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Unseen Underground- Saturday Night Live IV

Unseen Underground continues its tradition of keeping the music alive in Chennai and presents ‘Saturday Night Live IV’ this 16th of July. Details below…
Unseen Underground presents Saturday Night Live-IV- The best way to unwind with live rock music. Enjoy an evening of live bands playing different kinds of music from Acoustic Funk blues, Classic Rock to Extreme Metal.

Featuring bands:

Jack, Johnnie and the Old Monk ( Folk/Blues Rock band-Chennai )
White Lady ( Classic Rock band-Chennai )
Djinns Lament (Progressive Death Metal band- Chennai)
Venue:  Geoffrey’s Pub, Radha Regent Hotel,
Date: 16th July 2011 ( Saturday)
Time: 7.30pm till 11pm
For more details log on to the official Unseen Underground website.
RSVP to the event on Facebook.

E-mail: info@unseenunderground.com or send an sms to +91 7299307251

For directions to the venue, call 044-66778899

Gig Alert: Unseen Underground J.A.M

The first show of  Unseen Underground J.A.M (Just About Music),  a festival of rock, blues, jazz & metal music is scheduled to be held on the 4th of June 2011. This is an initiative by Unseen Underground to find new talent from different sub-genres of rock and provide them a stage to showcase this alongside some already established musicians.

Here’s a list of bands performing:

Jack, Johnnie and the Old Monk ( Folk/Blues Rock band-Chennai )
White Lady ( Hard Rock band-Chennai )
Dark Desolation (Black Metal band-Bangalore )
Crypted (Technical/Progressive Death Metal band- Chennai)
Trojan Horse (Technical Death Metal band- Chennai)
Djinns Lament (Progressive Metal band- Chennai)
Anthramorphia (Progressive Death /Metalcore band-Chennai )
Like Weekend (Hard Rock band-Chennai )

Venue: Geoffrey’s Pub, Radha Regent Hotel, Chennai
Date: 04th June 2011 (Saturday)
Time: 5.30pm to 11:00pm
For more details visit: http://unseenunderground.com/j-a-m-1/
E-mail: info@unseenunderground.com
SMS +91-7299307251
For help with direction to the venue call 044-66778899
RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123222351091020

J.A.M will be held as a monthly event or bi monthly event apart from the other regular Unseen Underground gigs depending on the success of this first show. Unseen Underground is supported by Headbangers India.

Unseen Underground listening party for new Thurisaz album

Belgium based Atmospheric Doom/ Death / Black metal band Thurisaz is releasing their 3rd album “The Cimmerian Years” worldwide on 21st May 2011 through Sleaszy Rider Records from Greece. The band’s official Publicity Partner from Asia Pacific- Unseen Underground is organizing a listening party on the 21st May. During the event, audio tracks from Thurisaz’s first and second albums and the entire new album would be played along with some of their videos. The event will also feature Escher’sKnot‘s latest EP “Tessellations”.

Venue: Geoffrey’s Pub, Hotel Radha Regent
Date: 21st May 2011 (Saturday)
Time: 8pm onwards
Free entry
Standard club rules are applicable
RSVP here.

For more details of the event visit here.

Thurisaz already has two successful albums which sold more than 6500copies each throughout Europe and America. The first album “Scent of a Dream” and the second album “Circadian Rhythm” are more of Atmospheric Black and Death but the sound of the new album is slightly different from the previous two albums, featuring more doom metal elements.

Thurisaz has been always appreciated by people around the globe because oftheir highly sensible and philosophical lyrics and the atmospheric melodieswhich are used brilliantly in the songs. Music lovers, irrespective of anygenres love this band, they define a unique sound from rest of the otherbands in the world.

For more details about the band visit the Unseen Underground website.

Pain of Salvation Pre-show night

To gear up and get in the mood for the big night, i.e. Pain of Salvation at IIT Madras’ ‘Saarang’, Unseen Underground will host a Pre-Show night on the 28th of January, 2011.
Date: 28th January 2011 (Friday)
Time: 8 pm to 11 pm (After Decibel Finals)
Venue: Geoffrey’s Pub, Radha Regent Hotel, Arumbakkam, Chennai
Entry: Rs 300/- (100% reedemable cover charge)
Passes avilable only in the Derby outlets.
Bands performing:
Yonsample (Metal Band- Kolkata)
Wolf’s Lair (Heavy Metal Band- Chennai)
Infidels Of Sanity (Hypnotic Progressive Rock Band- Pune)
Pain Of Salvation will select the best performance of the evening and the best performing band will get free passes for the Saarang main rock show and also gift voucher from Derby clothing.
For more information on the Meet & Greet session with the band, watch this space. For other details, log on to www.unseenunderground.com.

Unseen Underground Ragnarok ‘10- Show review

When the rest of the country brought in the New Year with laptop-produced beats and mindless disco beats, Unseen Underground gave metalheads a chance to celebrate the way they like it best. On New Year’s Eve on the 31st of December, 2010 at Geoffrey’s Pub, Chennai, people saw a host of great bands from across the country come together to bring in 2011 with music… real music.

Unseen Underground in association with HMI Guitars, Roland, Chennai Live & Explocity has created history in Chennai by organizing a live rock show through the night- Unseen Underground Ragnarok ‘10, The show featured 7 bands from across the country. And no surprises, the crowd was something to be proud of! With six hours of unadulterated rock and metal, why wouldn’t the attendence be great!

Chennai’s home band Crypted went on first. They are a progressive death metal band and were a great start to the show. It was hardly a couple of minutes into the gig, and the headbanging and the moshing had begun. Armour Of God went on next, and this gig was a significant one for these guys, as they had been on a break of sorts for a while and were reuniting for this. Their last show was at the Unseen Underground Pub Fest in September 2009. Armour of God may have been out of the gigging circuit for a while, but they proved they were back, and put up a fairly tight show with some of their originals and their trademark- Children of Bodom covers.

Stitch, an Alternative punk band based in Delhi did not take too much time to introduce themselves to all who’d come to watch. After the initial dose of metal, Stitch was a refreshing change in the line-up of bands, and had good energy and a nice brand of punk tunes. After this was when Djinns Lament came on. They are a progressive / melodic death metal band from Chennai brought people back to the headbanging mode. They made the place seem fuller than what the organizers expected, and were on stage when the clock struck 12. They created just the perfect atmosphere to welcome 2011 with “Demon Of The Fall”, the Opeth cover. A perfectly metal start to the year, right?

Alternative rock group Borrowed Halos went on next, and with the general spirit of cheer all around, these guys added to the overall good mood. TWKC (Thundu Beedi Water Packet Kuchi Ice Curd Rice) , another metal band, came on next. These fellows seem to have quite a fan following in the city, and played an original heavy set and had the crowd in their highest spirits, pun intended. Old school thrash metal band Zealous from Mumbai went on next, and though everyone was well in the mood for their music, (especially because Chennai has a derth of these brand of metal bands), they ran out of time. It was almost 3 AM, and the show had to be stopped.

But on the whole, the gig was a great way to welcome 2011. It also was a great start to the year for Unseen Underground, which only promises to keep metal alive and bring you more live shows through this year and the rest. To keep yourself up to date with what’s happening at Unseen Underground, visit http://unseenunderground.blogspot.com/