The Flying V at The Adelphi is a metal music oasis where music fans meet with international rockers.
SINGAPORE – Tucked away in the basement of an old mall lies gleaming Singapore’s only heavy metal bar, where music fans brush shoulder-to-shoulder with international rockers who helped pioneer the genre.
Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover was seen sitting at the bar, enjoying a dark Welsh beer ahead of his band’s concert on May 1. Metal music forges a close community, Friedman, 61, told AFP, while “fans of other genres have found good things about metal”. “What shocks me is you get all of these guys who kind of look like you, or they look like me, or they look like regular office guys, especially like Japanese guys and German guys,” said George Kirton, who co-founded the bar.“They still have to wear their shirts and their suits for work. But deep down inside, they’ve still got that heavy metal streak from when they were teenagers,” said the Briton.Songs blare out, ranging from classic 1980s glam metal to thrash, grindcore or math metal.
But in the 1990s, during the global punk revival, the area was also popular among local counterculture groups, including skinheads, punks and metalheads, and was home to a handful of shops selling music merchandise and skateboards.
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