Chepang

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Chepang
General information
origin United States
Genre (s) Grindcore
founding 2016
Current occupation
singing
 Dipesh "Mountain God" Hirachan
singing
 Sanket "Bhotey Gore" Lama
guitar
 Kshitiz "Nails" Moktan
Drums
 Surya "Himalayan Chituwa" Pun
Drums
 Gobinda "Hammer" Senchury

Chepang is an American grindcore band. The members of the band have a common cultural background: All members are immigrants from Nepal and do not have US citizenship. In addition to polyphonic singing, the quintet unusually uses two drummers.

history

Chepang was founded in February 2016 by Dipesh "Mountain God" Hirachan, Sanket "Bhotey Gore" Lama, Kshitiz "Nails" Moktan, Surya "Himalayan Chituwa" Pun and Gobinda "Hammer" Senchury. Members live in New York , Dallas and Portland and meet in New York for rehearsals and recordings. All five members are originally from Kathmandu , where they met and where Pun and Senchury played in the black metal band Antim Grahan , which released five albums between 2005 and 2012. The name of the band corresponds to that of a partially semi-nomadic ethnic group in central Nepal, which is associated with great poverty in Nepal.

In 2017 Chepang performed at the largest extreme metal festival in the USA, the Maryland Deathfest . In June 2018 the band played at the Earslaughter Festival in Montreal, Canada . This is followed by a European tour which, in addition to concerts in Germany, Austria and Hungary, also includes an appearance at the Obscene Extreme Festival in the Czech Republic.

Singer Hirachan and guitarist Moktan play in parallel with the New York progressive metal band Sangharsha, which has released three albums so far.

Style and reception

The US lifestyle magazine Vice describes Chepang's music as a combination of "manic riffs , polyphonic singing and sheer aggressiveness" on the one hand and an aesthetic that is deeply rooted in her home country on the other. It classifies the music of the album Dadhelo - A Tale Of Wildfire into an intersection of power violence , crust punk and grindcore, which occasionally shows hints of noise rock and is here and there enriched with melodies of traditional music. The Canadian music magazine Exclaim! describes the tracks on the debut album as "short volleys of 40 seconds maximum of sheer Grindcore chaos with an overwhelming amount of raw, visceral aggression". The magazine emphasized the high technical ability of the musicians. The Decibel magazine points out that Grindcore those as already radical and strange art form by the immigrant identity that erschafften him might even subversive. The US American National Public Radio assessed that the album Dadhelo shows that Chepang interprets the grindcore genre "not only with technical adeptness and surprisingly compact dynamics for such an unusual instrumentalization, but also with fearless carefree and devotion". The music portal Sputnikmusic writes about the debut EP Lathi Charge that the band “channeled as much uncomfortable political energy as possible into their work” and that the result was “electrifying”, entertaining, angry, but also accessible. The Subterranean blog defines Chepang's music as chaotic, technically adept Grindcore influenced by Crustcore and Powerviolence with groove elements.

The band themselves jokingly refer to their music as "immigrindcore", a trunk word made up of "immigrants" and "grindcore", and thus allude to their status as immigrants. According to singer Hirachan, the band plays grindcore because it represents “free, open aggression”, “raw emotion that goes hand in hand with the topic of class struggle”. Guitarist Moktan explained in an interview that the band members had no knowledge of the genre in advance, but instead wrote songs intuitively, which resulted in a kind of grindcore. The distribution of instruments with two singers, a guitarist and two drummers is unusual. The second drum kit has been used since the recordings for the album Dadhelo . The renunciation of a bass player unites Chepang with the grindcore bands Magrudergrind and Pig Destroyer . The titles of her songs are in transcribed Nepali . The texts, also held in Nepali, deal with political and social issues, including those related to Chepang's homeland, Nepal.

Discography

  • 2016: Lathi Charge ( EP , Nerve Altar)
  • 2017: Dadhelo - A Tale Of Wildfire (Nerve Altar)
  • 2018: Split EP with test (Cricket Cemetary)
  • 2020: Chatta (Nerve Altar)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vice.com: Get an Earful of Chepang's Hot-Blooded, Politically-Charged Nepalese Grindcore. Retrieved June 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ BenthamFoundation.org.au: The people we help. The Chepang people. Retrieved June 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Exclaim.ca: Chepang: Dadhelo - A Tale of Wildfire. Retrieved June 6, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b DecibelMagazine.com: Immigrather beef Core: Chepang on Nepal, Immigration and Having Two Drummers. Retrieved June 6, 2018 .
  5. ↑ NPR.org: Viking's Choice 2017: Chepang. Retrieved June 6, 2018 .
  6. ↑ SputnikMusic: Chepang: Lathi Charge. Retrieved June 6, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b Svbterranean.com: Exclusive Interview: Chepang. Retrieved June 6, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Vice.com: Nepalese Grindcore Insurgents Chepang are Back with a Vicious New Album. Retrieved June 6, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Clrvynt.com: It ''s Always a grind for Chepang Axeman to park in New York. Retrieved June 6, 2018 .