Hi Exhumation! This is surely going to be one of the first detailed interviews among the ones you have given off late, I hope you give our readers maximum to read about yourself?
Hi Atul!Hi Saion!We’ll tell the readers as much as we can.

Lets take it from the start; tell us how exhumation came into existence? Any initial hiccups, visionary challenges, dropouts etc if any?
Prashant,Yash and I started playing music as Mortuary.That didn’t last too long because we joined Demonic Resurrection.We had different ideas and knew we could do a lot more if we had our own thing going and so we formed Exhumation.

You seem to be an on-off band, haven?t scene you guys doing many gigs, firstly tell us why don’t we see much of you and more importantly, tell us which all venues/gigs have you recently played?
We don?t play too many gigs because we get bored of watching the same bands every one or two months and dont want people getting bored of us.
I think it?d be more exciting if we played once in 6 months or something. For the last 10 months or so we?ve all been busy with work and studies so we haven’t had the time to play?and now Razzberry Rhinoceros isn?t there. We haven?t played in over a year,the last gig was at Razzberry Rhinoceros in October 2004.

Have you played outside Mumbai? Do you plan to play any particular gigs/shows in the months to come, if yes, then tell us in which direction is your arrow pointing?
We’ve played in Pune once and are looking forward to playing in Bangalore and other cities.We?ll play wherever there are metalheads

Our readers are curious about your musical preferences? What styles/bands you guys follow? And what do you write about in your songs?
We?re all into extreme metal,of course and listen to other music as well.I like some old pop and classical and Prashant is into hardcore(his side project is a hardcore band called Scribe).Yash likes Eminem,haha.
I write anything I feel strongly about.It could be gory or evil stuff or just things that I see around me.

Looking at the state of affairs of the INDIAN EXTREME metal scene ,are you satisfied in terms of progress extreme bands are making? Do you think is the Indian audience waking up to the original music of such bands? How strongly do you support original music?
I think its all going really slow but the good thing is that it is happening.Of course,there are people who want to hear original music and are encouraging bands to play their own stuff instead of covers.Its the original music that really counts!
Any bands in India you look up to or like?
I love Blasphemy!

Do you plan to record any new material or cut an E.P, lots of bands seem to be doing that these days, do you think that works?
We’ve been thinking about it but I don?t know if that’s what we want to do.The music will be available online anyway so I don’t know if there is any point in making a cd.

Any new original songs added to your list of ?Among the dead?, ?The awakening?, ?Orphanage carnage?, ?Under the knife?, ?Nothing but misery?, do give a little description of the song/songs?
There are too many songs,I don’t think you want me to list them here. Most of the songs are about gore and religion and my silly fantasies.

Lastly, what would you like to say to all the people who have or haven’t heard you? Any message to the fans/metal audience/bands?
Crawl back to your tombs ahahaha

Thank you Exhumation for your time!
thank you,guys!

Interviewers: Atul Sharma and Saion Chatterjee