Ten Extreme Metal Bands In India You Should Check Out

Extreme metal has always been on the fringe of the metal scene in India. Always overshadowed by the more modern bands playing Djent nu metal and metalcore.

In recent years however extreme metal has gotten very popular, bands like Gutslit, Godless, Moral Putrefaction and Plague throat have not only made India proud by representing extreme metal at big international metal festivals like Wacken open air and Obscene extreme but have also have won countless of fans, both abroad and in India.

Here the top ten extreme metal bands in India today.

1.Gutslit:

One of India’s most popular extreme metal bands, Gutslit play a mix of brutal death metal with a slightly modern touch.

For fans of: Benighted, Aborted, Cattle Decapitation

2.Godless:

Able to unite metalheads of all kinds, Godless has helped popularize a niche genre like old-school death metal and thrash.

For fans of: Morbid Angel, Immolation, Death

3.Moral Putrefaction:

With a solid, album level demo in their roster this band is making heads turn wherever they go.

For fans of: Cannibal corpse, Pestilence, Suffocation

4.Catatonic:

Featuring death metal legend Nangsan Lyngwa of Plague throat on vocals, these guys make some solid grindcore.

For fans of: Brutal truth, Assück, Pig Destroyer

5.Tetragrammacide:

Some of the harshest war metal to come out of Kolkata’s extreme underground metal scene, creating a brutal concoction of harsh noise and black metal.

For fans of: Revenge, Diocletian, Teitanblood

6.Konflicts:

Konflicts explore darker, avant-garde side of grindcore which is not heard in our country

For fans of: Discordance Axis, Takafumi Matsubara, Endon

7.Amorphia:

No nonsense blisteringly fast, brutal thrash metal from Kerala
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For fans of: Slayer, Kreator, Morbid Saint

8.Inner Sanctum:

Veterans of the scene, Inner Sanctum play some fierce mid-tempo death metal/thrash metal that is just as brutal as some of its faster brethren.

For fans of: Obituary, Power trip

9.Warmarshal:

Warmarshal play some solid old school death metal that the legends would be proud of.

For fans of: Bolt thrower, Demigod, Convulse

10. Nauseate:

Raw mince/goregrind from Bangalore grindcore veteran Charles Firman Rozario.

For fans of: Agathocles, Archagathus, Haggus

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