Updated on: 26 July, 2021 11:32 AM IST |
Best Metal Artist Nominees, Radio City Freedom Awards
Vizag-based Against Evil has taken the city to the global map with their chartbuster, War Hero. A recipient of critical acclaim from across the world, the band has also received a stellar review by UKs prestigious rock and metal magazine, All About the Rock.
Rectified Spirits jams draw influences from the likes of Lamb of God and Pantera which is evident in their single, Empire. Fans of European power metal and those with a love for dynamic twisting rhythms will relate to the band.
Veteran blackened death metal specialists Demonic Resurrection deliver this power-packed, heavy groove from their 4th album, The Demon King.
Shillong-based Aberrants enthralling End Game is grungy and raw, infusing the needful energy through the able vocals of vocalist Ryngkat Jyrwa.
Kerala-based Amorphias USP is their own unique brand of old school thrash metal. After their stellar debut with Master of Death, The Lieber Code sets the bar higher for them.
Moving away from groove metal and sticking to heavy metal, Wired Anxietys music boasts of the influence drawn from Russian death metallers Katalepsy. Evident in their single, Heavily Sedated, the Mumbai-based death metallers are equating 24/7 work culture with a story about a new breed of slaves.
The Bengaluru death/thrash metal band offers a meditative start with Guardian that eventually morphs into a death metal rendition. Inner Sanctum also holds the prestige of being placed first at the Mumbai rock festival Independence Rock.
Influenced by everyone, from local metal acts to international metal giants, Bhayanak Maut created a signature metal sound for itself. With Now, Creation. Forever, Destruction, the band has become a whole new phenomenon.
Mumbai horror metal band Albatross In the Lair of Dr. Hex starts smoothly and progresses into melodic guitars. The song is worthy of a few repeats, with the use of a wide influence of metal fused with great story-telling.
