Seven Best Indian Metal Bands

The band has been around since 2004 and has been consistently building a formidable reputation due to their never-say-die attitude. Through genre leaping and line-up changes, success controversy, rabid fans haters, unprecedented success and countless pitfalls along the way, Undying Inc has seen the best and the worst of it, emerging stronger every time.

Scribe is a Post-Hardcore band from Mumbai, been active since 2005. The band has built up a reputation for itself as one of the most technically proficient bands on the Indian Metal scene.

Primitiv is a Stone-Age Metal band from Mumbai, formed in 2013. The sound of the band is a vile blend of heavy, doom and death metal. It is an amalgamation of the varied collective influences of all the members.

Formed in late 1998, Kryptos has strived to create original, melodic metal, which combines the aesthetics of 80s thrash and pure melodic metal. Influenced by the likes of Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden along with heavy hitters like Coroner, Kreator, Candlemass, Dark Tranquillity and Nevermore, Kryptos manage to channel these influences into a sound that is all their own.

Bhayanak Maut paved the way for the New Wave of Indian Metal. Hailing from Mumbai, the metal capital of India, the band has created a signature metal sound for itself.

Since 2007, Inner Sanctum has been evolving from an underground project band into one of Indias premiere metal outfits and one of Asias constant parameters in the thrash and death metal genre.

Demonic Resurrection is a 5 piece metal band from Mumbai that blends the genres of Death, Black and Power Metal a genre that they call Demonic Metal. The band has been around for almost a decade and even with numerous line-up changes has released 2 full length albums. They are currently one of the biggest metal bands in India and are an explosive live act.

Metal is not an easily explorable music genre in India, but these seven bands manage to redefine the perception. Take a look at these seven bands whove managed to create a revolution in the Indian Metal scene.