I'm Madhav, 23 from Chennai, India.

Mechanical engineer by day, bass guitarist by night and in between, you'll find me running my independant record label Road Crew Records and writing for Headbangers India, a website dedicated to Indian metal.

Started off listening to N'Sync and Backstreet Boys in the early 90s, then moved into Iron Maiden and Megadeth (never Metallica) and now, I'm into almost every possible genre, right from old school thrash to latin jazz and everything in between. Currently tripping on Casketgarden, Bilocate, Desultor and other smaller, more underground metal bands.

I've got a custom made Yamaha RBX-JM2. By custom made, I mean it looks, plays and sounds like the Yamaha RMX-JM2 but its been made by a luthier in India instead. 5 string too, not 6 string.

P.S. I love beer too.

what I have where an animal was

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The older one I have bought is Eld, a big lot of years ago, but then I jumped straight to Isa. Then I bought also Below the Lights and of course all the new ones after Isa, but before the previous ones I just had to buy Trinacria.

Trinacria is really the other thing I might be thinking about, I mean as a fourth sequel.

p.s. while you've posted, I've been after editing my post. saw it afterwards. WE ARE IN MOTION, actually sums up the feelings I struggled with in the opening.

collecting may be a whim or worse a sickness, but no one can take a stand on the overall spending that is going on. it becomes a problem when I turn only into a distributive mechanism, helping the money-flow, that all.. once I've got used to shopping, which may be one of the few ways to pay respect to myself, and then there come other artifacts to replace even if I stop listening music. I might have already stopped listening to the CDs I'm buying, it's only the moral element of that which happens in the store .. etc

I don't think I've done this before, but if I have, please excuse my dusty, cobwebbed memory.

I play the drums, currently in Virus and Lamented Souls, previously in Beyond Dawn and Bomberos and sometimes in Infernö and Two Trains. I also run a bedroom label called Duplicate Records, where I both release music of various kinds and distribute stuff.

I've been a music addict all my life, but my explorer instinct peaked during the 90s, when I was into basically anything.

Nowadays I'm old, lazy and not that adventurous, I guess also playing in bands for 20 years or so has affected the way I listen to music. I'm not so easily swooned, corrupted or impressed by stuff anymore. A little sad I admit.

I have a pretty schizophrenic music collection though, which I enjoy a bite of from time to time. Mostly I listen to stuff that I work on though, or new stuff that I either get via my mailorder or through people I know/work with.

Stuff I always come back to: Kiss, Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Bathory, Celtic Frost, Lee Hazlewood, Swans, Dead Can Dance and tons of other stuff. I'm very selective though, I seldom like a lot of stuff from one artist/band, it's usually 1-3 albums that I really like, or even just individual songs.

I like a lot of the more progressive and avantgarde sides of music when I am exposed to it but I rarely pick it up on my own initiative. Also, I don't like it when bands are weird or overly technical or out there just for the sake of it. It has to have some musical value that resonates with me, not just being made to ipress you know? King Crimson's Red is a fine example - it's progressive, technical and experimental, but never at the expense of the music. Same goes for Univers Zero which I adore. I've never had an original UZ album actually, just had their early stuff on cassette which I played till my ears bled back in the 90s. They are on the top of my to list of things to buy someday when I get an actual income.

Oh yeah, I'm unemployed. I used to have a regular job but it took up all my energy, so I rarely had any left for what matters the most to me, which is the music. So I quit and now I'm poor, but definitely happier.

Oh well, I guess that does it. Nice to be here, I hope to be able to contribute a little to the forum, but naturally time is of the essence.

Have a nice friday night y'all!

wellcome legend! It's nice to see you on this forum, I admire your bands man!!!
(this is the last of asskissing I'll do, but I just had to do it hehe)

Thanks:)

Einz! Welcome to the freak show, if I hadn't given you the welcome before!
I repeat that it's good to have you over here, I like reading musicians who I admire just talking as the rest of normal people, that they also are, of course.

I'm sorry to know that you are unemployed. You already know from some mailorder email that Virus owns my money, so feel free to take your part!!!

I'm lazy too, but old? You don't seem too old to me, by the few last promotional photos of Virus. I guess asking your age is not very polite as we are virtually unknown to each other, so you can just participate in the topic we have on the 'funfair' section if you wish.

Have fun over here and I hope you can find a less stressing job if it grants you an even happier living (what can be happier than to play in Virus?)

Hehe, indeed.

hej på dej du!

so Bomberos, eh? "lick the cum off my boot" was a great song. are you still active in any way?

Not really, we haven't played together in ages plus I kinda quit. We'll probably do a reunion tour in 20 years, we have like twelve minutes of material haha! Imagine a huge world tour playing twelve minute sets, that would rule.

That would be interesting. I guess the fans would be excited and dissapointed at the same time. Then there would be ticket price problem.

Now that I think about it, actually doing it would kind of like Andy Kaufman humor

Anyway, WELCOME! I hope you'll enjoy the forum as much as we do. I think everybody here enjoys Virus (me included), so I foresee some possible failed refraining from asskissing

@Madhav: Welcome to you too!