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A new GODLESS endeavour

Twin-city-based bone crushers Godless have just released their 1st music video, for the song ‘Oneiros’. The song was part of their hugely successful debut EP Centuries of Decadence, which was recorded with new vocalist Kaushal LS. The band features members from both Hyderabad and Bengaluru. The EP is available for streaming online through all major streaming services, as well as up for sale on their website.

Catch the band live in August when they embark on their massive 6-city India tour supporting Australian death metal technicians PSYCROPTIC and joined by New Delhi-based prog death metal band FRAGARAK.

 

 

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!

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ELUVEITIE announce double headers in India

 

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Swiss folk metal gauls Eluveitie have announced a return to Indian shores with 2 headlining performances at NIT Calicut and IIT Roorkee. The former will take place on the 27th of March at NIT Calicut‘s annual cultural festival Ragam while the latter will take place on the 29th of March at IIT Roorkee‘s annual fest Cognizance. In 2010, the band had headlined IIT Guwahati’s Alcheringa.

Eluveitie will be performing on the back of their 2014 release Origins, the band’s sixth full-length release. Their massive eight-member line-up include a violinist, a hurdy gurdy player and a flautist. They will be managed for this India tour by Orka Networks, the same folks who are bringing Xandria down to India and have also been responsible for managing other artistes like Gojira, Bloodshot Dawn and Hacride.

 

KRYPTOS to tour Germany with DEATH ANGEL

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Bangalore’s old-school metal torchbearers Kryptos are continuing their sorties of Europe. This time around it may just be their biggest announcement yet. They have now confirmed a tour of Germany with thrash metal superstars Death Angel, from the United States. This tour comes on the back of a highly successful tour with Italian melodic black metal band Graveworm last year and another Europe tour prior to that which included performances at Wacken Open Air and In Flammer Open Air metal festivals. The tour begins on 17th July in Weisbaden and ends on the 11th of August at Essen. From the Headbangers India family, we wish the band all the best as always and congratulate them on returning to Europe again and again, stronger every time.

FRAGARAK to embark on a South East Asia tour in February

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Progressive death metal act from New Delhi, Fragarak, has been confirmed to tour South-East Asia in February 2015. The 3-date tour will mark the band’s live debut in Singapore and Malaysia.

After their inaugural Asian tours in Nepal and China last year in support of full-length release Crypts of Dissimulation, the band is all set to play 2 shows in Penang (Malaysia) and Singapore, supporting legends Impiety in their 25th anniversary shows followed by an exclusive third show in Kuala Lumpur. Filling in on the drums for the band will be Siddharth Manoharan (from Nihilus, Djinn & Miskatonic). The dates and venues are as follows:

6th February – Penang, Malaysia (Dusthall Studio, Seberang Jaya)
7th February – SIngapore (The Substation, Armenian Street)
8th Febraury – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Pennylane, Sunway Mentari)

Impiety announces return to Indian shores

Singapore’s black/thrash titans Impiety have announced a return to the Indian subcontinent. The tour, that is christened the ‘Heretical Decimation India & Bangladesh Tour 2014‘, will see the band playing a date in Dhaka, Bangladesh followed by 2 dates in India, later this year in November. The band had played earlier this year in Bangalore at the Trendslaughter Fest as the headlining act. The band also went on tour in China with Delhi’s Fragarak as supporting act. The band’s spot at Hellfest Open Air 2014 (France) also garnered them new legions of fans. If you’re in Delhi or Kolkata, do not miss this opportunity!

TOUR DATES:

7th Nov 2014 – Dhaka, Bangladesh
8th Nov 2014 – Kolkata, India
9th Nov 2014 – New Delhi, India

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

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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.

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Fragarak announce tour of China

New Delhi progressive extreme metal band Fragarak have announced a tour of China scheduled for April/May. The band will play at 2 festivals in Zhenjiang and Shanghai respectively. They will be playing alongside the mighty Impiety from Singapore and other acts such as Annalyn (Thailand), Tenside (Germany), Narakam (China) and many more. The band will tour during the same time that their debut album ‘Crypts of Dissimulation’ completes a year since release. We sincerely recommend not missing this show if you’re reading this article from China! All the best to Fragarak from the entire Headbangers India team!

 

TOUR DATES:

30th April – Yangtze River International Music Festival @ Canal stage – Zhenjiang

3rd May – Asia Metal Festival @ Mao livehouse – Shanghai

 

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Albatross announces Australian Tour

Mumbai’s horror metal quintet Albatross announced the ‘Wings Down Under Australian Tour 2013’,  a tour that sees the band play in 3 different cities across Australia in October. This tour will be in support of their latest split EP ‘The Kissing Flies’ and will be made available at all 3 shows. The tour is being made possible by Aussie event management company Dominus Entertainment, headed by Australian power metal band Lord’s Andy Dowling. This will be Albatross’s first venture outside of India and from all of us at Headbangers India, we wish to see them make the Aussies kiss flies.

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Blind Image to play Metal Asylum Fest, Dubai

Blind Image has just announced that they will be playing at the Metal Asylum Festival in Dubai sometime this November 2013.

Following their SE asia tour 2012 , Blind Image is now in the studio working on their upcoming third album which is expected to release by mid 2013. The band has already confirmed their tour of South East Asia (September 2013). Dates for the same will be announced shortly.

Regarding their slot at Metal Asylum, the band’s chief spokesperson Krishna says -“We played in Dubai in the year 2011 as a part of the global metal bash. The experience was unique and we are really glad that we will be hitting Dubai again this year for playing at the Metal Asylum festival which also feature various band across Europe and Egypt.

We will be hitting Dubai right after we come back from our SE Asia part 2 which will be happening this September.

These 2 tours will follow our third album’s launch which will be happening mid 2013. Prior to this we will also be touring India.”

The Metal Asylum festival is one of the biggest festivals that happens in Dubai every year and features a lot of underground bands from all over the world.

Check the official event page for more.