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Albatross: New album announcement + release of single

After 2 successful split releases, Albatross finally announced their debut full-length album Fear From the Skies, set for release on 20th May 2014. 

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The Mumbai-based metallers of the old-school added to that announcement today by releasing the single ‘In the Lair of Dr. Hex’. The album will be released via Transcending Obscurity India Records, the artwork for the same having been designed by Rahul Chacko.

Listen to the new song right here!

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Albatross to launch split-EP ‘The Kissing Flies’ this March

We, at Headbangers India, have been excited about this for a while now, and it’s finally here! Roadcrew Records has just announced the release of a split CD featuring Mumbai based horror/heavy metal band Albatross and Connecticut based occult/heavy metal band Vestal Claret. The CD will officially be launched at Albatross’s album release gig the 30th of March at Star Rock, Chennai. It contains two tales of darkness, morbidity and despair. To know a little more about this release, do some catching up by checking out this interview we conducted a while ago.

‘The Kissing Flies’ is Albatross’s follow up to the critically acclaimed ‘Dinner is You’. This time it tells the story of a town which is on the verge of death, and is infested by demonic flies who’re drawn to this death and decay. The EP features guest performances by Niklas Stalvind (Wolf), Murari Vasudevan (Rat King) and The Demonstealer (Demonic Resurrection). Albatross will support this EP with a multi city album tour across venues in India.

If you haven’t been introduced to Uncle Sunny at the Tavern yet, well… here’s your link:
http://soundcloud.com/albatrosshorror/uncle-sunny-at-the-tavern

The album will be sold via Roadcrew Records from March 31st onwards. Please contact the label directly for sales, orders and wholesale purchases.

The track listing is as follows:

01. Albatross – Wither
02. Albatross – Uncle Sunny At The Tavern
03. Albatross – Kissing Flies
04. Albatross – From Ashes Comes Life
05. Vestal Claret – Black Priest

Watch this space for updates.

Workshop disbands!

Mumbai’s “funny band” Workshop has just called it quits. It was only recently that Riju Dasgupta, bass player, announced that he would be quitting the band to concentrate on his other project Albatross. And just as the note released says, Riju, along with Sahil and Hamza, were the main guys in the band, and without that equation, it didn’t seem right anymore.

Here’s the complete note they released via their Facebook page:

“After almost 4 years as a band, releasing 1 album, playing tons of shows and filling the internet with video blogs and other madness, we who are Workshop have decided to call it quits. This was a very hard decision for us to make and we have long pondered over it. Workshop has been a part of all our lives and we will forever cherish our moments together as a band and the support we’ve received over the years from friends, family, fans and any other catagory of people we may have excluded.

Workshop in essence was Sahil, Riju and Hamza. It just doesn’t feel the same anymore and it would be wrong to continue the project without us being 100% into it, it wouldn’t be fair to us or the fans. So we feel that it is time to call it quits.

We were in the process of writing and recording our 2nd album and while we don’t know what to do with the music but we are goign to complete the recording process and then take a call if we should release it or not. But for now the band Workshop is now over. So we put down our yellow hard hats and undress ourselves out of the jump suits or ‘broiler’ suiits as Demonstealer once called them and we hang them up high.

We loved every minute of this awesome journey and we received so much love and support and even braved the critisim we often faced about ruining metal/music by adding humor to it, but given the chance we’d do it all over again. Workshop was an extension of who we are as people and when people are not there anymore it cannot be Workshop.

We’re rambling now, but that is mainly because it is always painful to say goodbye. So stay funny, stay fantastic and we’ll see you on the dark side of the spoon.

Signing off,
Workshop”

And also check out this very creative farewell message to fans.

Click here to view.

Headbangers India wishes the band members all the best with their other projects. As for the rest of you, the post for humor-metal band is now currently vacant. Think you can give it a shot?

Riju Dasgupta quits Workshop

Mumbai based metal band Workshop has just announced that Riju Dasgupta aka The Rijunator has quit the band.

The note reads:

“It is with great sadness that we announce the departure or our longtime bass player, founding member of Workshop and close friend Riju from the band. After 3 years with Workshop Riju has decided to pursue a different path.

We’ve had an amazing journey together and all good things in life do come to an end so we wish Riju a lot of success in his musical journey ahead. While it is almost impossible to imagine Workshop without him we have decided to carry on and will soon be auditioning bass players.”

Riju also released a note explaining the reason for quitting the band:

“Dear fans and friends,

In what has been a very difficult decision, I’ve decided to step down as the bassist of Workshop. Difficult not only because I’ve had a total blast playing before you fuckers across the country, but because Sahil and Hamza are two of the best friends I’ve ever had. From making an absolute fool of myself on national TV to making an absolute fool of myself off TV, from getting all excited about Bunty Aur Mallika Sherwath video stats to watching you all scream ‘Do Bade Bubbley’ when we played the song, from the madness onstage and in the jamroom to the food we stuffed ourselves with post the jams; the journey’s been nothing short of fucking awesome.

And now you ask, why then dost thou quit? As of now I’m focused on my main project Albatross and it’s a full time commitment. I wish Workshop all the best; as I know they’ll keep kicking ass without me and I pledge my support to whatever they decide to do.

And to conclude here’s thanking everyone who’s ever been part of the Workshop clan- Sahil, Hamza, Raj, Devesh, Shome, Zain, Mrudul, Jared, Deepti, Mikhail, Basrur, Bipro, Eshaan, Santhosh, Aditya, Demonic Resurrection, Coshish, Channel [v], every fucking gig organiser who’s invited us for their fest, everyone we’ve shared the stage with, everyone who’s ever interviewed us, everyone who’s made these last 3 years really special. Love you all.

So long and thanks for all the bukkake,

The Rijunator”

Workshop issues new album update

Demonstealer, frontman of Indian Humor Metal band Workshop (also DemonicResurrection) has just checked in from Demonic Studios where the band iscurrently recording their currently untitled 2nd full length album due forrelease on Demonstealer Records in June/July. The band is now out with a recording blog, which they call ‘Stupidity in the Studio’.
“We’ve got 9 songs for the album and I’ve completed tracking my guitarparts which took all of 3 days and we’ll be starting to record the rest ofthe band soon. While recording the 9 songs I also spontaneously recorded 2bonus tracks which we will release exclusively for fans who buy our box set.The songs on this album are very different from what we did on Khooni Murgaand even the production will be more organic, yet powerful and ballsy.”

Check out the band’s Youtube channel here.

Watch the first episode of ‘Stupidity in the Studio’ here.

 

Albatross reveal cover art and track list

Horror metal band ‘Albatross’ from Mumbai who recently signed to Demonstealer Records have revealed the cover artwork and tracklist for their debut EP ‘Dinner Is You’.

‘Dinner is You’ is a sick, sadistic tale of cannibalism and the Kuru disease, which is a nervous system disorder afflicting cannibals, making them laugh uncontrollably. Each song is a spine-chilling story told through skull crushing metal.

The album has been mastered by Grammy nominated guitarist *Andy LaRocque* from King Diamond/Death.

Tracklist:

1. The Great Plague Of The 21st Century

2. The Dining Table

3. In The Court Of Kuru

4. Among the Cannibals

The band has released their track ‘The Dining Table’ for streaming on their Myspace page. (http://www.myspace.com/albatrosshorror)

The album can be pre-ordered from http://demonstealerrecords.com/shop