[Book] Labour of Love And Hate

Salam 'alaikum,

So, how's your fasting so far, peeps? So far so good, yes? Inshallah... :)

Well, I wanna share to you this amazing book in which I & Rinsdark were being interviewed. As my previous entry on December last year titled, "Official trailer for the book Labour of Love & Hate." / a.k.a LOLAH, I shared an info about the upcoming book project done by the siblings John Resborn & Lena Resborn from Sweden. The book itself tells about the underground scene in Southeast Asia, from the lifestyle, the music, the fashion till the mission behind the music. Aaand my band Gelap was one of the interviewees in that book. John & Lena interviewed me & Rinsdark [We both are the vocalists of Gelap] in around late March, 2009 [I was still single that time, 2 weeks to go before my marriage, hehehe].

And after 3 years running, finally the book is ready to be released! And holaa...! There I am inside the book! ^___^

This is me inside of the pages in this book

Me & Rinsdark with the book Labour of Love & Hate. Wohooo!

 
The shocking news is that, several copies of this book have been handed over to some of the rocking legends of underground scene across the world such as Max Cavalera [Sepultura], Randy Blythe [Lamb of God], Marilyn Manson, Dez Fafara [Devil Driver], Adam Dutkiewicz [Killswitch Engage] and other bands like Trivium, Slayer, Gojira, Machine Head etc. Aaaakkk!! I think I wanna faint out knowing that they actually have the book! *tari pisang*

Below are some pics about LOLAH articles in media around Sweden

Me inside their website

Me & Rinsdark in an article of one Sweden Magazine :)

The mag index

Another Sweden media promoting the LOLAH book

Left: Bang Ombat [@abuskull] & right is me :)

Purgatory [@purgatorymogsaw]

I really hope someday this book can be found in any bookstore in Jakarta. Right now, the book can only be found in one of my metalhead friends in Bandung named Zemo Cabalero. If you wanna buy it, just click the link & send him message. He also sell the t-shirt [yeaay!].

I'm proud. We're proud. After the booming video titled "Global Metal" [You can search the video in Youtube. The length of the video is quite long so it's divided into some parts of the video. One of the video is this.], now the underground scene from Southeast Asia is re-raised up to the surface once again by these two amazing siblings through their book :)

This harsh music & this scene has being my air since God knows when. I love metal & gothic music so much! Let's keep metal alive!

Wassalam,

G.

 New video of LOLAH from the Metaltown 2012

Max Cavalera of Sepultura [ex] & Soulfly [Now]

Dave from Machine Head

Dez Fafara from Devil Driver

Duplantier Brothers from Gojira

King of Slayer!!

Lamb of God !!

Marylin Manson!!

Matt from Trivium

Official trailer for the book Labour of Love & Hate.

Check this official trailer video for the book "Labour of Love & Hate". Now on Youtube.

Fave quote of today:
"METAL MADE IN ASIA!!"

G.

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Woah!

I just found this picture from John Resborn's facebook. He and his sister - Lena Resborn - has been doing their book project titled "Labour of Love and Hate" since 2009. After 3 fucking years, finally the book is soon to be released.

Btw, me and Rinsdark were being interviewed on around March 2009 for this book project, we represented our band (my ex-band now) Gelap. The book itself tells about underground music in Southeast Asia (Or maybe all Asia? Well I'm not quite sure). They were interested to interview me maybe because I'm a few of those metalhead muslimah. They asked several questions about my involvement in underground scene to my belief as muslimah and my hijab. Yesterday I have done the proof reading of my interview and I have confirmed to them that the article about me is OK to print. So cross your finger, the book might be handed to me several weeks ahead :)

Meanwhile, the pic you see above is an article written in one of the Swedish newspapers about the project. (narsis dikit ngga dosa yaaaa, hehehe). Can't wait to read their book. Must be enlightening! ^^

G.

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

Finally, the last sequel of Harry Potter [Indonesia-translated] has been released in January 14, midnight in all official bookstores all over the country. I myself got the book in the morning straightly after the Gramedia Kelapa Gading Mall was open.

It's about the time when The Chosen One; Harry Potter starts his journey to destroy all 4 remaining Horcruxes of Lord Voldermort so he can seize the possibility to kill Voldemort - who is so close to get what people call immortality life because of his 7 Horcruxes [will be eight with his own entity], there are Tom Riddle's diary [Which has been destroyed by Harry in the Chamber of Secret in his second grade at Hogwarts], Marvolo Gaunt's Slytherin ring [already been destroyed too by Albus Dumbledore, but with sacrificing his right hand], Slytherin's necklace, Helga Hufflepuff's trophy, Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem, Nagini [Voldemort's snake]
and half of Harry Potter's life.

Harry - accompanied by Ron and Hermione - doesn't go back to Hogwarts anymore. He makes some travels to some places such as Godric Hollow [His house where his parents had lived. And later it also discovered the old tale about the three Hallows that can beat death]. The the three fellas continue their journey to Forest of Dean, Xeno Lovegood's house, Malfoy's house, Bill & Fleur's cottage, Gringotts until they go to Hogwarts to find another Horcrux based on what Harry saw in her mind which is connected with Voldemort's.

The battle in Hogwarts is unbearable. Many lives been sacked to death, including the people Harry loves so much: Mad-Eye Moody, Hedwig [Harry's owl], Fred Weasley, Nymphadora Tonks, Remus Lupin, Dobby [Hogwarts' elf] and Colin Creevy. One shocking moment is where Voldemort kills Snape in order to take control of the Elder Wand [Voldemort thinks The Elder Wand is belong to Snape, when the fact is that wand is belong to Harry himself because he had beat Malfoy - the former master of Elder Wand]. In dying condition, Snape gives his memories to Harry, and that is the time when Harry finally realizes who Severus Snape really is. Snape never cheat on Dumbledore, that he remains loyal to him even until he dead.

When Voldemort gives Harry one-hour time to think, Harry realizes that he shouldn't sacrifice any more innocent life, he should be the one who fight Voldemort. He himself, not Ron, not even Hermione or the Order of the Phoenix or Dumbledore's Army. So he - silently - goes to forbidden forest to face Voldemort. Before they meet, Harry opened the snitch that Dumbledore had inherited to him and he saw his mom, dad, Lupin & Sirius came out from the Resurrection Stone and encouraged him. Feel a bit secure, he walks himself to Voldemort

And Voldemort kills him with Avada Kedavra curse, but strangely... Harry wasn't die. Why's that so?

Hmmm... I can't tell you more for I know I will throw the surprising thing out from you. So you'd better got to the bookstore and get one for yourself... NOW!!! lol

_G_