Band info

Band: 1984
Album: ‘Anastasis The Arsonist insignia‘
Genre: crust
Released: October 16th, 2025
Location: Indonesia

Review

Welcome all, dear listeners and haters, checking on us on this fine day. We’ve got some powerful distortion to cheer up any day going downhill with some energy drums and tasty riffs; if this is what you ordered, better keep reading and prepare for a short but hooking listen. Today, we bring some healthy dose of well-baked blackened crust with a pinch of death metal here and there, coming from East Java, Indonesia: 1984. These guys have been around not so long ago; you should definitely check out ‘Dystopia‘.

This is ‘Anastasis The Arsonist insignia‘, an EP comprised of 4 songs (one of them was originally a single, “Resital Jelaga Sen jakala“), that was just released on the 16th of October, and keeps the big picture on a path where previous works from the band left the baton to pass. A very straightforward work, it keeps the chill and brutality of the frame the work with, theme and art direction-wise wise for the visuals summoning violence and death a-la Discharge or Wolfbrigade, a hail of bullets, bones and thorns for the chants of utter mayhem we are presented with.

Mixing literary references to (cosmic) horror such as Lovecraft’s Cthulhu with political commentary pointing at real life’s own terrors in both English and Indonesian, the EP starts explosively with “Omnis lex talionis“, with an spearheading guitar work, either blasting you away or mesmerizing you, using all of the potential of each style they work within and some more, showing great compositional efforts in the ups and downs. All of this is accomplished to paint a vivid image from an organic sound, each song kicking you forward into a desolate hellscape.

Other links and platforms:

BC: https://1984crust.bandcamp.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/1984.noise/