Israeli progressive metal giants Orphaned Land will be playing 2 dates in India in February:
– 5th February at the Alcheringa Festival at IIT Guwahati, Assam
– 7th February at the QBA Club in New Delhi
This is yet another example of metal bands returning to play in India, therefore placing our country quite prominently on the world metal map as a tour venue. Make sure you’re there for the never-ending ways of these warriors.
Bangalore’s multi-talented progressive metal act Eccentric Pendulum have been confirmed as part of the line-up for the SWR MetalFest in the city of Barroselas, Portugal. The festival runs from 26th to 30th April. The show is headlined by Norwegian black metal heavyweights Immortal and other international giants like Hirax, Candlemass, Gorod and Cerebral Bore. Here’s hoping for a performance that will turn more European heads towards the Indian scene. May their existence become less and less anonymous. The confirmation can be viewed on the festival’s website here.
Mumbai-based heavy metal/horror metal band Albatross released their latest single ‘Uncle Sunny at the Tavern’ on Soundcloud here. The song features the guest voice of one of the new millennium’s finest heavy metal singers, Niklas Stålvind from the Swedish band Wolf. The song will be featured on their upcoming EP ‘The Kissing Flies’, which will also be released as part of a split-album with American heavy metal band Vestal Claret.
We’ve heard music from the ‘Trendslaughter Sessions’ and also a couple of other live recordings, but Bevar Sea fans don’t have to wait too long for the studio album. The heavy hitting stoner-doom band from Bangalore have just revealed their self-titled debut details.
Bevar Sea (approx 40 min)
Tracklist:
1. Universal Sleeper
2. Abishtu
3. The Smiler
4. Mono Gnome
Guitar player and main songwriter, Srikanth Panaman, says: “We’ve had a great time performing these songs since we made our stage debut. After a year of playing them out and getting better, we thought it was the right time to hit the studio and put out our first album. On the one hand, it’s been a challenge to capture the live vibe on the recordings, and on the other, being in the studio and listening to the songs over and over has allowed us to fine-tune the arrangements. One of our favourite engineers/producers is going to be mixing this, so this is going to be a mindblowing experience for us.”
The self-titled album has been penned for an early-summer 2012 release via the recently formed Iron Fist Records in India. CDs and digital downloads will be the first available media, with more formats on the cards later. The CD will come in a 6 panel digipack, including a 12 page booklet, with extensive illustrations across the layout. According to Rahul Chacko, lead guitarist and in-house band artist: “The art for Bevar Sea has always been about trying to portray the spirit of the music, while using reference points from the lyrics, and incorporating a healthy dose of influence from some of our favourite comic artists. The album art is probably our most ambitious collection yet, and so far it’s shaping up pretty good!”
The band will wrap up recording, and support label-mates, scene veterans, and fellow old schoolers Kryptos for their third album’s launch party on February 18th at Kyra Theatre in Bangalore. This occasion will also see the launch of Bevar Sea’s new website, and the debut of their new song, “Where There’s Smoke (There’s A Pyre)”.
Bevar Sea is Ganesh Krishnaswamy on vocals, Srikanth Panaman and Rahul Chacko on guitars, Avinash Menon on bass, and Deepak Raghu on drums.
Watch this space for updates on the album, the single, merchandise, and tour dates.
You can also check out the band at the following links:
http://ironfirstrecords.in
http://facebook.com/bevarsea
http://youtube.com/bevarsea
http://bevarsea.bandcamp.com
bevarsea@gmail.com
Hardcore Heavyweights Scribe are currently in the studio to record the follow up to their 2010 critically acclaimed album – ‘Mark of Teja’.
The band is currently camped at the home studio of producer Kuber Sharma whose previous releases have been with the likes of Exhumation (Consider This) and Pangea (Snails are When I was Young).
As you might remember, their previous effort, ‘Mark of Teja’, sent quite a shockwave around the country and even beyond. Their fresh, new sound not only got them a spot at the prestigious Inferno Metal Festival in Oslo, Norway, but also helped them win the Best Metal Album, Best Band, Best Song, Best Bassist, as well as Best Vocalist at the first ever Rolling Stone Metal Awards and the JD Rock Awards. Scribe was also nominated at the MTV (EMA) Europe Music Awards 2011 at Belfast in the “Worldwide” category recently.
“We hope this album can take us out into space. We’d love to see space”, hopes guitarist Akshay Rajpurohit.
In keeping with their crazy side, the upcoming release is titled ‘Hail Mogambo’. The CD will contain a dozen songs and promises to continue the saga that ‘Mark of Teja’ started. The band is looking forward to releasing the album in the latter half of 2012.
They will also be performing at IIT Madras’ Saarang 2012 on the 21st of January 2012, and will open for Vildhjarta.
Scribe fans… Headbangers India recommends you watch this space. We’ve got something in store for you!
Despite controversies and being a major subject of debate, the Jack Daniel’s Annual Rock Awards seems to be going strong, with its list of 2011 nominees being announced.
Honestly, there seems to be no sense in pitching a band like Pentagram against a band like Eccentric Pendulum, so the whole reason it’s considered “controversial” seems justified, and it is most likely that the debate will continue. Anyway, here’s the list:
Jack Daniel’s Annual Rock Awards 2011 Nominees:
Best Band
1. Indian Ocean
2. Menwhopause
3. Pentagram
4. Peter Cat Recording Co
5. Undying Inc
Best Album
1. Dischordian – The Feni Farm Riot
2. Indian Ocean – 16/330 Khajoor Road
3. Menwhopause – Easy
4. Pentagram – Bloodywood
5. Undying Inc – Aggressive World Dynasty
Best Song
1. Eccentric Pendulum – Mathematicians Of Ambient Waters
2. Indian Ocean – Darte Ho
3. Menwhopause – Easy
4. Pentagram – Tomorrow’s Decided
5. Peter Cat Recording Co – Clown on the 22nd Floor
6. Sky Rabbit – I Become I
7. The Circus – F.O.P.S
8. Undying Inc – Xenophobe
Best Vocalist [Male]
1. Kishore Krishna – Adam & The Fish Eyed Poets
2. Garreth D’Mello – Dischordian
3. Siddharth Basrur – Goddess Gagged
4. Vishal Dadlani – Pentagram
5. Raxit Tewari – Sky Rabbit
6. Shashank Bhatnagar – Undying Inc
Best Vocalist [Female]
1. Subhadra Kamath – Fire Exit
2. Pragnya Wakhlu
3. Suchitra Pillai
4. Samara C – The Ska Vengers
Best Guitarist
1. Arjun Mulky & Faheemul Hasan – Eccentric Pendulum
2. Prashant Shah – Exhumation
3. Anup Kutty – Menwhopause
4. Randolph Correia – Pentagram
5. Biswarup Gupta – Undying Inc
Best Bassist
1. Ruell Barretto – Bombay Bassment
2. Randeep Singh – Menwhopause
3. Makarand Mane – Pentagram
4. Siddharth Shah – Sky Rabbit
5. Abhinav Chaudhary – The Circus
Best Drummer
1. Vibhas Venkatram – Eccentric Pendulum
2. Hemendra Nath- Menwhopause
3. Shiraz Bhattacharya – Pentagram
4. Harsh Karangale – Sky Rabbit
5. Yuvraj Sen Gupta – Undying Inc
Best Keyboardist
1. Jason Zachariah – Allegro Fudge
2. Akshat Taneja – Arcane Deception
3. Vikram Ashok – Franks Got the Funk
4. Jonathan Wesley – Slain
5. Stefan Kaye – The Ska Vengers
What do you think of this list? Give us your comments in the section below.
Basick Records has now issued the following statement about inking a deal with the band:
“Starting out as a simple bedroom studio project, guitarist Keshav Dhar has seen SKYHARBOR quickly evolve into one of India’s hottest metal prospects, with huge admiration coming in from some of the biggest names in metal worldwide.
“An astonishing amount of buzz also surrounded the bands first ever performance at the Bacardi NH7 Festival in Pune, India earlier this month, where they played to over 1,000 people and were one of the weekend’s highlights.
“The long awaited debut album from SKYHARBOR promises to be a landmark release for the Indian independent music scene, in no small part thanks to the incredible number of international guest appearances it will see, including the likes of Marty Friedman (ex Megadeth), Daniel Tompkins (ex TesseracT), Vishal J. Singh (Amogh Symphony) and Sunneith Revankar (Bhayanak Maut).
“SKYHARBOR will release the debut album ‘Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos’ worldwide via BASICK in early 2012.”
Keep checking for more details.
Courtesy http://www.smnnews.com/2011/11/25/skyharbor-inks-deal-with-basick-records/
Vedic Metal giants Rudra are gonna headline this year’s Strawberry Fields, the annual music festival of National Law School in Bangalore. The Singaporean spearheads will be supported by Bangalore’s very own stoner/doom outfit Bevar Sea. The gig is set to happen on the 27th of November at the NLS campus. And keeping the tradition, Strawberry Fields continue to remain a free show, which indeed a treat, especially for fans of Rudra who were quite disappointed after their India tour got canceled.