Four years ago, I thought that the best 'English music' produced appeared on TV. How naive… When I was given the startling revelation that there are hundreds of thousands of totally amazing bands, so obscure that nobody in the world have heard, who produce such random, scintillating and beautiful music, I vouched to hate mainstream music with all my might!

This was not all that bad a decision, since I got exposed to a lot of amazing music, Porcupine Tree being one of them. Opeth another. And tons and tons of post-rock bands. Even though I tried a lot to…

Sun 25 Jan – Opeth @ Saarang 2009

I had been waiting for Opeth for the whole of December and January. And when they finally came to Chennai, they sure did NOT disappoint. In this review I want to talk about the set list more than anything else, because that was the most surprising part of the concert.

I had a lot of expectations when it came to what they might open with. I had predictedblackwater park, but they didn't even play that song. Instead they started off with heir apparent, which wasn't really surprising since it…

Well, Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape is my absolute, by a million years, favorite song of all time. I am going to rant about some things that I have ranted, on a smaller scale, in a million other places. And its all this bloody under-rated song.

First up, the best(worst) part of it is that not many people know about this song. In a way, I feel sad that a song this good doesn't get the recognition that it deserves. And I am glad that it will never ever reach mainstream (Yeah, I am narrow-minded on this aspect).

Next up, porcupine tree…

I feel that Thrash Metal is just an excuse to act cool. Its like, "You don't listen to Thrash? How could you possibly 'understand' metal?" The thing I hate the most is that it is the outward image that metal projects onto people who don't listen to metal music. So when I tell people that I listen to doom metal, which is actually very slow paced and filled with long haunting guitar riffs, people misunderstand it as "He is a metal head, listening to growling vocals at 180 BPM."

Before I was into metal, that's what I had also thought.…