to imagine alternative models of community and imprint a deep spiritual reckoning within.

The Old Bar presents:

LITURGY (USA)

With guests KILAT & CAUSTIC GRIP

Naarm’s explorative raw black metal trio 𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐓 return to 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐰𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛 in Djilang / Geelong. Acclaimed for their combination of extreme metal with their influences from Nusantara and ancient Javanese imagery, script and traditions; bear witness to the thundering aural experience that is 𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐓 in your town once more.

Joining this lineup from Lutruwita / Tasmania is melodic black metal Atra Vetosus for their first show of two across VIC this weekend, the completion of this calamitous lineup is backed by the ominous locals of the Brutal Death Metal delirium 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 & the Death Sludge tales of horror that is 𝐁𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫.

Poster Design by 𝐃𝐞𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐨 (@𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐨)

Questmaster / Gutless / Josh Wells & Karina Utumo / AGLO / Alloxylon

The first ever Hellraiser Fest, a day and night of ink and raw energy as Hellraiser Tattoo takes over the Bendigo Hotel on Saturday August 16th.