After its immensely successful first edition in August 2012 (Headlined by Mumbai based Brutal Death/Grind band Gutslit), Entombed Metal Fest (EMF) is back with a bang with its second edition scheduled to take place @ Hotel Elite Ambience – Wakad, Pune on the 9th of February, 2013. Volume II of EMF promises to be bigger… Read More GIG ALERT : Entombed Metal Fest II
The nominees for the 8th edition of the Jack Daniel’s Rock awards have been announced. This year veteran rockers Indus Creed have been nominated in seven categories for their 2012 release Evolve. The Jack Daniel’s Annual Rock Awards ceremony will take place on the 22nd of February at Mehboob Studios in Mumbai. Voting is now open to… Read More Jack Daniel’s 2012 rock awards nominees announced
Indian thrash metal band Sceptre have revealed that the name of their new album is ‘Age Of Calamity‘. The artwork for the new record has been done by designer Aakash Dwivedi who has previously worked with bands like Albatross, Solar Deity and Eyehategod. “When coming up with the album name and theme we wanted to… Read More Sceptre reveals album title and artwork
Iron Fist Records is proud to announce a tribute album by India’s metal underground for one of the most influential bands of all time, Motörhead. The album, titled simply “Motorhead Tribute – India“, is a reference to the iconic “Motorhead – England” imagery. As for the cover artwork, it follows a proud Motorhead tradition of… Read More Iron Fist records to release first ever Motörhead tribute album
Mortar is a Old School Thrash Metal band based in Kolkata, India. Ever since their inception in 2011, Mortar has been providing the dormant Thrash Scene in India something to cheer about. Mortar in the recent past have released two singles – “The Human Plague” and “Ground Reality” which have been critically acclaimed by the… Read More Old school thrashers Mortar to release debut EP “Ground Zero”
The III edition of the Impending Doom Festival will be held on Jan 19th featuring the legendary Indian Band Millennium. Millennium are back after their last performance in 2008 opening for Megadeth. Other supporting bands are: Kryptos Dying Embrace Bhoomi Venue : NO LIMITS Near Garuda Mall. Above Nalli Silks Tickets : 300 Bucks +… Read More GIG ALERT: Impending Doom III feat Millennium
Mumbai based symphonic black metal, COSMIC INFUSION, have released a lyric video of their new single ‘Burial Of Thy Own‘. The single was released in December 2012 on their Bandcamp page. The recording was done by CI and subsequently the mixing and mastering was done by Vishal J. Singh (Amogh Symphony). The single release will… Read More Black metallers Cosmic Infusion release lyric video of new single
‘Heavy Mental’ band Workshop based in India featuring members of Demonic Resurrection and Skyharbor have released a guitar play through video for the title track of their upcoming album ‘Made Love To The Dragon‘. The video showcases the playing of Demonstealer (Demonic Resurrection) and Devesh Dayal (Skyharbor). Demonstealer also recently signed up to endorse Laney… Read More Workshop release guitar play-through video of new track
Indian thrash metal giants Sceptre have announced the release of their 2nd full-length album and released a video revealing the band’s new logo. The album comes after a considerable gap of 5 years since the release of their debut record in 2008 ‘Now Or Never‘. Bass player Janus Sanyal commented “We have been writing the… Read More Sceptre announces sophomore album and reveals new logo
Blood Division (Singapore) and DYING EMBRACE (India) have just been confirmed to headline the third TRENDSLAUGHTER FEST on Feburary 10th, 2013 in Bangalore, India. According to the organizers (Cyclopean Eye Productions/Trendslaughter crew), the festival has been created to “bring Bangalore the best of underground metal by getting both foreign acts, bands around India and Bangalore… Read More GIG ALERT: Trendslaughter Fest III feat Blood Divison
After the elevated success of Great Eastern Rock Vol. IV with over 45,000 sales, Northeast India based popular magazine The Northeast Today (TNT) is gearing up to release their 5th edition of Great Eastern Rock compilation album which is to be freely distributed along with the April ’13 edition of their magazine. They have already… Read More Great Eastern Rock ‘V’: The Northeast Today call for entries
Counterplot Theory was earlier known as Forsaken. Their E.P ‘Disengage’ & ‘Hemispheres’ proved a point that the band is willing to produce different sound. With the influences ranging from Megadeth, Lamb of God, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Opeth, Porcupine Tree and more, each one of the sounds can be heard. The EP was received. The… Read More Counterplot Theory release debut single