BW&BK Exclusive: JAKKARTA Featuring BIF NAKED - "Full-On, Balls To The Wall, Screaming Metal"
January 30, 2008, 16 years ago
As previously reported, Canadian rock icon BIF NAKED has teamed up with guitarist The Machine for a new full-on metal project called JAKKARTA. BW&BK; recently caught up with Machine to discuss the project. The following is an excerpt from the story:
Songwriting for the Jakkarta debut is underway, and anyone who is expecting a distortion heavy version of Superbeautifulmonster or I Bificus is warned to check his/her expectations at the door. Asked to describe the Jakkarta sound as he hears it, Machine stops to consider before answering.
“That’s a good one. All I can say it’s fresh, it’s something new. I’m sure you hear every couple years a label saying the same thing about a new band, but this new music is taking Bif to a level that she always wanted to go to but never had the chance. It’s full-on, balls to the wall, screaming metal. Take the concepts of Pantera, Arch Enemy, Zakk and Dime and Skolnick, put them all in a package with Bif and you’ve got Jakkarta. I have the liberty to basically come up with anything, so I’ve been writing a lot of stuff. I turn in CDs of five or six songs every couple weeks and it’s turning out really interesting. Bif hasn’t actually recorded anything at this point. This is mainly a ‘Let’s see what The Machine can produce…’ kind of thing. Management wants to know who this guy that came out of the middle of nowhere is, which is fine with me. People that Bif knows have been asking her when the next Bif album is coming out and she tells them ‘It’s not, I’m doing the Jakkarta record.’ She’s described it to them as a 16 year old girl going nuts and they don’t know what the hell to make of that (laughs).”For the complete story go to this location.
