Blind Image announced that the show at IIT with Vildjharta will be the last show for their guitarist VG Pranav.  A post of Facebook read “ We are looking in to replacements. This time around, we have decided to take our own time to pick the new guitarist who will fit the band not only as a guitar player but as a permanent band member too.”

The band has released an official statement that Ramanan Chandramouli aka Rama will be taking over guitar duties alongside Shri. Blind Image’s chief spokes person Krish says “We are really happy to have Rama on board. He is an amazing guitar player and most important of all, a down to earth guy. I’ve known him for over 6 years now and we’ve been friends for over 6 years now. He was my first choice to try out and it worked like magic. He exhibited great sense of professionalism during his audition. He walked in well prepared and nailed the songs. With his knowledge on different styles of guitar playing I am sure that he will add a new dimension to our music. And he is absolutely easy going and I am glad we have another awesome band mate now.  Oh and he just finished his first gig with us the day before at VIT when we supported Suidakra.”

Rama is a graduate from LA Music Academy, before which he was playing guitars for the band Sixth Element – a prog rock band from India.

Shri  – the chief song write of the band says – “Rama enthuses everything we have ever looked for as both a guitarist and a member of the band. He is more than capable, honest and professional as hell and yet funny in his own way. Although his humour comes at the expense of the rest of us here at Blind Image many a times. Haha. But jokes aside, Rama is a wonderful addition to the band and we hope to work with him for a long long time to come.  So from now on the chandramouli foundation will be handling the guitar section for Blind Image. (Inside joke)”

Rama is based out from Bangalore and also teaches guitar at the TAAQ academy – Bangalore along side Bruce from TAAQ.  We managed to extract few words from him on this:

Blind Image is all set to rock Dubai on Feb 24^th 2012 where they will be headlining the Global Metal Bash Festival