Irfan Rotor Died, Indonesia Metal Community Grieves

Irfan Rotor (Facebok: Irfan Rotor Sembiring)

JAKARTA - Dark clouds surrounded the metal world in the country. One of his best sons, Irfan Sembiring, the frontman of the Rotor band, died.

So far, there has been no detailed news regarding the death of a religious man who studied Islam since 1997. According to a chain message from one of his nephews, Jessica Sinh, Irfan died while sleeping.

The news of the death of the vocalist and guitarist of Rotor, one of which was also expressed by senior music observer Denny MR on his social media.

"RIP Irfan Sembiring Rotor", wrote Denny MR.

He also prayed that Irfan would be calm by God's side.

"Goodbye Tadz, sorry when the launch of the vinyl Behind The 8th Ball was unable to attend. Good luck there. Amin".

Rotor recently re-released the debut album Behind The 8th Ball on vinyl (LPs) in early January yesterday.

Released via independent record label Elevation Records, the album is available in a limited number of 313 copies.

Behind the 8th Ball was first released in 1993 on cassette via AIRO Records. 450 thousand copies were sold, this figure was closer to the number of mainstream pop bands at that time.

Irfan Rotor is the first wave metal band generation in Jakarta. They were asked to open the Metallica concert in Lebak Bulus in the same year.

Goodbye Irfan Sembiring ...