Ensena is a breath of fresh air. This post-metal quartet from the forests of Cipanas, West Java, play pummeling, heavy music with a skill that comes from years of refining your sound. Their latest single, "Nocturnal," a song that originally appeared on their split with the Singapore post-metal band Radiant Archery, is the kind of thing you want to play on headphones late at night when everyone else in the house is fast asleep.The song clocks in at almost 11 minutes and it hits you with one heavy as hell riff after another. But in there, between the blast beats and growled vocals, are these nice clean breaks that almost serve as a rest from the barrage of distorted guitars.The video features a mysterious woman in black wandering through a forest that overlooks the city of Cipanas. The whole thing is shot in black and white and it feels deeply unsettling and claustrophobic. I don't know if Ensena is going to be the breakout band of Indonesia's metal scene just yet, but, after the tragic demise of sludge metal act Ghaust in 2016, it's refreshing to see these boys from Cipanas carrying the torch of epic metal in Indonesia.
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