Welcome to the Ice Age!!, loudly proclaims Vikram Bhat with a banshee shriek which rips your soul and threatens mutilate your mind for the next half an hour with one of the darkest albums ever to come out of this sub-continent. This is how B’lore based band Dying Embrace quickly get into overdrive {over your… Read More Dying Embrace – Serenades Of Depravity
Cranium, is one of the best Metal Bands of India hailing from Calcutta who leave chaos rampant in whichever cities they’ve destroyed with their sound and energy. Their debut No Mercy is an indestructible slab of Thrash Metal by which the entire Metal scene here can be judged. Expect no mercy when you listen to… Read More Cranium – No Mercy
Agni, one of the premier rock bands of this subcontinent released this classic album late in 1994, some 6 years ago. One of the foremost involved in the Indian rock and metal movement this band heavily worship Megadeth played to metal hungry audiences all over this country and were able to satisfy their headbanging desires.… Read More Agni – Wind Dance With Fire
Brahma, a Mumbai based metal quintet released their debut “The World Beyond” at Independence Rock back in ’98 through Virgo music, their record label also responsible for Agni’s debut too. Brahma has Devraj Sanyal on vocals, Dean Lazarus on lead guitar, John Ferns handling the rhythm section, Vince Thevor on bass and Cyrus Gorimar on… Read More Brahma – The World Beyond
Naked Earth is 5-member speed/thrash outfit from Mumbai comprising of Niel on vocals, Austin on lead guitars, Gilroy on rhythm guitar, and Melroy on the bass and Irwie on the drums. They recorded this demo of theirs comprising of covers and originals on the very first day of this year. All the 10 tracks were… Read More Naked Earth – Live In The Studio – Unlooped
Threnody, the leaders of the Metal revolution from B’lore performed to a packed crowd at the Strawberry Fields [N.L.S.] rock competition this November. They won top honors and were recording too that night to release the successor of their Live at NLS’99 recording. A short, crisp and intense performance by the band gets you into… Read More Threnody – Live At NLS 2K
Abhor is a 5-member death metal outfit from Mumbai who are famous for raising havoc on venues they are allowed to destroy!! The band consists of Sushil with his blasphemic vocals, Manjit with the slaughtering his six stringer, Ashish providing the hypnotic leads, Suhas with his sepulchral bass lines and Virendra (a left handed drummer)… Read More Abhor – Live At Aakarshan 2000
Dark Crucifix was an extremely talented death/thrash outfit from Cochin who recorded this short but brutal 3-song demo last year. The duo {yes!!} responsible for all the mayhem were Samir doing the gruffy growls and guitars, Jayesh belting out the blast beats providing you the glorious opportunities to break your neck. The band draws its… Read More Dark Crucifix – Chapters Of Damnation
Obituary remains one of the most impressive, most brutal, most respected, most influential bands in the death metal genre. Having perfected a distinct, slow, slimy, sludge-groovy, "OBITUARY" sound, they truly stand apart from the thousands of also-a-death-metal-band s. "Cause of Death" marks the time when they perfected the "Obituary" sound or maybe mastered the art… Read More Obituary – Cause Of Death
With an intro of some kind of demoniacal possession (sampled from "The Exorcist" series, I’m told) and the proclamation "They do it rather well, don’t you think?", prepare to get a lesson in sheer brutality from these Canadian monsters. This is the second full length release of the band,the debut being "Blasphemy Made Flesh". The… Read More Cryptopsy – None So Vile
Take a band whose core sound is devastatingly Morbid Angel-ish in it’s mannerisms.Throw in some Egyptian influences like weird chanting, traditional instruments and background synths.Mix it up nicely so that they get incorporated into the songs themselves.Then burn this death metal mayhem onto a CD. Yes sir,you guessed right. The black smoldering piece of plastic… Read More Nile – Black Seeds Of Vengeance
Ad Noctum:Dynasty Of Death is a very,very fitting title,for Limbonic Art have steered themselves down a similar path as fellow countrymen Gehenna,Keep Of Kalessin and to a certain extent,Emperor,by adopting more of a brutal death metal influence to co-exist with their symphonic black metal persona for their new full length release. The outcome is dark… Read More Limbonic Art – Ad Noctum:Dynasty of death