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Shashank Bhatnagar returns to Undying Inc.

After months of searching for a new vocalist, Undying Inc’s remaining members decided to bury their differences with former vocalist Shashank Bhatnagar. The Delhi band is now back to being a quartet and are writing new material for their forthcoming EP. The EP will be recorded at Keshav Dhar (Skyharbor)’s studio. About the reunion with Shashank, bass player Reuben Bhattacharya said: “We’re all a bunch of friends who just want to play metal. It’s not rocket science [to regroup]. There were good guys from across India [who auditioned to be vocalists], but in the end, there was the chemistry we had with Shashank.”

 

Gutslit part ways with long time guitarist

Bombay based Slam Grinders have parted ways with founder – guitarist Dynell Bangera. Said the band in their official statement: “Our Guitarist and brother, Dynell has decided to leave the band.
His work schedule and personal commitments are making it difficult for him to continue with Gutslit.
We wish him luck and the search for a guitarist who can fill his place has begun.

Anybody who thinks he/she can kill it as good as the gutgrinder himself, can contact anyone of us in the band and come down for a jam.”

Gutslit, who have gone through numerous changes for drummer and vocalist over the years have always found better replacements, and this leaves bassist Gurdip Singh as the only member from the first line up. We wish this brilliant band all the best in finding a replacement and hope to see them bounce back with more shows and releases.

Dark Tranquility unveil album art and tracklist for upcoming album

One of the guardians of the Gothenburg sound, Dark Tranquillity, released their first album 20 years ago and are still going strong. The fans will be happy to hear that they are ready to release their 10th album. Today the band has revealed the tracklist and cover artwork for the new album that, according to them, perfectly catches the spirit of the new masterpiece. Construct features artwork by the band’s own guitarist Niklas Sundin as usual. Prepare for the new opus by watching the trailer below which contains a snippet of a new track.

In regards to Construct, Dark Tranquillity comments: “The selected few people that so far have been granted the privilege of hearing the full album are uniformingly convinced that Construct is the strongest and most exciting D.T. album in a long time, and who are we to disagree? While still bearing the unmistakable mark of the dark tranquillity, the record is probably our most different and diverse offering since 1999’s Projector. For now, we’re pleased to share the tracklist, trailer and sleeve design with you, but the first musical preview will appear in the near future.”

Construct tracklist:

01. For Broken Words
02. The Science Of Noise
03. Uniformity
04. The Silence In Between
05. Apathetic
06. What Only You Know
07. Endtime Hearts
08. State Of Trust
09. Weight Of The End
10. None Becoming

‘Metal to our (y)ears’: A paper on Indian metal and its fans

Headbangers India would like to announce its support to Vishal Kapatkar, a Masters Student whose dissertation topic is Heavy Metal in India, affects of Public Relations (if any), Media & New Media, ”metal to our (y)ears…”. He is aiming at capturing the experiences and thoughts of Indian metal fans, and illustrating them in his dissertation. Please help him out by taking about 2 minutes to answer this survey created by him.

There is also another set of 4 questions that you could answer to better help his research.

Purgation signed by Slaughterhouse Records USA

Old-school death metal band Purgation, hailing from Kolkata, have been signed to Slaughterhouse Records, an underground record company based in the United States. The record company released an official video heralding that announcement with the song ‘System Impaled’ by the band:

 

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The band is also getting set to finish recording their cover of ‘Terminal Show’ by Motorhead, to be released by Iron Fist Records as part of the upcoming tribute album to Motorhead.

Albatross confirmed for Burning Sea Festival, Croatia

As if time itself wants to play blinking games with our website, here is another announcement of an Indian metal band at a European festival this year. Heavy/horror metal band from Mumbai, Albatross, have now been confirmed as the 2nd Indian band at Croatia’s Burning Sea Festival in Zadar. This announcement of them joining Inner Sanctum there comes less than 24 hours after the former were confirmed for a slot at Poland’s Metalfest Open Air. Here’s wishing Dr. Hex and the rest of the friendly-neighbourhood cannibals a great session of unleashing the flies on Croatia!

 

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Inner Sanctum confirmed for Metalfest Open Air, Poland

After being confirmed for Burning Sea Open Air in Croatia, Bangalore’s Inner Sanctum have been announced as part of the line-up for Metalfest Poland 2013. This marks their 2nd European appearance of this year and the 4th Indian metal performance in Europe for 2013 so far (the others being Kryptos at WOA Germany and Zygnema at Inferno Open Air Norway). They also plan on announcing more European dates soon so keep watching this space for more updates!

New music video from Devoid

Death/thrash metal Mumbaikars Devoid have unleashed their new music video for their song ‘Brahma Weapon’ from the new EP ‘The Invasion’. Watch it right here on Headbangers India:

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