Brain Dead (band)
| Brain Dead | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Taiping, Perak, Malaysia |
| Genres | Death metal, thrash metal |
| Occupation(s) | Vocals / Musician |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Labels | Independent, Dark Journey Records, Psychic Scream Entertainment |
| Associated acts | Sil Khannaz, Heloisa, The Pilgrims, Necrotic Chaos, Nemesis, Infectious Maggots, FTG |
| Website | myspace |
| Members | Ein Possessor Malek Hashim Pestilence Lan "Bye" |
| Past members | Shahrin Adik |
Brain Dead is a Malaysian heavy metal band, which originated from Taiping, Perak, Malaysia, and formed in 1988. Brain Dead consists of Ein, Malek, Hashim dan Lan "Bye".
Since its formation, Brain Dead has produced two demos, an album and a split album (with Silent Death). The band went in hiatus after the split-album since 1995. They have now re-activated their status since 2008.
Not many metal fans knew that Malaysia has their own rock and roll movement and has given birth to so many bands during the mid to the late 1970s. The most prominent were Singaporean rock pioneers, Sweet Charity and Kingdom of Rock which were able to record their own album in the late 1970s. At that time, there were no differences between Malaysian and Singaporean acts as both countries were neighbours and shared a lot of common things in term of culture and historical background. By the beginning of the 1980s, rock music got bigger and has been accepted more than before. This resulted to the emergence of many rock/heavy metal groups. Bands like Search, Lefthanded, Ella and The Boys, Rusty Blade, Bloodshed, D'Febian, Metallian, Burnmarks, Wings, Rockers, Crossfire and hundreds more marked their own way in local music industry. Sadly, none of them gained an international success as this is probably due to the lack of originalities where local bands were just imitating Iron Maiden, Loudness, Dio...etc. and furthermore, their album was written in Malay language.
Apart from the rockin' and rollin' development which was considered as 'heavy and exotic' musics in our country for that time, the birth of the fastest and latest brutal musical sensation in America and Europe, known as speed/thrash metal has also landed in Malaysia. The earliest heavy and extreme band was Blackfire from the north of Malaysia, formerly known as Metal Ghost playing hardrock/heavy metal in 1982 before morphing into Blackfire in 1984 and their music direction turned to black metal! Starting from 1987 to the late eighties, a lot of thrash band popping out such Punisher, Nemesis, Saxo, Picagari, Rator, Bacteria, Sil Khannaz, Brain Dead themselves and much more. They only doing cover songs from Venom, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Metal Church, Anthrax, Destruction, Sodom, Kreator and others thrash masters. Brain Dead was one of those surviving eighties bands which was so lucky because got the opportunity to record album and play so many shows at their hometown and the capital city, Kuala Lumpur.
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