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High Tension (Karina Utomo)
Turning Heads episode 26 features an interview with Karina Utomo from Melbourne metal band High Tension.
Karina co-founded the band in 2012 with guitarist Ash Pegram, who she'd previously played with in Canberra band Young and Restless. Their first album, Death Beat, came out in 2013 via Cooking Vinyl Australia.
Their popularity grew with 2015's Bully, which saw them land a spot on the 2016 Laneway tour and establish a large international following.
Following Bully, Pegram was replaced by guitarist Mike Deslandes, while Lauren Hammel joined as the band's new drummer (Karina and bass player Matt Weston are the band's two remaining original members).
The band's next album, Purge, arrived in mid-2018 and it was their heaviest to date. Karina's lyrics focus on the anti-communist purge in her home country of Indonesia, which occurred in 1965-66 and led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of members of the communist party at the hands of the military and Muslim groups under the orders of General Suharto.
In the podcast, we speak about the impacts of the coronavirus restrictions on the arts in Australia and the themes that informed Purge.
Turning heads is recorded on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation; the traditional custodians of the land. I pay my respects to their elders past and present, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded.
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By Augustus WelbyTurning Heads episode 26 features an interview with Karina Utomo from Melbourne metal band High Tension.
Karina co-founded the band in 2012 with guitarist Ash Pegram, who she'd previously played with in Canberra band Young and Restless. Their first album, Death Beat, came out in 2013 via Cooking Vinyl Australia.
Their popularity grew with 2015's Bully, which saw them land a spot on the 2016 Laneway tour and establish a large international following.
Following Bully, Pegram was replaced by guitarist Mike Deslandes, while Lauren Hammel joined as the band's new drummer (Karina and bass player Matt Weston are the band's two remaining original members).
The band's next album, Purge, arrived in mid-2018 and it was their heaviest to date. Karina's lyrics focus on the anti-communist purge in her home country of Indonesia, which occurred in 1965-66 and led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of members of the communist party at the hands of the military and Muslim groups under the orders of General Suharto.
In the podcast, we speak about the impacts of the coronavirus restrictions on the arts in Australia and the themes that informed Purge.
Turning heads is recorded on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation; the traditional custodians of the land. I pay my respects to their elders past and present, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded.