Bloodywood

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Bloodywood
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General information
origin New Delhi , India
Genre (s) Folk metal
founding 2016
Current occupation
Karan Katijar
Jayant Bhadula
Raoul Kerr
Arthak Pahwa
Roshan Roy
Vishes Singh

Bloodywood is an Indian metal band from New Delhi . Due to the integration of traditional Indian instruments in their sound, the band's genre is often referred to as "Indian Folk" or "Punjabi Metal". Bloodywood are committed to various social projects and animal welfare.

history

The metalhead Karan Katiyar originally had the idea of ​​creating a YouTube channel on which he covered well-known Bollywood songs in metal style. At first there was no suitable singer until Katiyar met Jayant Bhadula at a concert, who had worked as a talent scout up to now. Katiyar quit his lawyer position in 2016 and founded Bloodywood together with Bhadula, initially as a two-man band. 2017 coverte Bloody Wood the song Heavy from Linkin Park , which the attention of some leading metal websites like Loudwire and Metal Hammer excited. As a result, Bloodywood published more covers and the cover album Anti-Pop Vol. 1 on their Bandcamp page in 2017 .

On May 1, 2018 Bloodywood released the single Ari, Ari , in collaboration with rapper Raoul Kerr , which is based on the Panjabi folk song Baarsi Barsi . Katiyar met Kerr while working on a lyric video and initially supported Bloodywood independently with the option to become a permanent member. Ari, Ari received a lot of positive feedback from the fans, Katiyar Karan and Bhadula decided to write more of their own metal songs, which should, however, be influenced by Indian music. Bloodywood wanted to get involved socially on a large scale and a partnership with the website "HopeTherapie" was established. For this purpose Bloodywood released the song Jee Veerey , which is dedicated to the fight against depression and mental illness. In January 2019, the song Endurant followed , which has the topic of bullying and this is also made clear in the video.

In 2019 the band played as part of their European tour a. a. at the Wacken Open Air and the Taman Festival in Russia .

Discography

Albums

  • 2017: Anti-Pop Vol. 1 (in-house production, cover album)

Singles

  • 2018: Ari ari
  • 2018: Jee Veerey
  • 2019: Endurant
  • 2019: Machi Bhasad (Expect a Riot)
  • 2020: Yaad

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wacken 2019 - Schedule of the bands Article of the Augsburger Allgemeine. Retrieved July 21, 2020. (English)
  2. ↑ 53 new bands for the eastern holidays article on wacken.com. Retrieved July 21, 2020. (English)
  3. ↑ Bloodywood announce debut europe tour Article by Anurag Tagat from April 27, 2019 for Rolling Stone India. Retrieved July 21, 2020. (English)