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The Grammy Awards and heavy metal

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The 51st Grammy Awards were held on Sunday, February 8th, at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles. Among the awards that really concern us, Metallica was honoured with a Grammy for ‘Best Metal Performance’ for the track ‘My Apocalypse’ from their latest release, ‘Death Magnetic’. But really, who gives a[…]

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Trivium announces new drummer

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Florida based metal band Trivium have just announced Nick Augusto as their new permanent drummer. Augusto was introduced to Trivium fans when he filled in in the band’s “Into the Mouth of Hell We Tour” trek. He is now stepping in to permanently replace the departing Travis Smith.

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No false hopes here!

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Theorized is no new name to metalheads from namma Bengaluru. But to headbangers elsewhere in the country, here’s introducing to you one of this city’s more popular thrash metal bands- Theorized. They have been around in the performing circuit for quite a while, and have just brought out their EP,[…]

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‘A Fair Judgement’- The Saarang Experience

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This 2009, IIT’s ‘Saarang’ proved itself to be much more than a mere college fest. Thanks to Opeth, a lot of us made the campus our temporary home for that weekend in January. And what a weekend it was! The semi-pro bands competed in ‘Decibels’, which was held on the[…]

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The Indian metalhead’s crib-ology

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You surely must have heard of ‘Campus Rock Idols,’ the band competition at the college level. It’s blessed with the biggest of sponsors and not particularly the best of bands. Well, I attended one of the city finals of CRI and I am pissed off.

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Opeth Tickets Out

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Just about a week before the actual concert, Opeth tickets are going on sale. Priced at Rs.500 and Rs.1000, they will be available online here. Joining the Swedish troupe on stage will be Demonic Resurrection from Mumbai and Motherjane from Banglalore/Kerala (this will be before the concert, of course).

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New outfit Eccentric Pendulum to release debut EP

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Eccentric Pendulum, the newest kids in the headbangers’ block came together in late 2008. These kids (well…not really)…(actually, they aren’t ‘new’ either) got together in a sort of experimental madness to conjure up some avant-garde progressive metal. Drummer Vibhas who also plays drums for Spitfire, Ashish who plays guitars for[…]

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