Dark Ritual

Dark Ritual is a death metal band from Indore. In fact, they seem pretty much like Vedic Metal to me, but the vocalist maintains that they're not, so alright, I'll take his word for it. It's a good band, with nice solid compositions. The rather poor quality of their production keeps their songs from receiving too many plays on my playlist. But I still wanna share, cause production is something that can be improved you know? The real stuff is the music.

Scratch Card Winners

Scratch Card Winners is a punk band from Bangalore. And unless someone is willing to correct me, I believe they're the only punk rock band in Bangalore, and they're on a mission to bring back punk rock, or at least Zoe is. So that alone makes them worth checking out (that and the fact that the music is good of course.)

Silver

Silver is the third and last band that I'm posting about from the Orphaned Land concert. They're from Pune and play a mix of stuff, broadly described as funk rock. Their Facebook group indicates that they have about fifteen songs composed, so the least you can say about them is that they're prolific. But they've recorded and uploaded three on Reverbnation, so I'll be posting about them today.

Crash TV

Crash TV are a band which I'm having a bit of trouble with, regarding what genre to describe them best as. Since they sound a lot like The Beatles most of the times, I'm just going to hope that they allow me to use the term "Britpop", but then their Facebook says the word too, so I don't think they'd disagree either. It's good shit though. Most most definitely worth a listen. Something new.

Pitch Black Symphony

Pitch Black Symphony from Pune, play what I think is a subtle mix of progressive with symphonic power metal. (And not symphonic just because their name has the word "Symphony" in it). Pitch Black Symphony released their EP at the Orphaned Land concert (where they were opening). And well, considering it was free, I went ahead and picked it up. Good decision. It's pretty damned good. They'd released a song called Child's Cry earlier. And in preparation for the Orphaned Land concert, I'd heard it a couple of times, but was rather unimpressed and had written off PBS as just another band which is popular cause they've been around for some time. (They also celebrated their four year anniversary with the concert.) Judging by their performance at the gig, I couldn't've been more wrong. Their sound has really improved, and they've really grown as musicians. The EP has three songs. But they're all very long, bringing the total playing time to twenty two and a half minutes, so it qualifies the time condition for an EP.

Existence Failed

Existence Failed is a Groove Metal band from Pune. And I had the good fortune of watching them live at the Orphaned Land. And considering their one song on Reverbnation is up for free download, I put it on my iPod, and was listening to it on the way. And man, they're heavy, boy. And I was so impressed by their live performance that I had to blog about them before I left Pune. So here's one from Pune.

Dammit!

I'm not swearing, though God knows I fucking love to. Dammit! is the latest I picked up as I went on a 2010 EP search. They're an alternative/punk band from Dharwad (The one with the law university where Prof. Nandimath and the CoPo are from). And well, they're actually pretty damned good. Not by Dharwad standards alone, but by any standards. In fact, they're number one on the Reverbnation Dharwad charts.