Mudita by The Bodhi Project.

So I hadn’t heard a lot of variety in music in a long time. It has been mostly metal; thrash, death, folk death fusion, some Avial, some really good singers (people who can nail Avial at a whole different level. People I consider gods in the current Indian metal scene. The balance of vocals and instruments so subtle, that I, one  personally partial to acts where vocals thrash your fucking eardrums at same levels or just a bit higher than the thrash of instruments. I love to hear the rush of vocals.

I experienced it at Metallica Bangalore. Stand next to the speakers; alone in 27000 people. Right over the barricades. Smoke fills the stage. Ecstasy of Gold starts off in the background.

 And they walk in.

Hetfield thrashing away to glory and kingdom come and starts growling, ‘Heeeey, heeey’. Sheer fucking madness. And then remain at the frontlines of a 27,000 horde which came for this. If you don’t mind me saying, is ‘Badass’.

So when I say the balance, I think I know my shit. Is why I think good music being as personal as g-spot/clitoris to people, is worth putting out into the world.

I think this is a beautiful piece.

http://thebodhiproject.bandcamp.com/track/mudita

That is some good stuff. I have had a drought of good electronic music in the same past year. This has been a welcome change. And has been playing on a roll for the past 12 hours.

And that’s that. The cat’s out of the bag.


P.S. Ennio Morricone (the guy is a "knight").

MMOOAAAR METAALLL THAN YOUR FROCKKKKING ASS CAN TAKE!!!

When I ended up on this post, it piqued my interest. 

Not because it was just another Metal band making a video. I had been following Munz on social media for sometime. 

I end up at this beaut of a piece.

What starts at 3:42 reminded me of exactly what Chris Cornell did with Billie Jean. 

Fuckin' Goose Bumps dude!
And then I ended up on his youtube page.


I wanted to be there for this shoot. So, with due permissions from Ms. Pillai, I got on the bus to Thaliparamba. Overslept 10 kms., caught another bus around. Walked to Ezham Mile. Wondering why most of the houses were sporting Jail-style grills. 

 Waiting for Jeevan, cracking macho-31-years-old-facing-mid-life-crisis jokes.
Jeevan, yer' a lifesaver dude!!
Moar' Powarr!! \m/

We walk down to Che Guevara road. The odds are not lost on me!
It ends in a paddy field.

Mark this place please. This is history.

The next 2 days were going to be the unexpected moments of life turning into memories for a lifetime.
Chaos, shot its video for 'All Against All'. 

I was there motherfuckers!
My name's in the credits.
FWAAACKK YOU!!

ZE FUCKIN' BUTCHER!!!
I just hope I don't turn up as part of bloopers.

Rolling around in that slush wearing a jugaad-langot. I don't think those mud-bath spas would let you do that.

Here's Teaser 1 and 2.
Feel the fuckin' goosebumps?

Now if the teasers do that, imagine what the final product would be!
EPIC does not define it.

This is the coming of age for Indian Metal. This is CHAOS - All Against All!


In the meantime, some fandom:
This happened.

 Here's the evolution of the posters:

And there's jack johnson playing in the background.
With this beaut in there.

Guess the thing about a sudden spurt of friends from the metal scene.

Thank you everyone for the "Best way to kick in 2017"! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!"


If you would consider this a poster.

Demonstealer!!! and Wartooth!!! I feel like an Uruk already!

I was there. 
- Your friendly neighborhood Sou|Reap3r

nullified

if not by finding his self.

coiling onto you as you enter

the throngs of passion.

as the vast universe works its way..

and I am enthralled.

vision.

you heave,
you sink as earth opens.
existence reasons itself.

you ride the nine horses of time.
the viciousness. for now there is one.
everything melts.

Guilt

Guilt:

The most disturbing, one of the most powerful feelings humanity connects to.
All encompassing. All enveloping.

The moment it hits you, its like being carried off by a strong wave at sea. Especially, when you don't know to swim.
You've been swept off your feet, enveloped in the chaos. A grave. No way to crawl out of this one.
You see the light up there, streaming through the water, but do not know how to make for it.
Clutching at thin straws of reasoning, desperately thinking you might stay afloat holding onto them.

But, you can't...

it gnaws at you. Eats you. Engulfs you, Consumes you. You feel out of breath, reach out gasping for air where none is to be found. It's a watery grave, remember?
And then, you lose. That last bit of hope you were so desperately clutching onto.
You let go.

Somewhere, while drowning, it hits you. Something much more powerful than that first wave which triggered this descent.
You did it out of sheer selfishness.
Greed, maybe. Maybe not.
Selfishness nonetheless.