Infinite Redemption- Face of Disaster EP

Thinking. An activity everyone does by default but something metal bands of today give little time to. A well thought-out idea results in a well-executed style of music. It is definitely a lot easier said than done and cracking it in your first attempt is a tough ask but Mumbai’s Infinite Redemption seem to have [...]

Dark Helm – Persepolis

I was reading about Dark Helm on their facebook page – ‘The sound of Dark Helm is the musicalisation of the journey of an ancient warrior through the sands of Persia and his quest to defend his throne, by bending time and cheating death.’, which in other words meant that they’d sing about Prince of [...]

Goddess Gagged – Resurfaces(2011)

Goddess Gagged are a young band(age-wise), and yet they’ve been around for quite some time now, making their presence felt last year as Mood Indigo finalists, where I saw them live for the first time, and was duly impressed by their live performance. So when I heard that they were about to release an album, [...]

Eccentric Pendulum – Winding The Optics

Eccentric Pendulum are a band that have been in the news of late. Especially after their recent trip to Wacken in Germany. Here is a band that have a played a lot of shows and made themselves very well known both inside and outside of India. They released their debut EP The Sculptor of Negative [...]

Dark Carnage – Abominate. Annihilate. (EP)

The North East has a huge metal scene. Everyone knows that, and everyone is as aware of the glaring discrepancy in the amount of quality output produced in comparision to the number of metal fans and musicians out there. Lately there have been improvements though, and Dark Carnage’s EP “Abominate. Annihilate.” is definitely a step [...]

Noiseware – Wake Up And Soar(EP)

8 string guitars. What started out as one band’s quest for uber-brutal low end odd time riff monstrosities has quickly caught on with both progressive metal guitarists(read Ihsahn, Jeff Loomis, Tosin Abasi) and a horde of copycat bands. And while the former have actually explored the scope of the instrument, the latter have merely churned [...]

Dying Embrace – Grotesque

If there were epic riffs written back in the day Indian metal was thought to be but a fetus, it had to be Jimmy Palkhivala. If there had to be unmatched growls of various sorts, a relentless savage butchery in the form of doom, it had to be Vikram Bhat and Jimmy Palkhivala. It had [...]

VerseS – Threshold

VerseS is a 6-piece outfit from Bangalore, playing a brand of metal that’s an amalgam of melodic death, gothic and hints of symphonic black. I’d seen them live at Mood Indigo 2010, where the tight live performance had left a decent impression, in spite of the sound being a bit fucked up. So I was [...]

Dormant Inferno – In Sanity

Dormant Inferno is a Death / Doom Metal band from Mumbai, a place known for it’s death and thrash and metalcore bands of increasing popularities, stands out a band that plays good old captivating doom metal. Dormant Inferno hopes at exposing the Metalheads in Mumbai to Doom Metal, a beautiful yet ignored genre of Metal. [...]

Exhumation – Consider This (2011)

Exhumation is and always will be among India’s biggest death metal represents. Having been around since 2002, the quartet has battled through extended stretches of inactivity to bring out their first full length album in almost 10 years and first release since ‘For Personal Consumption Only’ in 2006. The first track on ‘Consider This’ is [...]

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