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Below The Radar 37

Track 12

Sial

"Kita Dilahirkan Untuk Mati"

From Zaman Edan

Hailing from Singapore, Sial's blistering abrasive, loud and primitive sounding hardcore encompasses exactly what it is to be sial! – damned in English and a swear word in Bahasa Melayu (Malay). Sial sings in the language of Singapore's indigenous minority, and challenge a culture and language generally said to be gentle and polite. Commonly described as an idle and passive people until the colonisation of Singapore by the British, Sial takes back the power stripped away by centuries of imperialism and lies.

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