THE EARLY YEARS
Tanak Bihis is a one-man depressive suicidal black metal band formed in 2015, originating from Sarawak, Malaysia. The whole thing was started mainly to function as a side-project by Dean Overkill (frontman of the Malaysian thrash metal act Velhalla) as a way to experiment his ideas on raw black metal styles. However in 2015 he recorded the demo "Jeran Nuju Bala Iblis" which contained 4 tracks, which was released in the same year witnessed the ever-growing seriousness of Tanak Bihis to work as an actual band and not just a side-project.
THE RISE OF SARAWAKIAN DSBM
Tanak Bihis was deemed the pioneer of the DSBM genre in Sarawak, according to most sources at the time. Fanzine like Hermyth Zine (Melaka) began recognizing Tanak Bihis for this and was soon featured on one of the zine's issues back in 2017. Tanak Bihis was already busy working on the single "Hear Me No More" and was included in the 2018 full demo "Hear Me No More" which saw a totally obvious traits of a DSBM-driven act. This made Tanak Bihis stand in the frontline of the Sarawakian DSBM scene and gained a reputation of being the only one of its kind at the time before giving way to more DSBM acts such as Serenity and Fear Of Existence in the later years.
The year 2019, however saw a rather low-key Tanak Bihis with the release of "The Sad Chapter". This record featured a more relaxed and less-aggressive kind of atmospheric/ambient black metal style while preserving the rawness of DSBM. "The Sad Chapter" was released under Dakah Peramo Production in CD format.
ODD EPISODES AND COLLABORATIONS
There were strange periods in Tanak Bihis' history especially throughout late 2019 up to early 2020 when Dean decided to experiment on a more Satanic approach for Tanak Bihis. This was undeniable when the logo had been changed and to top it all off, released the single "The Impaler" which saw the very first collaboration between Tanak Bihis and Serenity. However the result wasn't prominent enough to overshadow Tanak Bihis' DSBM-era, so Dean decided to revert to the depressive suicidal imagery shortly before he recorded and released "The Sad Chapter" the same year.