Carnivored

Country of origin: Indonesia Location: Tangerang, Banten Status: Active Formed in: 2006 Genre: Death Metal Lyrical themes: Social-Politics, War, Religion Current label: Rottrevore Records Years active: 2006-present   Carnivored, a Death Metal band from Tangerang, Indonesia was beginning since the end of 2006. It all started from the friendship of four young people who are passionate in Death Metal music. They are Hansen Fallah Matsuka who later became a Vocalist, Ario Nugroho later became a Guitarist, Gilang Ramadhan later became a Bassist, and then Geotama Riamputra later became the Drummer. The Carnivored name itself was originated from a term PARAGON CARNIVORE which means “a perfect carnivore”. This name was later shortened to CARNIVORED, where the word “Carnivore” means “a flesh-eater” and the additional “-ed” used to make the meaning as “being carnivored”. Since it was first formed, Carnivored started making some songs under the influence of Death Metal bands such as: Decapitated, Vader, Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse, etc, and managed to record three pieces of the song entitled “Moral Degradation”, “Infinite Destruction”, and “Death”. Armed with 3 pieces of the song, they began to perform stage to stage in a small and local underground scene in Jakarta and the other surrounding areas. As the performing became more intense and frequent in various stages, in the Year 2008, Rottrevore Records (an Indonesian-based Death Metal record label) began to know about the band’s existence and was interested in releasing their first album. But the album process was not going smoothly. Some obstacles came up, ranging from personnel changes that occurred several times, until the other problems that forced Carnivored to being under hiatus for about a year. In 2009, still with the same spirit to release their first album, Ario, together with Gilang tried to rebuild the band again, they started to look for personnel replacement to fill the empty positions in drums and vocals. Then they invited Ronald (from One Shot One Kill) and Oces (from Maia), and completing the formations of Carnivored which consisted of Ario Nugroho as a Guitarist, Gilang Ramadhan as a Bassist, Ronald Alexander Radja Haba as a Vocalist, Rachmat “Oces” Mukti as a Drummer. With the new formation, Carnivored got up and started exploring underground local stages in Jakarta and other cities again and also continued the process of their first album. In 2012, Carnivored has been successfully released their debut album entitled Revival under Rottrevore Record for Indonesian region only. The album contained 10 tracks wrapped with a heavy ambience, aggressive and catchy guitar riffs, and also using tight drum beats and vocal patterns.