Well I haven't been to one in a long time. What am I supposed to do to hang with the cool kids? Is screaming for SKEPTAAAR still relevant and funny? Have you guys been attending any? Good bands around? I heard three decent bands today.

Parachute XVI - might see them on Friday if work goes as planned. I reviewed their demo ep, but they're rocking a lot more now. www.myspace.com/parachutexvi

Drones from the Turbine - digs.by/1bhM Some psychedelic slow buildup leading to a crescendo type thing. Interesting, and they add visuals. Good break from the bad eddie vedder bands, the cheerful extreme metal bands and not to mention all those tracksuit metal played by short people who want to jump and appear taller.

The Bicycle Days - www.myspace.com/thebicycledays I didn't like their first track Zen. Sounded like a TAAQ knockoff, and that's not at all a good thing, but the other two songs are interesting. Rock meets psych meets trip-hop meets tool meets radiohead or something.

I also know:

Inner Sanctum play it a bit safe, and do catchy too-close-to-the-mainstream type metal, but they do it good. They need more solos.

I don't know about live, but Theorized put out a damn good demo ep thang that I reviewed.

More later. Who else?

I'll put together a feature article on KvltSite if we get some good inputs from people and the bands are good enough to be talked about on the site.

*Newish, ongoing bands/projects only.

In rough order of preference/interest:

Another Vertigo Rush This band was brilliant when I saw them at GIR last year. They were IMO the ONLY worthwhile local band to play across two evenings. They are in the entire post blah blah space with lots of Tool and Isis influences but all of it kept very very interesting. Probably the only new Indian band that I look forward to buying music from.

Workshop Sahil's attempt at doing Primus/Infectious Groovesesque stuff. Your enjoyment on this depends entirely on your tolerance level for awful jokes many of which will make sense only to people living in Bombay. This is the most entertaining and original sounding of all of Sahil's projects.

Scribe Their debut EP was good in parts terrible in others, but more enjoyable than not. Their live act is generally fantastic. They don't take themselves too seriously, are brutally tight and a LOT of fun to watch. In the broad metalcorey category but a LOT better than most bands in that space.

Khiladi PMan's vocals could use a little work, but these guys have some pretty good songs. Seen them live twice and they put up a great show both times.

Devoid Caught them live a couple of times and they seem very good on an intital listen. Death Metal with rather too many breakdowns than I would have liked, but they have a aa very effective lead guitar section and seem promising over all.

Nice. MOAR PLZ.

HathyaSaiBaba wrote:
Another Vertigo Rush This band was brilliant when I saw them at GIR last year. They were IMO the ONLY worthwhile local band to play across two evenings. They are in the entire post blah blah space with lots of Tool and Isis influences but all of it kept very very interesting. Probably the only new Indian band that I look forward to buying music from.

Scribe Their debut EP was good in parts terrible in others, but more enjoyable than not. Their live act is generally fantastic. They don't take themselves too seriously, are brutally tight and a LOT of fun to watch. In the broad metalcorey category but a LOT better than most bands in that space.

Devoid Caught them live a couple of times and they seem very good on an intital listen. Death Metal with rather too many breakdowns than I would have liked, but they have a aa very effective lead guitar section and seem promising over all.

AVR and Scribe are fucking awesome liveacts, yeah. Scribe are coming out with a new album in a few months too. Devoid went from being the band that plays ANGEL OF DEAATH 3-4 years back to a way more fun but nothing new band.

Exhumation are great live, VERY boring on record.

Srikanth Panaman wrote:
Parachute XVI - might see them on Friday if work goes as planned. I reviewed their demo ep, but they're rocking a lot more now. www.myspace.com/parachutexvi

This sounds pretty shitty to me. Ananth sounds great though.

You can try Psyborg. Experimental/hardcore/trancy stuff by Manas Ullas of Bangalore. Last I heard, he used to be the vocalist for Stranglehold.
www.myspace.com/psyborgblr

You can try Blind Image too. I'd sent their album to you for review, remember? More Than Human, their 2nd album has Meshuggah, Textures and SiKth influences. Screamo/hardcore/groove metal.
www.blindimage.net

Seize Her put up an unexpectedly good show the last time I caught them, especially for the rather retarded moniker they possess -



Skrat play good live too, I bet Symphony can fill you in more on them.

Yeah, Skrat play a pretty awesome live set. They've got some good energy and their songs have a very sing-along feel to it.

Another good live act is Escher's Knot. They'll be releasing their album soon. Very very awesome music.