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Nominees in the ‘Metal’ category at the Radio City Freedom Awards announced

On 16th February, Radio City announced the nominees for their annual Freedom Awards. This year saw all of NINE nominations in the ‘Best Metal Artist’ category, spanning cities across India. The nominees are as follows, VOTE for your favourite:

 

  1. BHAYANAK MAUT– ‘Now Creation. Forever Destruction’| Man
  2. INNER SANCTUM– ‘Guardian’| Legions Awake
  3. AMORPHIA– ‘The Lieber Code’
  4. AGAINST EVIL– ‘War Hero’| Fatal Assault
  5. ALBATROSS– ‘In the Lair of Dr. Hex’| Fear From the Skies
  6. ABERRANT– ‘End Game’
  7. DEMONIC RESURRECTION– ‘Even Gods do Fall’| The Demon King
  8. RECTIFIED SPIRIT– ‘Empire’| The Waste Land
  9. WIRED ANXIETY– ‘Heavily Sedated’

DEMONIC RESURRECTION announce flash Europe mini-tour

Symphonic metal stalwarts DEMONIC RESURRECTION, who recently played at Slovenia’s Metaldays festival, have just announced a quick mini-tour around 4 European cities before heading off to Czech Republic to play at the Brutal Assault festival, alongside fellow Mumbai metallers GUTSLIT. The tour kicks off on August 1st and the details regarding venues and cities are in the poster. Catch them live if you’re in any of these European cities!

DR-europe tour 2015 poster

XANDRIA to headline BITS-Pilani Hyderabad’s Pearl

German symphonic metal band Xandria will be headlining the annual cultural festival Pearl at BITS-Pilani‘s Hyderabad campus on 14th March, having previously been headlined by acts such as Dark Tranquillity and Decapitated. The band will be managed by Orka Networks during this time, the events company that brought Gojira and Bloodshot Dawn to India, among other bands. Xandria released their 6th full-length album Sacrificium last year, to extremely positive reviews. As a stroke of absolute coincidence, their 3rd full length from 2005 was titled India. Whether that was due to having visited the country before or as a vicarious step we are not sure, but we at Headbangers India are glad that they can finally visit the namesake of that release.

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 reveal artwork for fourth album ‘The Demon King’

Mumbai symphonic veterans Demonic Resurrection have unveiled the cover artwork for their forthcoming full-length album The Demon King.

 

The artwork has been done by Polish artist Michal ‘Xaay’ Loranc who designed the artwork for the last release as well. He has worked on other bands’ visual identities such as Reptilian Death, Nile, Behemoth and Vader in the past. The band decided to clearly go for a more homegrown feel this time around with depictions of (probably) the battle between Lord Rama and the demon king Ravana. The album’s tracklist is as follows:

  1. The Assassination
  2. Facing The Faceless
  3. The Promise Of Never
  4. Death, Desolation And Despair
  5. The Demon King
  6. Architect Of Destruction
  7. Trail of Devastation
  8. Shattered Equilibrium
  9. Even Gods Do Fall
  10. The End Paradox

DR the demon king album cover

The band will release the album on 13th July in India via Universal Music India, on the 14th in the UK and Europe via Candlelight Records and on the 15th in the US and the rest of the world.

The album can be pre-ordered from the UK already and will be ready for pre-order in India later this week. The band will also be touring the UK extensively during the month of July with a multi-city pub tour announced, supported by UK doom metal band De Profundis. They will also be playing at the Eradication Festival in Cardiff, Wales on the 12th of July. Before that, the band will be playing on the Dubai Rock Festival bill, alongside bands like Nightmare, Loudblast and Nervecell.

DR de profundis poster

Daniel Kenneth Rego quits Demonic Resurrection

After 6 years and 2 albums (including the as yet unreleased 4th full-length), lead guitarist of Mumbai metal veterans Demonic Resurrection, Daniel Kenneth Rego has decided to quit the band. The reasons cited were changing musical interests and professional priorities, as detailed in this personal statement:

To everyone who’s listened to and supported Demonic Resurrection over all these years, thank you. My decision to part ways with the band is based on a simple fact – I no longer feel the same passion and connection with this style of music, in general. Demonic Resurrection is at a stage where it requires a 100% from everyone involved in order to move forward, and speaking as an individual musician, I feel I am no more in the musical and aesthetic space to fully give to the band what it deserves. I hope I will continue to receive your support in my endeavours in other musical idioms, a few of which will be formally announced in the near future. Until then, to quote a famous musician, ‘Cheers and stay Demonic!

As a farewell, Demonic Resurrection will be playing a show at Mumbai’s Blue Frog on the 19th of January.

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.

New Dimmu Borgir single ‘Gateways’ now streaming

Dimmu Borgir-Gateways single cover
Dimmu Borgir-Gateways single cover

An update from the Dimmu Borgir camp: The band released their latest single titled Gateways for streaming on August 27th 2010. It can be heard on YouTube and their Myspace page here. It features heavy orchestration and a female voice that is rumoured to actually be that of ICS Vortex but with an extreme pitch increase. Vortex, as is common knowledge now is no longer part of the band and was kicked out along with keyboard player Mustis. This song will obviously be featured on their upcoming album ‘Abrahadabra’, scheduled for release in September/October.