Reviews
It was a just another end-of-summer weekend in the software capital of India with showers rampant across the city of Bangalore on the eve of India’s largest metal festival. The spirits were high, literally at the ‘Bak Bak Bar’, with The Score Magazine bringing together 5 bands- Fragile Silence, Nihilus, Providence and the ‘Wacken Metal… Read More GIG REVIEW: Bangalore Open Air 2013
I want to start this review with just talking about my middle eastern favorite band in melodic doom/death band field: Chalice Of Doom. Chalice Of Doom is one of the biggest bands of the middle east in the doom metal area, and after releasing “Immemorial Nightfall” many labels have been looking around for inking the… Read More REVIEW: CHALICE OF DOOM – Into Hypnagogia
Orphaned Land is becoming one of the most important oriental metal bands in the world today, because their spectacular music that sums up the elements of progressive and death metal with the Middle-Eastern folk music are getting more professional with every full-length album. After the successful materials that the band released in the albums Mabool… Read More REVIEW: ORPHANED LAND – All Is One
Soilwork means to ‘work up from below the ground’. This melodic death metal band from the Swedish town of Helsingborg has been a trendsetter in their genre ever since their formation as Inferior Breed in 1995. Starting out as an out-and-out melodic death metal band, Soilwork had become pioneers. With a whiff of refreshingly aggressive… Read More REVIEW: SOILWORK – The Living Infinite
Ho ye! Whit’s new? This tribute is Bee’s Knees and is gobsmacking luminous! Intensity of a frantic bull fused with the ferocity of a wounded tiger, the grand-daddies of Indian Metal; Millennium unleash their ferocity on ‘Iron Fist’ this album’s title track. Parallel to its counterpart, Millennium propel their music with matching speed, the song’s… Read More REVIEW: VARIOUS – Motorhead Tribute India
The fall of the millennium saw the rise of many a metal bands all over India, bands that encapsulated the spirit of raw and high-energy heavy metal with perfection. These bands inculcated a sense of pure metal-head ecstasy in the willing crowds that thronged their shows and also bought their CD’s, thanks to widespread promotion… Read More REVIEW: SCEPTRE – Age Of Calamity
Reptilian Death are a Death Metal band based in Mumbai, India that began as Sahil Makhija, a.k.a The Demonstealer’s solo project in the summer of 2001. The project took off with the release of ‘5 Easy Ways to Kill People’, which was a light-hearted take on murder. Intense in terms of music and humorous content,… Read More REVIEW: REPTILIAN DEATH – The Dawn Of Consummation And Emergence
The past decade has seen quite the number of contemporary metal bands rising up in pockets of the vast country that is the United States of America, riding the wave of pure and raw heavy metal. Formed in 2008, Holy Grail sure does count, backed up by refreshing, mind-blowing and head bang-worthy music. Lining up… Read More REVIEW: HOLY GRAIL – Ride The Void
Long time ago of a time long forgotten… I journeyed back into time to witness ‘The Walls of Jericho’, the 1985’s album which debuted HELLOWEEN. So how was my journey back in time? It was transcending, with tracks such as ‘Phantoms of Death’ and ‘Metal Invaders’ my trip was more fanatical than a Halloween party.… Read More REVIEW: Helloween – Straight Out Of Hell
Come April 2013, and we have yet another release by an Indian band. This time it’s progressive/technical/groove metal quintet ITERATE from Chennai. The brainchild of Siddharth Darbha, guitarist of Tessitura, Iterate started out in the September of 2011. The band is: Siddharth Darbha – Guitars (Tessitura) David Simon – Vocals Simon (ex-Blind Image, Liquid Measure)… Read More REVIEW: ITERATE – Ephemerals EP
Viieden, the new Brutal Death Metallers on the Middle East’s map, have started their musical journey by releasing their first EP just a few days ago. The band was formed back in 2011 in Syria by Hazem Mallah, Abdullah Ghosheh and Fadi Massamiri. To go straight to my thoughts about the release, this piece is… Read More REVIEW: VIIEDEN – Calamities Inflicted EP
God loves us all. Slayer. Say it slowly, like a word you’re hearing for the first time, and not something you’ve known for 18 years (that’s probably how long I’ve been listening to them, and the band themselves have been around for 30 or more). Say it again. Even softly, if you want to. And… Read More GIG REVIEW: Slayer at Rock ‘N India