indian metal

The Playlist Special: Nitin Rajan

The Playlist Special: Nitin Rajan

The long-standing metal vocalist picks heavy hitters as his top tracks, including early Obituary, a Pantera rager and an AC/DC…

March 31, 2016

Demonstealer Gets Introspective on ‘This Burden Is Mine’

Mumbai metal’s poster boy gets out of the haloed extreme metal comfort zone on his solo album

March 8, 2016

The Near No-Show That Was Metal Assault, Bengaluru

With noise complaints and alleged lack of permissions, police authorities prevented India’s best metal bands from taking the stage

March 7, 2016

Systemhouse33’s Big-Groove Break Out

The Mumbai thrash metal band go straight to the riffs on their fifth album ‘Regression’

March 1, 2016

Elemental Recall Bhopal Gas Tragedy on Debut Album

The Bhopal death metal band’s first release ‘Creation of the Damned’ details the 1984 gas tragedy

February 25, 2016

Why Indian Metal Gets A Bad Rap

The metal scene is as disorganized as ever. Who is to blame – indifferent venues, free-loading fans or artists themselves?

February 22, 2016

Exclusive Release: Strangulate Roll Out Timeless Death Metal On ‘Primordial Execution’

The death metal duo's second single is the perfect score to a killing spree

February 11, 2016

Gaijin To Debut at G-Shock Rolling Stone Metal Awards 2016

The Mumbai-based tech-death metallers take to the stage at the seventh edition of RSMA on Februrary 28th

February 10, 2016

Photos: G-Shock Rolling Stone Metal Awards 2016 Pre-Show ”“ Insurrection 6.0

The sixth edition of the Bengaluru gig series drew a formidable crowd, with folk/groove metal band The Down Troddence and…

February 8, 2016

G-Shock Rolling Stone Metal Awards: Pre-shows in Bengaluru, Guwahati and Delhi

Rectified Spirit, Plague Throat, Grammy Winning Effort and more are slated to perform at gigs through February

January 29, 2016