Fest for Indie lovers and metal heads

BENGALURU: The 10th edition of Unscene Metal & Indie/Alt will be hosted on the theme “Music and the Season of Giving” at The Humming Tree this month. Unscene will be investing `30 for every ticket sold on this edition in beneficiaries of Rang De, an organisation that has been working to alleviate poverty through sustainable livelihood initiatives. Here’s a look at the upcoming performances

October 12
Genre: Metal
Eccentric Pendulum
Bengaluru’s Eccentric Pendulum has won rave reviews for its live performances as well as its recorded work. This award-winning progressive metal band has toured Europe twice playing at festivals such as Wacken Open Air and Portugal’s SWR Festival. It has played along with Opeth, Meshuggah, Kreator, Amon Amarth among others. This Unscene performance will coincide with the digital release of the band’s new EP.

Rishabh Seen
Rishabh Seen’s adept melding of Indian classical with Metal music using his sitar has seen him quickly rise to being a global phenomenon at a young age. His work has won effusive praise from Steve Wilson, Tosin Abasi, Ustad Shahid Parvez, Guthrie Govan and Bryan Beller.

Haiku-like Imagination
This is a 5 piece post-hardcore/math rock band from Bengaluru. The band’s music is a beautiful cohesion of dynamic polyrhythmic drum sections, melodic bass lines, twin guitar harmonies, robust screams combined with melancholic clean vocals and glitchy, dissonant breakdowns. Quite simple, eh?

October 13
Genre: Indie/Alt
 
Thakara
Alternative rock with a touch of electro and folk, beautiful Malayalam lyrics, and James Thakara’s unique, goosebumps inducing singing combined with consummate performance make Thakara a very special band and a treat to watch and listen to. The release of Podi Penne and Puttu Pattu got them nation-wide attention.

Oorka
This is a quartet from Chennai. They play Tamil rock with socially-conscious lyrics. They give powerful live performances, that they claim will blow your socks off!

Iram
Iram takes influences from Sufi music, post-rock and minimalism and incorporates lush atmospheres, melancholic sounds, dreamy, ethereal textures and strong conceptual Urdu/Hindi lyrics into its music. This Bengaluru-based band made a very strong debut with its full-length album, “Azal” at the end of 2016.