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One of the most interesting international reactions upon Joko Widodo’s victory as the president of Indonesia for 2014-2019 came from the world’s metalheads. Randy Blythe, the front man of Lamb of God –one of Joko Widodo’s favorite metal bands– enthusiastically congratulated and informed through his Instagram: “This is the world’s first heavy metal president, and might be the only one who is openly a metalhead”.

Imagine, Blythe wrote, "This is THE ONLY PRESIDENT IN THE WORLD with whom you can sit down and argue about which Slayer record is the best." Congratulations from world’s musicians upon Jokowi’s –as he is popularly called– victory as the Indonesian president, have indeed gave a unique spark to Indonesia’s modern politics world. Alas, Jokowi’s metalhead side could as well reflect the tip of an iceberg of the Metal music subculture in Indonesia. It sounds paradoxical to say that Metal music in Indonesia has “silently” grown into a massive subculture, if not to say worldwide; as the music is loaded with loudness and riots. How its massiveness in Indonesia could grew “silently”? Of course, the term is a figure of speech. Indonesia’s metal subculture bore their musical riots silently, because they must remain underground. But surely there’s something to be said about metal subculture surface performance in Indonesia.