if hope dies

Your Guide to the Must-See Acts at Nagaland’s Hornbill, ImagiStage and Kohima Ridge Live

Your Guide to the Must-See Acts at Nagaland’s Hornbill, ImagiStage and Kohima Ridge Live

From New Delhi metallers Joint Family to Girish and The Chronicles, Chennai rock favorites The F16s and Nagaland mainstay act…

December 4, 2025

Premiere: Watch If Hope Dies Slam Through ‘Brand New You’ and ‘Flame Within’ in Live Video

The Sukna-based band are yet to perform their singles from last year at a gig

May 9, 2021

Watch If Hope Dies Smash Home a Message of Determination on ‘Brand New You’

The Sukna metallers aim for anthemic, bolstering breakdowns and an astonishing horn section with their latest track

July 8, 2020

Festival Report: Control ALT Delete 12, Mumbai

Experimentation, political commentary and spunk reined heavy over two days of the crowdfunded indie music festival

February 10, 2020

Exclusive Premiere: Darjeeling Metallers Confuzone’s Bludgeoning Single ‘The Sodomized Civilization’

The song is off their upcoming debut EP ‘The Solution X-Plosion’ which releases on January 6th

December 31, 2019

Listen: Darjeeling Metallers Obliterating Vortex’s Incisive New Song ‘Fractal Perceptions Rectified’

The tech-death metal band's new song follows up their 2015 EP ‘Machineurotic’

May 13, 2019

Exclusive Premiere: If Hope Dies Bring Polished Riffs on ‘Secrecy’

The Darjeeling-based metallers first release since 2016’s ‘Sukna’ EP features a modern prog sound

April 29, 2018

Best New Metal Acts

Six crushing bands from across India that you need to listen to right now

February 15, 2017

Exclusive Stream: If Hope Dies Rampage on Debut EP ‘Sukna’

Frontman Aakash Sherpa talks about being the only metal band from the foothill town of Sukna near Darjeeling

July 18, 2016