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A new GODLESS endeavour

Twin-city-based bone crushers Godless have just released their 1st music video, for the song ‘Oneiros’. The song was part of their hugely successful debut EP Centuries of Decadence, which was recorded with new vocalist Kaushal LS. The band features members from both Hyderabad and Bengaluru. The EP is available for streaming online through all major streaming services, as well as up for sale on their website.

Catch the band live in August when they embark on their massive 6-city India tour supporting Australian death metal technicians PSYCROPTIC and joined by New Delhi-based prog death metal band FRAGARAK.

 

 

DESTRUCTION and JEFF LOOMIS to bring the metal rain to India in December

How did you feel when the river dragon known as NEVERMORE, almost came to India but split up before they could? How will you feel when you learn that their legendary shred master JEFF LOOMIS is doing a 4-city India tour in December? Well, believe it! From 9th to 12th December, the ARCH ENEMY/CONQUERING DYSTOPIA virtuoso will play guitar clinics at shows in Guwahati, Bangalore, New Delhi and one more city that is yet to be announced. Make sure you save the date depending on your city.

Also, save the date between 9th and 11th December for the return of teutonic thrash titans DESTRUCTION! They return to India on their tour supporting their new album ‘Under Attack’ and they will be playing 3 cities that are yet to be announced. The butcher has struck back!

Together, these 2 artistes shall be bringing the rain of metal in winter to India! Don’t miss either! More details to be announced soon.

KRYPTOS release brand new music video and reveal new album details

Literally, a metal fist in the air as the album cover. That’s how little of a doubt Bangalore‘s KRYPTOS want to leave regarding what their 4th full-length album Burn up the Night is going to be all about. This announcement was made today by their German label AFM Records who have finalized the release date to be September 23rd. The artwork is very clearly a throwback to the 80s style of traditionally painted album covers representing metal’s ‘glory’ in more literal ways. The artist Mattias Frisk is best known for his artwork for the occult rock band Ghost.

kryptos burn up the night album cover

The album is up for ‘pre’-grabs from both iTunes and the AFM Records website. The band has also decided to make this announcement sweeter by debuting the music video for the first single from the album, titled ‘Full Throttle’:

Kryptos are currently touring Europe and the tourdates are as follows:

2016-07-15 DE Neukirchen Vluyn, Dong Open Air
2016-07-16 DE Hamburg, Apes Enraged Festival
2016-07-28 DE Brandenhörner Kirchen, Headbanger’s Open Air
2016-07-31 DE Hamburg, Wacken Open Air Warm Up Party
2016-08-03 DE Aschaffenburg, Colos-Saal
2016-08-04 DE München, Free and Easy Festival
2016-08-05 DE Marburg, Marburg Kulturshock
2016-08-07 DE Köln, RheinRiot Festival
2016-08-08 CH Pratteln, Z7
2016-08-10 DE Cham, LA
2016-08-13 DE Leidersbach, Sam’s Hard ‘n Heavy Open Air

SKULL FIST confirm their slot at Bangalore Open Air 2016

Canadian heavy metal puritans SKULL FIST have confirmed an appearance at this year’s edition of India’ biggest metal festival, Bangalore Open Air, on the 9th of June. The band will kick off their Asia tour  with this festival and are now the 2nd confirmed headliners at the festival, after SOILWORK. This will be the band’s first ever show in India.

 

ASIAN INVASION TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT

The Fist has seen a many chapters come and go in quick succession over these cold winter months. The times they were a changing and the signs they were a stranging but out of the ice covered forest the Fist shall rise, the dream shall be found. DFA

JULY 9 – Bangalore Open Air – Inda
July 12 – Aliwal Arts Centre – Singapore
July 13 – The Rock Pub – Bangkok
July 15 – Wake up Festival – Taiwan
July 17 – Koenj High – Tokyo
July 18 – Socore Factory Minami Horie – Osaka

Sponsored by Planet Earth, The moon, The stars and the great Asian bear spirit

skull fist asia tour 2016 poster

 

Metal Assault organizer releases statement about the show being stopped midway

Salman U. Syed, known as the man behind Bangalore Open Air, has released a statement on Facebook about what exactly went down on Sunday, the 6th of March, at Pebble in Bangalore, after his show ‘Metal Assault’ was stopped midway and then called off.

Here is what he said about the entire situation:

Metal Show Stopped Midway – A lawyer’s business deal supposedly falls through because of LOUD MUSIC!
SALMAN U. SYED· 
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016
The 6th of March promised to be an eventful day, with some of the best metal bands in the country scheduled to perform at Metal Assault, which was to take place at a local venue called Pebbles. The show started on time at 3 p.m with Kerala based band Chaos playing a great set followed by their compatriots in The Down Troddence upping the ante soon after. However, trouble soon reared its head before Inner Sanctum had a chance to take the stage. A cop showed up at the venue demanding that the show be stopped at once due a complaint lodged by a lawyer who resided in the same neighborhood. Apparently, the lawyer, who was entertaining the Chief Justice as his guest, requested the police to shut down the event immediately, as he could not conduct his business with the Chief Justice due to the ‘loud noise’. To top it off, he threatened to use his influence with higher authorities if his request was not complied with.
I was then taken to the police station along with the manager of Pebbles, Mr Mathew, where we met the lawyer. We apologized and assured that the volume would be reduced, and subsequently requested him let the show go on since we had bands and fans who travelled from all over the country for the gig. The Inspector of the High Grounds Police Station filed a petty case against me, because according to him I was creating a ‘public nuisance’ and also warned me against turning the music back on. If I did not comply, he told me that I would be arrested unconditionally. While I was willing to risk arrest for the sake of the event, the management of Pebbles refused to allow me to continue citing their desire to ‘safe guard’ their venue.
This has raised many questions
1) Prior to conducting the event, I had consulted with Mr. Harris (the Pebbles owner) stating that the event would go on throughout the day, since the PA and sound system would have to be set up and tested during the morning before the show began. He was completely aware of this and did not have any issue whatsoever. If I had known ‘loud music’ would have been a problem for a place that usually plays much louder music on a regular basis, I would not have held the event at the venue.
2) Pebbles is a venue that is known to conduct events that range from DJ nights to EDM shows every weekend. Bizarrely, after the entire mess, they told me that since I didn’t use their own PA system, the volume of the event got out hand. The PA at Pebbles is insufficient to run a live rock or metal event and there have been events before where organisers have brought in their own PA systems, so why was it an issue now?
3) Pebbles is surrounded by marriage halls that frequently play music at ear shattering levels many times during the year. Why then was this event singled out for being ‘too loud’?
4) Pebbles has a license to hold live music events on their premises. This was not the first time a live event has taken place there, so, once again, why was my event singled out?
I don’t really want to get sucked into a blame game here, but if Mr.Harris from Pebbles really cared about organisers running events at his venue, he would have offered to help with the situation at hand. While he was in Goa, the Pebbles manager Mr. Mathew and I were running from pillar to post trying to get the gig up and running. Mr. Harris, however, could not be reached, since he never bothered answering his phone, despite numerous calls from our end.
Mr. Harris, I would like to openly state that due to your negligence towards your own venue, I was shamed into apologizing and pleading before the police for no fault of my own. I have also suffered tremendous monetary loss due to the shutting down of the event.
To everyone who attended, I am truly grateful and I cannot thank you enough for your patience and support. Having said that, I would like to further explain the situation we are facing. As most of you know, we run events on the revenue model of ticket sales. All money that comes from these ticket sales goes towards hiring the venue, hiring sound and lights, booking flights and hotels for the artists and much more. Due to this we are unfortunately unable to provide refunds at this point. We are, however, aware that 170 people purchased their tickets through Book My Show, while a further 50 purchased tickets at the venue.
To make up for what has happened, we have a similar event planned, wherein everyone who has purchased a ticket for Metal Assault will be given free entry. To the 50 people who purchased their tickets at the venue, we kindly request you to send in your names at sal.echoes@gmail.com so that we can keep a record for the next event.
I would like to once again offer my sincere apologies to everyone who attended the show, especially to all the amazing people who travelled long distances to attend the gig. I thank you immensely for your support and patience through all of this, and I hope this will not deter you from attending more metal events in the future. I would also like thank the wonderful crew who area always the backbone of the festival, Special Thanks to Sufiyan Ken No, Shiva, MadDas, Saurabh, Chintan Chinnappa Nikhil V. Pai Govind Joshi! You guys are always awesome!
Salman U. Syed
(Promoter – Bangalore Open Air)

SOILWORK and PROVIDENCE announced for Bangalore Open Air 2016

Swedish melodic death metal veterans Soilwork and Indian ‘gamer’ metallers Providence are the first acts that have been announced for this year’s edition of Bangalore Open Air, India’s largest open air metal festival. Soilwork have earned a mammoth reputation for themselves as consistent torchbearers of the Swedish melodic death metal movement while Providence have earned a reputation for their refreshingly ‘nerdy’ approach to playing and writing metal music. This year will mark 5 years of the festival so be assured that this is just the beginning. Just be sure to mark July 9th down on your calenders.

 

soilwork boa 2016 announcement

INNER SANCTUM announce all-star guest appearances on ‘Legions Awake’

Bangalore’s Inner Sanctum are really compensating well for the past few years of musical silence. After releasing what was probably the best lyrics video ever made for an Indian metal band and playing at INFERNO Festival in Norway, the band have announced the following names of guest guitar players on their upcoming album Legions Awake:

inner sanctum legions awake guest guitarists

No doubt the band is going all out in creating quite a rumble before what is building up to be a very promising album. This list of star performers is definitely doing its part in upping the ante. Look out for it in late April!

DEMILICH to play only Asian show at Trend Slaughter Fest 2015

demilich ts fest 2015

Finnish death metal band Demilich have been announced as the headlining act at this year’s fifth and final edition of Trend Slaughter Fest in Bangalore. This will be the band’s only show in Asia. More details are yet to be announced on the rest of the line-up and the date, so STAY TUNED.

KRYPTOS to tour Germany with DEATH ANGEL

Kryptos Death Angel tour 2015

Bangalore’s old-school metal torchbearers Kryptos are continuing their sorties of Europe. This time around it may just be their biggest announcement yet. They have now confirmed a tour of Germany with thrash metal superstars Death Angel, from the United States. This tour comes on the back of a highly successful tour with Italian melodic black metal band Graveworm last year and another Europe tour prior to that which included performances at Wacken Open Air and In Flammer Open Air metal festivals. The tour begins on 17th July in Weisbaden and ends on the 11th of August at Essen. From the Headbangers India family, we wish the band all the best as always and congratulate them on returning to Europe again and again, stronger every time.

ARCHANGEL releases new album ‘Blur’

A good, complete ambient progressive metal song is tough to pull off, let alone an album. Having said that, Archangel, a Bangalore based solo project, has released its fourth album (yes, fourth!) titled ‘Blur’ in under 3 years. The brainchild of Dr. Srikumar R, the album is quite well written and is even based on a story that Dr. Srikumar has written himself. Purely instrumental, ‘Blur’  has some sweet riffs that are comparable to Cloudkicker and sound original.

The new album is out right now,  either to stream or to be purchased at whatever price you name on Bandcamp.

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