Zi Factor

An original metal band from the smoldering tropical couldron that is Indonesia. Like Iron Man meets the Dark Night in a thunderstorm this side of the Bermuda Triangle, ZiFactor is Indonesian metal with crushingly heavy grooves and tribalistic beats, exotic mosh worthy riffs and incredible shredding twin guitars. Gathering influences from the pantheon of metal like Pantera, Sepultura to A7X and System of A Down and old school legends like Led Zep to Iron Maiden but spitting it back out with a twist of their own! And now exploding with their own brand of metal called Tribal Core in their epic mini EP debut - Kill Paradigm in 2008. An intricate blend of east meets west, head bang inducing cacophony of sound, heartfelt ravings of the soul and mind bending over the top twin guitar attack! (Lyrics are mostly in English, album available in i-tunes & cdbaby.com.)

"Zi Factor menyebut musiknya Tribal Core, yaitu perpaduan old school & nu school metal diramu dengan nuansa tradisional musik Indonesia seperti sunda, jawa, melayu, sumatra, batak, bali, kalimantan secara modern. Memainkan riff-riff dan groove-groove tribal modern dengan not-not etnis Indonesia super cepat dan twisted melalui gitar Ezra dan Eddy Simanjuntak. Unik, dengan 3 vokalist, dari lantunan powerful tenggorokkan Iwan dan 'harmonisasi' growling Bopaq dan shouter Tyo didukung dentuman bass Uya dan hentakkan tribal drums Adanz."

It began way back in the 90's in Hawaii. The brothers Ezra & Eddy both guitarist looking for their own style explored the sound of Indonesian traditional tribal music in metal. But after a long twisted life it was in Indonesia that they got together to form ZiFactor. It was 2002, the idea was a crushing & brain melting metal band with the sound of Indonesia that talks honestly of bitterness, hope & life here. And a genre that was to be called Tribal Core was born.

After a coupla years playing without permanent members, helped out by Tyo the shouter and various sessionists, at the end of 2005, the brothers met up Bopaq, a growler & Iwan a vocalist with 3 previous band albums (Wahh) & Bopaq's brother, Uya the bassist to form the current power line-up. They started recording the debut mini album 'Kill paradigm' with 7 songs + 1 bonus guitar shred in early 2006 at Eddy's bedroom. Adanz the drummer, joined later in February 2008. The band is a total d.i.y band. All recording, mixing & mastering, video, website, enhanced DVDs & CDs, contents, artwork, covers etc were all done by the band & their team of creative misfits.

A limited edition of the album was released in Dec '07 under their own self-created, self financed low budget label, Unsound Records, in a joint-venture with PRS SonyBmg for local distribution. Unsound Records is also looking for labels out there preferably metal or indie oriented to release ZiFactor outside of Indonesia. The album is also available now at CDBaby.com for only US $12.95.