INTERVIEW: Iravu – on Black Metal, Brian Eno, and Overcoming Oppression


The Sound of Perseverance meets (No Pussyfooting) might not be a combination you expected on your musical bingo card for 2023, but Malaysia’s one-person anti-fascist Black Metal force Iravu is not one for limiting artistic statements when inspiration strikes. Since the inception of the project, each release has been thought out yet brimming with raw feeling. The newest album A Fate Worse Than Home has taken the leftist band’s acclaim to the next level, with the art also resonating on an even deeper frequency of multi-layered meanings.

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