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Gutslit announce new vocalist

Brutal Death metal band from Mumbai – Gutslit, has just announced that Kaushal L.S. (Orchid; Godless; Ironic Reversal) will be taking over vocal duties from Aditya Barve. The band had been auditioning vocalists for more than six months, by asking them to cover a Gutslit original – “Scaphism”.

Watch Kaushal’s version of “Scaphism” here:

The band is in the process of recording their new album titled ‘Brodequin’ which has been slated for a late-2016 or early-2017 release through Transcending Obscurity (India). More updates as we have them.

Here are a few other audition videos that we HAD to share!

“Scaphism” cover by the Demonstealer:

 

“Scaphism” cover by Death Metal Casey:

DEMONIC RESURRECTION confirmed for Metaldays Slovenia 2015

The now household name in Indian metal, Demonic Resurrection, have been confirmed as part of the line-up for Slovenia‘s cult festival Metaldays, which takes place in the town of Tolmin. The festival lasts for an entire week (19th to 25th July this year) and this edition features a host of giant names, a fraction of them being the likes of Accept, Queensryche, Behemoth, Dream Theater and Carcass. Demonic Resurrection will themselves be sharing the stage with bands like Hirax and Butcher Babies, among others. We wish Sahil Makhija and his band all the best! May they continue to take Europe by storm, one country at a time!

Demonic Resurrection confirmed for Les Fest, Scotland

One of the country’s premier metal bands, Demonic Resurrection, will hit international shores once again. They have just confirmed that they will appear, for the first time, at Scotland’s “Award Winning Rock and Metal Festival”- Les- Fest in June 2014. They will be playing the main stage on Friday, the 27th of June 2014. Other acts in the festival include Sacred Mother Tongue, Falling Red, Cypher 16 and some others.

For more information on the festival, visit the official website.

Follow Demonic Resurrection on Facebook.

Reptilian Death release album artwork

Mumbai-based death metal band Reptilian Death have broken their visual silence in a huge way by finally revealing the cover artwork for their new album, the title of which is ‘The Dawn of Consummation and Emergence’. The artwork has been done by the venerable Michal ‘Xaay’ Loranc, the same Polish artist who did the job for Demonic Resurrection’s ‘The Return to Darkness’. The album has also been made available for pre-order here.

Demonic Resurrection announced as part of line-up for Bloodstock Open Air 2012

Indian symphonic metal band Demonic Resurrection were today announced as part of the Sophie Lancaster stage for the line-up on the 12th of August at U.K.’s biggest metal festival, Bloodstock Open Air. They share the stage with black metal bands Anaal Nathrakh and Winterfylleth, both from the United Kingdom Another historic achievement for Sahil Makhija and the rest of his demonic horde! See the confirmation HERE.

DR announce ‘All Star’ show, invite demos

Demonic ResurrectionIndian metallers Demonic Resurrection have announced an ‘All Star’ show on the 5th of November at the home of Mumbai’s metal shows B69. When quizzed about the ‘All Stars’ Demonstealer was quoted saying ‘We’re basically inviting our favourite singers from different Mumbai bands to join us on stage and sing their favourite DR songs, we’re also having a bunch of our favourite bass players do the same since Husain will be somewhere in the mountains at that time’. The gig is one of the pre-parties being held prior to the Bacardi NH7 Weekender Festival where Demonic Resurrection will be performing as well and have promised fans a truly ‘Demonic’ experience.

The band has once again thrown open the opportunity to open the show to a new band inviting demos to be sent for the band to review. “We strongly believe in giving new bands a chance to play alongside us because we think there are heaps of great bands out there that just need to be given a chance, when we started out it was the bigger bands at that point like Naked Earth, Fate and Sceptre who gave us a chance opening for them and we’ve come a long way since then, we’d like to give the young bands of today that same chance and we have a lot of faith that they will deliver a kickass performance given their drive and passion for metal.’ said Demonstealer.

Interested bands can email their demo links and band bios to demonic.resurrection.online@gmail.com by Sunday 23rd October.

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?

DSR launches PR and Booking agency

India’s Independent label Demonstealer Records, also one of the longest running Indian record labels that focuses on Extreme Metal music has now launched 3 new divisions; a booking agency, pr agency and a band consultancy.  The booking agency handles top Indian bands like Bhayanak Maut, Demonic Resurrection, Inner Sanctum, Devoid and many more.

“With our booking agency we aim to be the one stop for promoters and event organizers to book metal bands for their shows.  DSR has always been associated with quality and reliability in metal and we aim to carry that forward with this new venture as well. We also aim to be a secure channel for big international artists to book shows in India.” said Husain Bandukwala, Senior Booking Agent.

The DSR Bookings PR client list includes bands like Slain, Exhumation, Blood Meridian and The Circus and is also the country’s 1st Heavy Metal PR Agency.

Sahil Makhija, Proprietor of Demonstealer Records & DSR Booking said “ DSR has been doing PR for the longest time for bands on the label and Demonic Resurrection and we felt it was important to open this avenue up to other artists as well. There are no PR agencies for metal bands in this country and it is the need of the hour, bands aren’t always well equipped to do it themselves so that is where DSR PR comes into the picture.”

The band consultancy service offered by DSR is geared to prepare bands who aspire to make a career with music and get ahead in the industry. The intensive session covers everything from band building to studio prep to financial planning to stage management.

More details can be found on the company’s new website www.dsrbooking.com

Demonic Resurrection confirmed for Sonisphere Festival, UK

Demonic ResurrectionMumbai metal band Demonic Resurrection will make their first UK appearance at the Sonisphere Festival at Knebworth, England, on July 10, 2011. This will be the first time that an Indian band has played the festival. Demonic Resurrection will be joining a high-profile lineup of bands that includes Slipknot, Motorhead, Opeth, Gojira, Arch Enemy, In Flames and Mastodon besides the headliners — the Big Four of metal — Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax.

“We (Demonic Resurrection) are at a loss for words to describe how we feel on being confirmed to play Sonisphere. Just the thought of watching the Big 4, let alone be playing the same festival as them, is enough to give us goosebumps, not to mention the insane lineup of bands like Opeth (who we’ve opened for in India), Arch Enemy, Periphery and many others who we can’t wait to see. DR fans can expect a blistering performance from us, it is our first gig in the UK and we intend to make it a memorable one,” said the band in a statement released to the press. This will be the band’s third international concert appearance after playing the Inferno Festival in Norway and Brutal Assault in the Czech Republic last year. The band also said that they would be adding more UK dates to their tour.

Sonisphere is a touring music festival that takes place over several venues across Europe through June and July. The festival is in its third year and has quickly earned top billing on account of the big names on its lineup. This year the festival will travel to 12 cities in Europe.

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.