Rock Street Journal and VH1 India announced the inaugural Indian edition of the well-known Inferno Metal Festival that takes place every year in Norway. The announcement, which was made on January 20th, named New Delhi and Bangalore as the 2 cities to play host to the festival. Headlining this 2-day[…]
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Avaejee, well-known in the Asia Pacific region as the vocalist/bass player for Thai black metal veteran band Surrender of Divinity and guitar player of Zygoatsis, was found stabbed to death at his home in Bangkok, Thailand on January 10th 2014. He was 36 years old. Surrender Of Divinity and Zygoatsis released statements via[…]
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For I Am King, a female fronted metal band from Amsterdam, has released a single, ‘The Beast Within’ from their debut EP “Revengeance”, which is set to release early this year. For I Am King combines modern day metal riffage with catchy melodies and ground shaking rhythms. Their lyrics are[…]
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After 6 years and 2 albums (including the as yet unreleased 4th full-length), lead guitarist of Mumbai metal veterans Demonic Resurrection, Daniel Kenneth Rego has decided to quit the band. The reasons cited were changing musical interests and professional priorities, as detailed in this personal statement: To everyone who’s listened[…]
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Undying Inc. have just released a music video for their latest single “Ironclad”. You can watch it here: The Delhi metal act had released the single on their Soundcloud page in the latter half of 2013, and even went on tour to support this new single- something no other band[…]
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For the first time in India, a music school is actually all set to launch a course specifically for heavy metal guitar! Nathaniel School of music, based in Bangalore, will be kickstarting a course catering to the ever growing number of metal guitarists in the country. This is what they[…]
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Well known metal act hailing from Kerala (now settled in Bangalore), launched their highly anticipated debut album titled ‘How Are You? We Are Fine Thank You’ at the New Year metal gig that happened at Counter Culture, Bangalore. After the release of their single “Nagavalli” last month on their official[…]
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My top 10 metal singles released in 2013 While the rest of the metal world goes into virtual war arguing about the best albums released over the course of the year, I decided to get a little more specific. I’ve listed down ten songs that I think were among[…]
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Delhi’s melodic death metal long-timers Acrid Semblance have been in and out of the news in the recent past. They have surfaced with a new single released on Christmas Eve. The song in question is called ‘Through the Glass Door’. The song is intended to be part of their long-awaited[…]
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You can watch the video here: Their last official music video for “Your Majesty” just stumbled into 35,000 views on YouTube. So they decided to do something special for Christmas by releasing this video. You might think- “Heavy metal band and singing gloria?” Well, whatever said and done, it’s[…]
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