‘States of Chaos’ by Hyderabad-based metal band Godless Tops Thrash Metal Chart
It is not always that one visits the dark but charming holidays of extreme music. The vaults here contain some of the most interesting pieces of songwriting ever written, and explore lyrical themes that are the exact opposite of the typical love-and-heartbreak affair. Here, the bizarre intrigues of war, politics, and the horrors to come are described. All this, in the background of a sonic tidal wave. And Godless, an extreme metal band with roots in Hyderabad, performs this well.
‘States of Chaos’ is the metal quartet’s third record that was released last month. Surrounded by these very vaults, the nine-song full-length album, according to vocalist Causal LS, belongs to the macabre and, as the song tells Netherworld, the tech-dystopian wasteland. “The lyrics mostly explore themes based on psychological terror, and the way humans reveal the panic precipitated by the macabre,” he says.
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Soon after its release, ‘States of Chaos’ climbed to #1 on the thrash metal charts, and #2 on the death metal charts on Bandcamp, a music portal where listeners can support the band by buying their music or machines directly. can. “We never thought this would happen. I was on the Bandcamp page and we saw that we made it to the top of the death and thrash metal charts. For a band from Hyderabad, being on those charts meant a lot,” Says Godless founding member and bassist Syed Abbas Razvi.
a post-tour high
Godless, featuring Abbas, Kaushal, drummer Vishnu Reddy and guitarist Moises, recently returned from a tour with performances in six cities – Guwahati, Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad and Mumbai. Another India tour planned next year
But the pandemic has taken its toll on the ‘metal scene’. With no record label to support them, there has been a greater demand for independent artists in the post-COVID world. Such a band needs to be more flexible, self-propelled and faster.
“The entertainment industry is the first to close and the last to open during the pandemic. To put things in context, death metal is a distinct genre. So it took a while to come back. While our first album Centuries of Decadence was released through a record label, the second album Swarm and the latest State of Chaos were released independently,” says founding member and bassist Syed Abbas Razvi. For more than a DIY. It is like a 24×7 job. We have to work harder. But in our case, we have a certain aesthetic and we have complete creative control.”
It was in 2018 that the band played at the world’s biggest metal festival, Wacken Open Air in Germany. But far from being satisfied, the Godless say that the expectations have already increased, and the task is to exceed these expectations.
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