Indonesia’s crust cluster NUCLEARNOISE was established about five years ago in the city of East Cirebon. Strongly inspired by Anti Cimex and Disclose, Nuclearnoise as to date have produced a full-length and a mini-album, and are currently reportedly planning for their third release. You should follow the progress of this band because they are expanding their name in the scene. Here we interview their frontman, Aldi and please keep in your mind that Nuclearnoise is…Distort.Noise.Crust!
- Interview by Atandistorted [June 11, 2023]
1: Up the punx! Tell us the history and band members of Nuclearnoise?
History of the formation of NuclearNoise, at first the name of our band was not Nuclearnoise but Nuclear Voices. Our band was formed not long ago in 2018, the personnel were originally filled by Aldi (vocals), Arie (drums), Rosep (guitar), Egi Sonay (lead guitar) and Faisal (bass). In 2019 there was a proposal from one of the band guitarists from Jakarta to try to design and change the name of our band to Nuclearnoise which is used until now and there are several of our personnel who left the band, namely Egi Sonay (lead guitarist) and Rosep (bassist). It didn’t take long for someone to fill in again, like Senang Bonang on lead guitar, Faisal on bass and Zatnika as guitarist. The vocalist and drummer remain the same, namely Aldi (vocals) and Arie (drums).
2: Please describe the music and sound of Nuclearnoise? What are your influences?
The type of music and sound of the Nuclearnoise band mostly leads to crust and d-beat, a.k.a playing fast. Our influences from the start are Anti Cimex and Disclose.
3: Please explain the subjects and messages written in your lyrics?
Subjects and impressions or messages from our lyrics are mostly about war which means rejecting war because it is very detrimental, killing the lower classes and rebellion against the barbarity of the system that makes humans starve.
4: What has Nuclearnoise recorded and released so far?
So far Nuclearnoise has made one album and a mini album. The first album contains 9 of our songs and 1 cover of the legendary band Disclose entitled Conquest, and our mini album contains 6 songs in which 5 songs of our own creation and a cover from Anti Cimex entitled Svalvedioxid.
5: Tell us some of your gigs and live show events?
We have done the Ciaumajakuning Tour and the Central Java Tour, maybe for now we rarely participate in shows because one of our personnel, Dillay, as a vocal, finds it difficult to take time off or regular holidays to work under the auspices of a corporate. Maybe next year the capital funds for the tour will already be there, we really want to go on a tour to Malaysia and Myanmar.
6: Some reports about the punk/crust scene around your area?
The scene in our area, especially East Cirebon, because we come from the end of Cirebon, the border of Central Java, West Java, it’s quite busy, thank God, for now it’s still solid and hopefully in the future it will be always like this.
7: What is “punk” based on your understanding?
In our opinion Punk is not just a musical genre but in our opinion Punk is a place where we can learn from each other and understand what solidarity is between friends and in our opinion Punk has many lessons that we can take such as being able to exchange ideas and how to do it we can be well looked after by the Punk community for us a large part of life, and Punk must learn more about how we can make works that can make us a vessel for making a living You all can be punk but there are still limitations. Punk has the future, no problem, do you want to work under the auspices of a corporate, want to be under the auspices of the boss, of course, be a smart punk.
8: Thank you. What is the next release and future plan of Nuclearnoise?
For this year, maybe we will release our third album which are mixed with the songs on previous mini album, thank you!