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One of the North-Eastern band that I would love to hear, is AGNOSTIC. Formed in the late 2009, a five piece Death Metal act, came out with their recent release MORBID EMBRACEMENT. I haven’t heard much by them, though now, I think I have become a regular listener to them. A very no-nonsense Death Metal band, from Guwahati, Assam. I had a chance to talk with the manager of the band, Anish Bhattacharya, who gave me a clear motive and insight of the band. They have been mainly influenced by DEICIDE, VADER and CANNIBAL CORPSE. And they have won various competitions in Assam and also, played in Hornbill National Rock Contest (2011). Recently they would be playing in a large scale Underground Metal fest in Bangalore, Undergrind, alongside Singapore grind masters, WORMROT. Like all other bands, they wish to play in Wacken Open Air someday.

The most brutal, sick, purely underground and promising Death Metal/ Grindcore/ Goregrind festival in India is back!

Singaporean Grindcore trio WORMROT were arrested in the city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on the night of New Year's Eve, following a successful performance at the Rumah Api venue with ASILENT.

Long-standing British Indie Record Label EARACHE RECORDS has always been known for breaking the trend, perhaps none more-so than with their free album series.

Singapore Grindcore trio WORMROT have completed a mini-tour of Malaysia, following a mammoth six-week trek in the United States.

Yesterday evening as I was walking down New Friends Colony, I saw that the sign board for The Mezz a pub in that area and a regular venue for Metal gigs was missing ,I asked the waiter who was standing outside Daawat Khaana (the restaurant opposite to the mezz which was in collaboration) what happened, to which he replied that it has closed, I enquired till when, to which he said forever. On this hearing this I was shocked, as now one of the premier joints for metal and the place which had pretty much introduced me to the scene was now over.

When Grindcore first started it was seen as a much more extreme form of Hardcore Punk, which was loud intense and in your face. Recently though, the genre has seen a lot of experimentation, the Progressive Mathcore/Metalcore fusion of FUCK THE FACTS, the electronic textures of THE LOCUST, the somewhat cleaner tone of ROTTEN SOUND and of course Goregrind and Pornogrind with their Brutal Death Metal tendencies. This experimentation took away some of the genres simple direct approach and made it more complex. WORMROT take the genre back to its roots, back to when it all began.

NEW NOISE ATTACK, a new low price compilation album featuring tracks from some of the hottest new names in Metal, is out now.