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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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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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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The band were hand-picked for the show, as LAMB OF GOD’s …
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“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 …
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‘‘Achtung metalheads! We have been confirmed to play at In Flammen Open Air in Torgau, Germany for the …
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UPDATE: Book tickets here. or Here .
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After battling it …
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“Here is the news you’ve all …
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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 …
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Riff 52 will feature bands …
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