Biography
Katastrov formed in Bandung, Indonesia in June 2016. Initiated by Arief (guitar) who needs an outlet to channel and accommodate different musical ideas and aspirations from his other bands. Shortly after, Arief invited Roma (vocals) who are his bandmate in the previous band, Over Again who also share the same musical interests. After a long process of incubation, which includes writing materials and deciding band’s musical direction, they invited Satria (drums) who also play with Arief on his previous band Kaladerau to join and complete the formation in Katastrov.
Katastrov name is taken from the word catastrophe, which represents their apocalyptic nuanced music. Heavy and thick guitar distortion, frantic shouts and emotive vocals and wide and gigantic sounded drums are their identity.
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Katastrov musical style is much inspired by hard rock or proto-metal acts like Black Sabbath and Motörhead mixed with the punk/hardcore signature drum beat and simple guitar riffs in the veins of Discharge or Doom wrapped with the roughness and harshness guitar sound ala early 90’s Swedish death metal such as Entombed and At the Gates.
On Kultus EP lyrics department they summarize issues surrounding the events and phenomena that occur around the social community in Indonesia for a few years back. Sinister, protest and anger lyrics poured with simple and straightforward without too many metaphors deliberately written with the intention to enables listeners to get the essence of the themes raised. Kultus is titled as it feels the word relate the most to represent the contents matter on this album, where human and their behavior are the subject and also the object for the album.
In December 2016 Katastrov recorded 6 songs for the Kultus EP in Funhouse Studio, Bandung. The recording and mastering process took 3 months long which finished in the middle of March 2017. All songs in Kultus EP was recorded, mixed and mastered by Edo Djatmika from Funhouse Studio, Bandung. Katastrov’s Kultus EP was released on cassette by Disaster Records, CD format by HI-TENSION Records and digital by RoyalYawns in June 2017.
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