Thrash/Death Metal juggernaut Devoid signs to Transcending Obscurity India for upcoming shows and releases. Founder/Manager Kunal Choksi comments, “I’ve known this band since its inception, the initial interest back when I used to run Diabolical Conquest. Fate had it that we would join hands, when the band is one of the country’s biggest and Diabolical Conquest… Read More Thrashers DEVOID sign to TRANSCENDING OBSCURITY
Bangalore based classic heavy metal band ‘BLOOD & IRON‘ has released their third album ‘Voices Of Eternity‘. Formed in early 2005 and then after releasing 2 albums, the band’s lineup changed in 2010. Following line up changes in 2010, it was decided that a new line up was required to deliver the kind of music… Read More BLOOD & IRON release third album ‘Voices Of Eternity’
Headbanger’s Merchandise and Transcending Obscurity webzine presents, METAL AT THE TAVERN. This will be Horror Metal band Albatross’ warm up gig before their upcoming Australian tour, between 24-26 October. Event takes place on September 8th at Hotel United 21, Thane. Complete lineup performing at ‘Metal At The Tavern’ are: Albatross Demonic Resurrection Solar Deity Djinn… Read More GIG ALERT: METAL AT THE TAVERN feat Albatross, Solar Deity and more
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
EVILUTION, a gig to take place at ION BAR and KITCHEN , Brigade Road, Bangalore on Sunday, 02nd June 2013. The gig featuring 6 metal acts with variety of genres. Check band line-up below: Threinody– Thrash Metal A 3-piece thrash metal act from Bangalore formed in 1996, who along with Kryptos and Myndsnare from Bangalore… Read More GIG ALERT: EVILUTION feat. Albatross, Bhoomi, Threinody and More
TRIBUTE TO MOTÖRHEAD, a tribute album by India’s underground metal bands for one of the most influential bands of all time, Motörhead. This 13-track album is now available for pre-order as CD or a combo of CD,t-shirt and poster or can be digitally downloaded from Bandcamp where its currently streaming. There are three track changes from… Read More TRIBUTE TO MOTÖRHEAD now available to stream and pre-order
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
Mumbai based horror metal outfit Albatross has recorded a tribute to heavy metal legends Judas Priest, and released it for free streaming on their SoundCloud page. The track in question is Night Crawler from the album Painkiller. The track has been recorded, mixed and mastered by Sahil ‘Demonstealer’ Makhija at Demonic Studios, Mumbai. The two… Read More Albatross records a tribute to Judas Priest
Violent Revolution. Like all revolutions, it began fearlessly and then hit a brick wall. Make that a concrete wall. An iron wall. An ironic heavy metal wall, if you will. First, the great Indian government denied Iced Earth – one of the co-headlining acts – their visas. For unclear and clearly vague reasons. And then… Read More GIG REVIEW: Bangalore Open Air
Mumbai’s horror metal band, ALBATROSS, was slated to perform in Shillong on May 5th at Cloud 9 cafe. Unfortunately, the band has to cancel the Shillong show and has issued the following note on their Facebook page : Our show in Shillong has been cancelled because of reasons beyond our control. However, we can’t let… Read More Albatross cancels Shillong show
Every time I get a new album in my hand, woah in my music player actually (thanks to the “digital download”), the first thing my ears carves for is WHAT’S NEW? And this “What’s New” trauma keep chasing me until I end up with exploring the whole record and thus concluding if it was up… Read More REVIEW: Albatross/Vestal Claret Split EP
Bangalore Open Air announced the co-headliners ICED EARTH and KREATOR earlier in April and have now revealed complete lineup of supporting bands. The supporting bands were revealed everyday in the past week. The supporting bands are : 1833 AD Kryptos Eccentric Pendulum Dying Embrace Bevar Sea Albatross B.O.A have also launched their new website and… Read More Bangalore Open Air complete lineup announced