When I Got Downloaded (The Download Festival Experience) by Deepak Chennakkadan For people who don’t know what Download Festival is, refer to: http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/2011/index.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Festival When you are standing in between millions of people with their eyes on the magnificently huge stage where their favorite Metal/Rock bands are performing, you know how it’s like to be [...]
A glimpse into the events, releases which happened in the Indian metal scene in 2010
It starts with a single repudiation of a single man, in a single fellowship of human souls (access denied). The ire(exploding anger) that hence takes over….gives a slit to all that he thinks is needed. What it touched first were the closest ones(lost in you). But hurting them is the easiest of them all. Cause [...]
The liking for anyone’s favorite musician can be verbally expressed or best done through a written script. But, it becomes almost impossible to do so when you lose a hero like none other than Dimebag Darrell, in the freakiest of incidents. I hope these words of mine pay a tribute to one of the youngest [...]
Darkest greetings to all heathen readers who are laying eyeballs upon these pages! Here is Natthaphon Kamonsin, the editor of an abyss ground metal publication called Slava fanzine hailing from Thailand or in other words Siam, a pretty exquisite small country situated in Southeast Asia, where the underground scene seems not familiar to the metal [...]
In the late 1960′s, the members of the metal juggernaut that was to be were all street kids in the grimy industrial city called Birmingham. Tony Iommi, guitarist and band mainstay, was forming a band with drummer Bill Ward and bassist / lyricist Terry ‘Geezer’ Butler. John Michael ‘Ozzy’ Osbourne was suggested for the vocalist [...]