Dementia

There are at least two bands in the country named Dementia. I'll be discussing the one from Bangalore. The other one is from Delhi. While they've listed themselves as Progressive metal, they sound a lot more like groove/thrash/death metal than prog. In fact, if a casual listener were told that it's Lamb of God, he might be inclined to believe it. That's not necessarily a good thing though.

Bourbon Street

Bourbon Street are a jazz-fusion band from Bangalore. A little difficult to categorise them because they also play a little bit of blues-rock and profess to be mostly a jam band. Since their sound is more often than not a mix between jazz and rock, we'll go with jazz rock. Although they do have a vocalist, they've only uploaded an instrumental online, and some covers. 

Soli-lo-kwe

I have no idea what these guys play. I doubt if even they do. It's definitely electronic though, mixed liberally with rock/metal influences. I chanced upon the word "electrofusion" being used for this somewhere, so I'll go with electrofusion.

The News

This post is about the band from Bangalore. I'm not writing about a Japanese boy band. If you reached this link looking for the Japanese boy band, I'm sorry. Right, moving on, The News from Bangalore is a strange band to classify, so I won't. I'll just list the myriad of genres you can find in their music, and leave you to decide what works best for you: Rock, jazz, blues, funk, pop, country, acoustic and keyboard solo. Okay, that last part is only on request.

The Chronic Blues Circus

The Chronic Blues Circus, from Bangalore, are a blues band (fucking SURPRISE!!). They're one of the few bands in India who play authentic Blues, going so far as to featuring a real Harmonica in their music, so you know they ain't messing around. They've been around for more than 20 years, so they're kind of outside the scope of this blog (considering I deal in upcoming underground bands), but since they were surprised when my party shouted for Restless Woman (Exact reaction: "What did you say?? How do you know that song?!", I think, at least in their mind, they're obscure enough to qualify.

Franks Got The Funk

Finally. This is the word I've been feeling for the past three days. I've wanted to write this blog post for ten months now. And I finally get the chance, cause they just simply hadn't released their album till now. Franks Got The Funk (Henceforth "FGTF") are a funk rock band from Madras, who got second place at SF'10. Their debut album "+he Nex+ Level" is out, and three (now four) tracks are up for streaming. And well, it's awesome.

Ontologus

Ontologus were previously called Requiem, and well, Requiem seems like it would have been a pretty common name for a band, in fact there were three in India alone according to Reverbnation search. So I guess it's a good thing they changed their name. Their Reverbnation profile says Progressive Metal/ Extreme. But they're definitely not prog. And Extreme is just a general term. I'd say they're closer to Melodeath than anything else. But apparently they're "...a bunch of serious musicians who don’t take themselves seriously". So, I'm sure that's explains everything clearly.

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.