FAQ#69: Whats up with Kah-Roe-Shi lately?

We had no choice than to take some sweet time working on the collaboration with Fall To Their Death and split LP/CD with Trigger Mortis. Perhaps you will see a new line of limited merchs along the way. But that would have to wait for our official artist Revan and Morgan coming back from their tour with the greencore gods, Raja Singa. Anyway, Embrace distro just put a new batch of KRS's Dejavu Beirut tshirts if you hate to wait. Our website is not updated as we might change the whole layout later, but you could always check out our active blog here. We have a number of Shi cds that we would like to donate or sell at a very cheap wholesale price for local collective and label/distro, please get in touch. No, we dont have any upcoming gigs yet, DIY organizers dont hesitate on trying to book us.

Should any label/distro/collective/gig organizers/you need to contact us: unionofslaves@gmail.com / 013 2497199 (Kid).

Conquest for Death (and the long beard Robert with Kah-Roe-Shi's t-shirt!).

Crux's SE Asia (Malaysian leg) tour report featured in Maximum Rock n Roll #307

"Our Malaysian shows all had pretty varied line-ups and definitely featured some of the best bands of the tour. Getting to play with Carburetor Dung in Penang was a great honour, as they have been playing since the early 90's, and are seen by many as the forefathers of punk in Malaysia. That particular show was full of skinheads - something I certainly didnt expect to see here in Asia, but I was told that while there had been problems with racist-skins in the past (so called brown-power skins), this particular group was the anti-fascist variety (a good thing for us in view of our Vietnamese-born vocalist). My favorite band in Malaysia (and perhaps of the whole tour) was Kah-Roe-Shi, who pounded out some heavy-as-fukk hardcore sludge in the vein of His Hero Is Gone. Other awesome bands included: Infinite Delay (Discordance Axis-style grind), Daghila (fast, heavy, screamo) and Blood On Wedding Dress (power violence/thrash)."

- by Lex (Crux's bassist)

We would recommend you buying MRR's issue December 2008 to read the whole report of their tour.

Apart from the more known underground music scene in Sabah, we rarely heard anything from Sarawak. I only knew few bands like Kurasakuasa (Mass Separation played a gig with them years ago), Restart and of course the defunct Buddy Holly zine, Fist of Fury (RIP, now The Times?) and who can forget Sputum (grindcore used to be cooler than indie). And suddenly Kuching, Sarawak now is in the DIY bands touring circuit! Check out their community blog run by Yuen and his friends. 'Midin' distro anyone?http://borneodiyhcpunk.wordpress.com/

Oh, ya don't forget to google what 'Midin' means. Conquest for obscure punks!

Straightjacket Nation (80’s fueled hardcore punk from Melbourne, Australia)

South East Asia tour preliminary dates:

17th February 2009 - 1st March 2009 -

Tues 17th - Fly in to KL then to Jakarta
Wed 18th- Indonesia
Thurs 19th- Indonesia
Fri 20th- Indonesia
Sat 21st- Indonesia
Sun 22nd- Indonesia
Mon 23rd- Indonesia
Tues 24th- Free
Wed 25th- Penang
Thurs 26th- Free
Fri 27th- KL
Sat 28th- Singapore
Sun 1st- Fly out

For more infos:
http://culthardcore.org/straightjacketnation
http://www.myspace.com/straightjacketnationseasiatour
http://www.garageband.com/artist/straightjacketnation

Kah-Roe-Shi 'Shi' CD review on Bebal #4

Didatangkan dalam kain kecil berlogo band menampilkan kelainan dalam rilisan-rilisan tempatan yang lain. Kah Roe Shi dalam bahasa Jepun bermaksud mati kerana kerja. Melihat maksudnya sudah membayangi stand band ini. Track pertama dibuka dgn spoken word yang sayang tidak disertakan dalam lirik mereka. Band ini banyak mengadaptasi irama dark crust dgn pengaruh kuat band-band seperti HHIG, Tragedy, From Ashes Rise etc dan ditambah dengan riffing dan stroke drum yang pelbagai menjadikan ia menarik dari struktur muzikal mereka.Gaya dan penjelasan lirik yang cukup bijak sarat dengan kritik-kritik politik yang begitu jelas. Band tempatan yang patut diberi perhatian!!