BAND: Final Attack
FROM: Jakarta, Indonesia
SONG: Kata Mereka
ALBUM: From Dust and Ashes (tentative release June 2015)
LABEL: Armstretch Records
From Dust and Ashes will be Final Attack’s third full length. The album is an 8 track NYHC-tinged hardcore powerhouse release that will be released by their long time pals at Armstretch Records. Though the cover artwork is not complete yet, they are still shooting for a June release.
The song is sung in Bahasa and continues Final Attack’s tradition of releasing at least one of their songs in their native Bahasa. The rest of the songs on this album are in English.
The gist of the song was explained to us by our amazing buddy Indra who plays guitar for them:
“It’s about how people try so hard to be beautiful and are willing to suffer unthinkable things to attain that “perfection”. They are willing to go through a lot of pain for beauty and in this song we compare that to being a mannequin.”
The album itself is a wholly Indonesian affair with production work done at Masterplan Studio. The record was also mixed and mastered by Toteng, guitarist of Bandung death metal band Forgotten.
LYRICS (Bahasa – English is below)
Keindahan yang terciri rupa
Membuat orang berlomba
Menghamba pada sempurna
Terjebak stigma, hilang logika
Lantas terasa fana
Lantas terasa hampa
Terdomestikasi dan terarah
Mana dirimu, mana getarmu
Yang tanpa polesan dan jiwa manekin
Nilai asli pun terurai berai
Kata mereka, indah harus penuh luka
Kata mereka, indah harus serupa
Terasa fana, menghamba pada rupa
Raga tanpa jiwa
Rebut kendali tanpa pamrih
Hentikan perang yang terus berjibaku
Untuk menjadi dirimu yang bukan abu-abu
English Translation:
Characterized beauty
Making people compete
Slaves of perfection
Trapped in a stigma, loss of logic
Thus feeling perishable
Thus feeling empty
Marginalized and directed
Where is your presence? Where is your vibration?
Without any polish and the soul of a manequin
Thus scattering the real value
They say, beauty is full of scars
They say, beauty must be identical
Feeling perishable, slaves to appearance
Body without a soul
Take it back with no reward
Stop this suicidal war
To become someone that is not grey
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