Interview with Dying Embrace
May 20, 2012 – 12:00 PM | No Comment

Dying Embrace are India’s first extreme metal band. After disbanding in 2001, they got back together last year. Their entire discography will be released soon by a French label, Legion of Death Records. I spoke …

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BLAKC announce release date for their second album “MotheredLand”
May 19, 2012 – 9:42 AM | No Comment

Mumbai Hard/Ambient Rock band BLAKC will release their second album “MotheredLand” on 3rd June at Blue Frog, Mumbai.

“As you can see in the album cover, the idea is that there are sheep and there are wolves” said Anish Menon, guitarist of BLAKC “The wolves do their best to hide the truth from the sheep, but if the truth comes out they put a gun to your head to shut you up. Its along the lines of the ‘see no evil, hear no evil speak no evil’ motif”

The album was recorded at Yashraj studios, mixed by Shantanu Hudlikar (Yashraj) and Keshav Dhar (Skyharbor) and mastered by Chris Athens (AC/DC, Coldplay) at Sterling Studios, New York.

The track list for “MotheredLand” is

Bitten
The Dreamcast
Agenda
Peddler Of Rainbows
Untitled
Angry Song
Blacklisted
Storm
Paperdoll
Porcelain (Carpenters Don’t Fuck)

Pre-order the album here

Watch the video for their single “Untitled” below

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Watch: Lucid Recess – ‘Changes Are Sold’
May 5, 2012 – 9:02 PM | No Comment

Guwahati Alternative Metal band, Lucid Recess have released a video for their new single ‘Changes Are Sold’ . The video has been produced by Creovaent Productions, a production house from Guwahati that has also worked …

Chris Adler hand-picks SKYHARBOR to play exclusive show with LAMB OF GOD
May 4, 2012 – 12:17 PM | 2 Comments
Chris Adler hand-picks SKYHARBOR to play exclusive show with LAMB OF GOD

Skyharbor have announced that they are to play an exclusive one-off show with US Metal titans LAMB OF GOD, this May 26th in Bangalore, INDIA.

The band were hand-picked for the show, as LAMB OF GOD’s …

Lucid Recess to Release New Song and Video on 4th May
April 27, 2012 – 9:43 PM | No Comment
Lucid Recess to Release New Song and Video on 4th May

Lucid Recess will be releasing their new single ‘Changes Are Sold’ on 4th May. The single is the theme song of ‘2nd Guwahati International Short Film Festival, 2012’ and is from their upcoming album to …

Album Review: Skyharbor – Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos
April 23, 2012 – 7:24 AM | One Comment
Album Review: Skyharbor – Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos

2012 is slowly shaping up to be a great year for Indiean bands. Many of the releases that were on our list of bands to watch out for in 2012 have released their long awaited …

Quote of the Day
April 21, 2012 – 7:45 PM | 2 Comments
Quote of the Day

“We are extremely sad to inform this to our fans in India that our Tour of India has been called off as the visas for 3 of the members were refused today by the Indian …

Paradigm Shift Release Debut Album Coalescence
April 20, 2012 – 2:34 PM | 2 Comments
Paradigm Shift Release Debut Album Coalescence

Paradigm Shift is a Hindi Progressive Rock band based out of Mumbai, India. Their debut album ‘Coalescence’ promises to bring back the traditional Hindustani and Carnatic Indian classical music to fuse with Contemporary Progressive Rock. …

Poetic Metal band Azazeel release video for ‘Live Forever’
April 19, 2012 – 4:29 AM | No Comment
Poetic Metal band Azazeel release video for ‘Live Forever’

Kerala rock scene has been somewhat lying dormant since Kannur Metal band The Downtroddence released self produced debut video for ‘Shiva’ which topped IRMP3’s video of the year list last year (this apart from folk …

The Tilt Festival, Mumbai 20th – 22nd April
April 18, 2012 – 9:55 PM | No Comment
The Tilt Festival, Mumbai 20th – 22nd April

This weekend (20th – 22nd April), three of Mumbai’s prestigious neighbouring watering holes – Busaba, Cafe Zoe and Blue Frog – play host to The TiLT Festival in its new avatar: Mumbai’s first “urban culture …

Kryptos confirmed for In Flammen Open Air, Germany
April 18, 2012 – 10:39 AM | No Comment
Kryptos confirmed for In Flammen Open Air, Germany

Banglore based metal band Kryptos have been confirmed for In Flammen Open Air 2012 in Torgau, Germany.
‘‘Achtung metalheads! We have been confirmed to play at In Flammen Open Air in Torgau, Germany for the …

Review: Agnostic – Morbid Embracement
April 17, 2012 – 9:00 AM | No Comment
Review: Agnostic – Morbid Embracement

There isn’t a dearth of metal bands in India, but it’s hard to find good ones. Guwahati based death metal quintet Agnostic tops my list of best death Metal bands to have emerged since IIIrd …

Lamb of god to headline Nokia ALIVE- Palace Grounds, Bangalore, May 26th
April 16, 2012 – 2:52 PM | No Comment
Lamb of god to headline Nokia ALIVE- Palace Grounds, Bangalore, May 26th

UPDATE: Book tickets here. or Here .
It’s raining heavy metal in Bangalore this summer. With American death metal legends NILE scheduled to play at E-Zone Club along with Indian heavyweights like Bhayanak Maut and Undying …

Them Clones bassist Clarence Gonsalves passes away at 27
April 13, 2012 – 12:36 PM | 9 Comments
Them Clones bassist Clarence Gonsalves passes away at 27

Clarence Gonsalves, Bassist of Delhi based alternative rock band Them Clones (Joint Family, Level 9, Artistes Unlimited.) passed away today (April 13th) at the age of 27. His band issued the following statement:
After battling it …

Kreator to Co-Headline Bangalore Open Air with Iced Earth – June 16th
April 12, 2012 – 10:16 PM | 13 Comments
Kreator to Co-Headline Bangalore Open Air with Iced Earth – June 16th

Organizers of Bangalore Open Air announced today that legendary German thrash metal band Kreator will co-headline the festival along with US metal band Iced Earth. The announcement reads:
“Here is the news you’ve all …

Gig Alert: 1st IMPHAL METAL CONVENTION: METAL AGE RELOADED FESTIVAL
April 10, 2012 – 7:18 PM | No Comment
Gig Alert: 1st IMPHAL METAL CONVENTION: METAL AGE RELOADED FESTIVAL

Come 14th April and Imphal will witness a unique musical event: The 1st IMPHAL  METAL CONVENTION- METAL AGE RELOADED. For starters, this event will mark the official reunion of POST MARK. Formed way back in …

Watch: Allegro Fudge, Sanjeev Thomas & Electric Mice
April 9, 2012 – 11:18 PM | No Comment
Watch: Allegro Fudge, Sanjeev Thomas & Electric Mice

Bangalore based contemporary acoustic band Allegro Fudge has been making much news lately. After the successful rendition of Aerosmith’s Janie’s got a Gun the band has been striking the right chord with more cover songs. …

WATCH: ‘Khoye hain’ by Safar
April 8, 2012 – 9:20 AM | No Comment
WATCH: ‘Khoye hain’ by Safar

Hindi rock band Safar is back after a hiatus of a good 3 years and inaugurates its come back with the release of their official music video ‘Khoye hain’. ‘Khoye Hain’ is the latest track …

Iced Earth to co-headline ‘Bangalore Open Air’
April 6, 2012 – 10:22 PM | 13 Comments
Iced Earth to co-headline ‘Bangalore Open Air’

Finally this is really happening, Bangalore open Air a brainchild of Kryptos manager Salman U Syed just announced the first co-headliners of the festival which will be held at the Palace grounds, Bangalore on June …

Petrichor release new single ‘Dissonance’ from upcoming debut EP
April 5, 2012 – 11:07 AM | No Comment
Petrichor release new single ‘Dissonance’ from upcoming debut EP

Petrichor, a Mumbai based extreme progressive metal band released their first single ‘Dissonance‘. The EP will be released sometime in April. The band was formed in August 2011 and this is their first ever release. …

WATCH: Agnee – Hello Andheron
March 27, 2012 – 2:13 PM | No Comment
WATCH: Agnee – Hello Andheron

Et tu Brutus? :/

Headbanger’s Kitchen releases new episode featuring horror metal band Albatross
March 26, 2012 – 7:16 PM | No Comment
Headbanger’s Kitchen releases new episode featuring horror metal band Albatross

Heavy metal cooking show Headbanger’s Kitchen hosted by Demonic Resurrection frontman Demonstealer releases a new episode featuring horror metal band Albatross.The show, features the creation of a dish called Uncle Sunny’s Mac & Cheese based on the latest single released by …

WATCH: Postmark – Metal Age
March 24, 2012 – 11:04 PM | 2 Comments
WATCH: Postmark – Metal Age

Here’s an awesome find, thanks to Sandrembee for discovering this. PostMark one of the pioneering classic/thrash metal bands of India released their debut album ‘Stamp on You’ back in 1988, and subsequently released video for …

Rolling Stone Metal Awards 2012 – Call for Entries
March 20, 2012 – 4:53 PM | 19 Comments
Rolling Stone Metal Awards 2012 – Call for Entries

Never understood the point of having a metal award with no or very little monetary benefit for  competing bands, but anyways, in a country where publicity hungry metal bands rarely get any/minimum exposure on mainstream …

Quote of the Day
March 19, 2012 – 1:19 PM | 29 Comments
Quote of the Day

Arch Enemy is NOT playing Summer Blaze Metal Fest, India! The promoter (Karan Dubay from Dreamrigs ) never sent the 5.000 Euros agreed for the travel costs, instead we got a fake bank letter, stating …

Watch: Neel Adhikari – Lights and Tunnels
March 18, 2012 – 5:54 AM | No Comment
Watch: Neel Adhikari – Lights and Tunnels

So I smoked ‘Marley Leaves’ and somehow ended up in some remote village in Bihar, picked up a fight with the locals over a girl and was beaten badly land left to die, .. … ah …