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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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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The Down Troddence from Cochin today released the single “Nagavalli” from their upcoming debut album titled “How Are You? We Are Fine. Thank You!”. The song articulates a suppressed woman’s rage and how she assumes her universal form symbolised by the famous character, ‘Naagavalli’ in the movie “Manichithrathazhu”. The artwork[…]
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Pune’s groove metal machine Chaoskampf have announced that they are looking for a new vocalist after long time frontman Shreyas Kandekar quit the band very recently. Here is the official announcement from Facebook: Well here is to let you know that we are looking for a vocalist. We request all[…]
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Sushmit Mazumdar, long-time bass player for Delhi’s black metal quintet 1833 AD, has quit the band. The band released an official statement on Facebook earlier today: We regret to inform that Sushmit Mazumdar would not be handling the bass duties for 1833 AD anymore due to certain personal reasons. He[…]
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It’s the return of metalcore at live shows the coming January 2014, as Architects will headline IIT Madras’ festival Saarang 2014, at the ‘Rock Show’. Though the Brighton boys are primarily a metalcore band, they don’t stick only to that genre, and some of their songs evidently have influences from[…]
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The Down Troddence, folk-thrash/groove metal band hailing from Kannur, Kerala have released promo material for their debut album. “How are You? We are Fine, Thank You” is the curiously-chosen title for this debut release. The album artwork has been created by upcoming artist Abhijith and the new logo for the band was designed[…]
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Blood & Iron, the heavy/power metal band originally from Chennai, are all set to unleash the third album ‘Voices of Eternity’ on heavy metal fans all over the world. They have released a promo containing snippets from 5 of their songs off the album. The new line-up of the band[…]
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French extreme progressive metal band Hacride are ready to return to India in June in a huge way, this time by playing a tour all throughout the country. The poster below was released less than 24 hours ago. The tour is being organized jointly by Orka Networks and The Link[…]
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Bangalorean death/thrashers Inner Sanctum have officially been announced as part of the highly all-star line-up at a one-of-a-kind beach metal festival called Burning Sea in Croatia this year. The event’s headliners are King Diamond and Iced Earth, being supported by such giants as Overkill, Destruction, Candlemass and Amorphis. Here’s hoping[…]
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