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Artist
Love Me Butch
12+ albums
malaysianpost-hardcoreemocorescreamohardcore
about
Syarul Reza – Vocals Wing Meng – Guitars Kevin Kong – Bass Jana Nair – Drums With a debut album, Enter Posthuman which was released on November 2001, under their belts, the band are riding on the achievement of their victory at the 2002 Anugerah Industri Muzik (Malaysian Music Awards) ceremony as Malaysia’s Best New English Artist, in hopes of better horizons to suit their ambition of taking their music to the international heights. The album was also nominated for the Best Engineered Album and Best Produced English Album categories. Much can be said about this post-hardcore band from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia whose members include four talented, passionate 26-year olds from this country’s various ethnic backgrounds. The common factor of singer Syarul Reza, a traditional Malay, drummer Winder Singh, born into Malaysia’s Sikh community, and Wing Meng and Kevin Kong – the group’s Chinese-born guitarist and bassist respectively. The music of Love Me Butch explores themes as diverse as insecurity, rage, alienation, relationship to serious introspection on global issues such as rape, hatred and humanity. Formed in 1998, two early demos crystallized, the six-track Psychedelic Relic, which featured the earliest known version of the band’s unsung moshpit anthem, “Headfirst (Take Me Down)”, and the split release …With Guns in Our Hands. With those tapes the band culled an early batch of shows around the Kuala Lumpur/Petaling Jaya area and along Malaysia’s west coast, the most importan
