Laang 冷 self-classify as “black metal from Taiwan based on the trauma of a survivor”. Singer and guitarist Haitao Yang started the project in 2018, 18 months after he was declared medically dead: the Taiwanese-Norwegian musician was shot during an attempted carjacking.
“I was in the US at the time,” Haitao, now based in Tennessee, tells Hammer. “I was returning to my car in a car park, and there were two people standing next to it I didn’t know. I just remember one of them walking towards me and then I was on the ground, and I couldn’t feel anything. It just felt very cold, very numb.”
