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BLINDING WHITE NOISE: ILLUSION & CHAOS is the debut full-length from SKYHARBOR, the brainchild of friendly neighbourhood Djentleman, Keshav Dhar. Formerly under the moniker of HYDRODJENT, SKYHARBOR features collaborative effort from several big-wigs in the music industry: Daniel Tompkins (ex-TESSERACT), Marty Friedman (ex-MEGADETH), Sunnieth Revankar (BHAYANAK MAUT and PROVIDENCE) and fellow Djentstar, Vishal J. Singh (AMOGH SYMPHONY). The album is a ten track record, clocking roughly at 50 minutes.

PARADIGM SHIFT, a Hindi Progressive Rock band based out of Mumbai, India with their debut album COALESCENCE promises to bring back the traditional Hindustani and Indian Classical/Carnatic music to fuse with Contemporary Progressive Rock. Produced by Vishal J. Singh of AMOGH SYMPHONY and FEATHERS OF JATINGA, COALESCENCE also features stellar contributions from some very prominent and gifted musicians in the Indian music scene.

LIMIT ZERO announced, a few months ago, that they were working on a second release, a 9 track album but soon after they posted on their Facebook wall saying that they parted ways with their vocalist. So what's been happening in the LIMIT ZERO campaign since then?

The second year into the new venue DYPSA convocation Unchained 2012 is back this 4th March 2012. Unchained is one of the very few gigs in Mumbai that continues to remain an open-air event. This year brings a massive line up to the stage with headliners BHAYANAK MAUT, DEVOID and ABRAXAS and opening acts WIRED ANXIETY and GRIMMORTAL.

SKYHARBOR have announced they will release their breathtaking double disc, debut album BLINDING WHITE NOISE: ILLUSION & CHAOS worldwide on 23rd April via BASICK RECORDS.

A successful relationship between great production and great musicianship is very rare. Even most of the top-league bands mess it up with being too bassy on the albums or transitions being weak. It is not an unknown fact that an album with a strong production value gets more appeal even if there are greater rival albums but with tacky production background. PROVIDENCE is a beaming example of how a bunch of talented musicians grab an equally competent producer/mixing engineer and churn out a winner. The reason I'm stressing on the production value is because the amount of Indian Metal/Rock I have been subjected too lately lacks badly in terms of production value. Bands do have to face financial hurdles when they are in their early stages and access to good studios in developing countries can be a problem, but it is certainly no excuse to let your musical talent be scorned at just because it is not good on the ear. The situation is definitely changing with more and more Indian bands reaching out to better studios (even international) and PROVIDENCE achieves their crisp sound from SKYHARBOR’s acclaimed musician and india’s first "Djentleman" – Keshav Dhar who has mixed/produced their EP.

Deathcore is a genre that everyone seems to look down on, there seems to be a dearth of this is “This is not real Metal, Deathcore sucks” comments on Youtube and other Social Networking websites, which I do find quite funny, to each his own I say. However that being said I am not really a huge fan of the genre myself as I think it gets boring after a while, but then I remember what my friend said; “good music is good music regardless of the genre”, and thus that is what is to be found here.

Indian Metal veterans DEMONIC RESURRECTION have posted pro quality footage of their performance from the "Independence Rock XXVI" festival held in Mumbai this year. The footage can be viewed on the DEMONIC RESURRECTION's Youtube Channel. 

A week ago Mumbai Metal band DEMONIC RESURRECTION announced an 'All-Star' show and invited entries from young upcoming bands for the opening slot. The gig is one of the pre-parties for Bacardi NH7 Weekender Festival and is being held on Saturday 5th November at the B69 Club in Mumbai. Over the course of the week the band revealed that the show would be opened by not one but two bands; VIZIA an upcoming Modern Metal band from Mumbai and ARIHANT, a Death Metal trio from Guwahati were selected from the demos received. The band also revealed the 'All-Star' list which features four bass players and nine singers as listed below.

India's latest music sensation GODDESS GAGGED have just released an audio teaser for their debut album RESURFACES that is due for release on 19th November at the NH7 Festival. The band recently shot for the MTV Roots as well and are putting the finishing touches on their Official Music Video.