Bangalore:
Brutal, insane, heavy, melodic, loud, energising, powerful and talented, these are few words to describe a local band ‘Desat’. In order to give a platform and encourage young artists and musicians, Avaroha organised a gig for the metal heads and music lovers to promote local bands in the city. It was a truly head bangers paradise on Sunday at Italia, when Desat played their hearts out and kept the crowd wanting for more.
The band played over 12 songs among which they had few heavy covers from bands like Lamb of God, Children of Bodom and Cradle of Filth, and with their original compositions they brought the roof down.
The band’s own compositions have lyrics based on humanitarianism and love. The band proved to be so good that, even Santa Clause who came to distribute sweets ended up head banging with few others from the gathering.
There is a perception that metal is just noise or drug addicts playing the so-called music. But, this band tells a different story. Their metal is unlike any other metal bands in our city. Apart from playing heavy riffs and double bass beats, the band also has flautist, who is a major at Carnatic classical. It’s a perfect balance of heavy distortion, soft melodies and to add the magical touch, the band also has a keyboardist.
The band Desat is a seven-piece band, which was formed two years back. They have played a number of shows around the city and spread the message of metal and power to the crowd.
The band was formed in an unusual way as well. Victory who had a jam room used to rent it out for bands to practice, that’s when he met Sunil and Sri Kiran.
They soon started to jam for fun, this led to introducing new member in the band, and before they set of for their first performance, they had seven people in the band contributing their talents in creating good music.
Victory, one of the founding members of the band says, “We formed this band with an idea to free the world from all the civic and political issues. We all want a change in this world, we feel that, we can achieve that through our music and that is what we are doing.”
The band has one more element that isn’t found in so many bands.
They have an element of experiential metal in their music, along with heavy vocals, they also have soft vocals which is sung by two different people.
Avinash says, “Victory plays the lead guitar and sings as well, but he sings in a softer tone. I growl in the band. This makes our genre experimental progressive metal.”
Even if one doesn’t like metal, seeing the band having fun on stage will automatically put a smile on your face, that is if your not heading banging to their music.
The band wouldn’t be complete if it wasn’t for the keyboardist. Even though the drummer and the guitarists do a good job, the keyboardist adds a special touch the their music with leads and rhythm and vocals just takes it all out.
Victory says, “I think our secret element is, we record all our jamming sessions, we just get a rough sketch about how our song should sound like and we start working on it. While we are jamming we come up across, few notes which turn out to be brilliant. With the recordings, we also correct our mistakes and work on our timing.”
He adds, “Be there, be metal. Support local band in the city, not all of us can be like Justin Bieber, for us metal is just more than music, it is our doorway to happiness.”
source: http://www.ibnlive.in.com / South> Southern News> Bangalore / by Jaikishan Janardhan / The New Indian Express / March 28th, 2012