PROFILE 2012.

ARTIST SUMMARY Undying: adj. 1.immortal. 2.unending. 3.that which cannot die. [existing in spiritual, form, dead but animate.] Inc: abvr. incorporate; v / incorporated; adj. 1.form into one body or whole. 2 intr. To become incorporated, form one corporation. 3.combine (ingredients) into one substance.

Undying Inc, a combination of two different words that form a common ideology. To create something that cannot be destroyed and which embodies an explosive mix of various influences and ingredients. A band known for making some overwhelming heavy music in today's metal scene! Combining a lethal blend of speed, technique, groove and extreme aggression, Undying Inc create a sound they can proudly call their own that defines the state of the world address!

The band has been around since 2004 and has been consistently building a formidable reputation due to their never-say-die attitude. Through genre leaping and line-up changes, success & controversy, rabid fans & haters, unprecedented success and countless pitfalls along the way, Undying Inc has seen the best and the worst of it, emerging stronger every time. Therefore, the relentless riffing intensity, sharp twists & breakdowns; rapid time signature changes and fluid gear shifting between polyrhythms make their music a lesson in monumental ferociousness. The result is crushing modern metal combat! Like adrenaline in the bloodstream, at once powerful, explosive and yet abstract. Undying Inc live is a wrecking ball, having honed their destructive skills from thrashing numerous small clubs to large venue festivals and always ready to obliterate the masses with an aural assault of pure and punishing heavy music.

Here is music that will make you want to spit into the face of life, burn everything you hate and chokehold the world you live in!

Genres: Metal / / / Experimental Metal / Progressive / Location: New / Line Up: Shashank Bhatnagar - Vocals, Biswarup Gupta - Guitars, Reuben R. Bhattacharya - Bass, Nishant Hagjer - Drums

PRESS BIOGRAPHY Revered by fans and bands alike, it's safe to say that there are only a few metal bands in India that believe in their music like Undying Inc do. Critically acclaimed and described as a heady cocktail of Thrash, Hardcore, Groove Metal, , Prog & just straight forward Brutal Death Metal. Undying Inc are an extreme modern metal act that believe in delivering an avant-garde combination of rapid fire riffs, massive breakdowns and technical prowess; which coupled with a percussive attack and a vocal assault from the deepest, darkest pits of hell leave you gasping for air, crushed under the suffocating tautness of overwhelming heavy music. Coming in low and fast Undying Inc do what they do best, punch you in the gut and beat you senseless.

Riding a wave of success since December 2010 with the release of their second , Aggressive World Dynasty, the band has undoubtedly surpassed the expectations set by the people not too many years ago. Undying Inc have not only returned full throttle with this album, but have brought the fury of Hades packaged into a dozen mind altering tracks. From the opening seconds of the menacing intro 'In Vacuo', the pulverizing 'Concept Error' and 'Aftermath', to the technical thrash of 'Alloy' and the title track, the polyrhythmic wizardry of 'Xenophobe' and dissonant beatdowns of 'Contagion' packaged with heavier versions of cult favorites 'Manimal', 'Evilution', 'Existence Failed V3', 'Breeding Gods' and the Metal Hammer - Planet Metal featured 'Membraneous'; Aggressive World Dynasty is now widely considered as the best metal album of the year in India by critics and peers alike. The album has gone on to win the coveted 'Critic's Choice - Metal Album Of The Year' at the Metal Awards 2011, besides getting the band the Best Metal Drummer & Vocalist Awards as well. The album also gained the #1 spot on Rock Street Journal's Top 10 Releases Of The Year 2011, and received accolades for Best Album Artwork and Single Of The Year for the track 'After Math.'

Not to let only their studio prowess do the talking, the band believes in the art of live experience as their primary touch point. Besides decimating numerous clubs and college fests across the country, the band has supported world renowned metal acts like Amon Amarth &Textures at Deccan Rock Festival 2009 with the cream of Indian Metal and a slot at the first ever outing of the prestigious NH7 Weekender festival in 2010. Within a span of four years Undying Inc have had three stints at India's cult rock festival the Great , opening for Norwegian metal legends Enslaved and Satyricon as well as other top modern metal acts such as Benea Reach, Freak Kitchen, Intronaut & Tesseract, topping it off by opening for their idols, the iconic Swedish band . The winter of 2011 also saw Undying Inc set out on their first ever overseas stint thorough a cultural exchange of Heavy Metal, sharing a double bill with Trondheim post-hardcore act Torch on a mini tour of and return triumphantly, having won over a completely new fan base. In the summer of 2012, Undying Inc return to the cold north again, playing alongside some of the most respected names in metal, at the holy grail of unholy extreme metal, the .

Only a brief look at the band's videos on YouTube, prove why Undying Inc's stage prowess has labeled the band as incendiary live performers with no equal. At the end of the day words can only say so much, to experience Undying Inc in its true form, simply either pick up their latest release and tear your house down, or wait for them to carpet bomb your city soon.

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS:

• One of the main support acts for Live In India at NH7 Bacardi Weekender 2012. • First International Metal Festival appearance at Norway's prestigious annual extreme metal outing, Inferno Metal Festival 2012. • Aggressive World Dynasty – 6 nominations at Jack Daniel’s Annual Rock Awards. • A Double Bill tour of Norway with Norwegian hardcore band Torch 2011. • Aggressive World Dynasty – Metal Album Of The Year (Critic’s Choice) Rolling Stone Metal Awards 2011. • Aggressive World Dynasty – Best Vocalist & Best Drummer. RollingStone Metal Awards. 2011. • Aggressive World Dynasty – Rated #1 on Top Metal 2011. Rock Street Journal. • Aggressive World Dynasty – Rated #1 on Top Album Art 2011. Rock Street Journal. • Aggressive World Dynasty – Rated #1 on Top Metal Albums 2010. Indianrockmp3.com • The Track ‘After-Math’ off Aggressive World Dynasty – Rated #2 on Top 10 Metal Tracks 2010. Indianrockmp3 • Aggressive World Dynasty – 3.5 Star album review rating. Rolling Stone. • Aggressive World Dynasty – 4 Star album review rating. Rock Street Journal. • One of the first Indian bands to have their music featured on legendary metal magazine Metal Hammer’s first ever International Metal Compilation, with the track ‘Membraneous’ featured on the groundbreaking volume 1 of Planet Metal. • The first metal band from India to be endorsed by Ibanez & Line 6 via Onstage Music Corp.

GIG HIGHLIGHTS: *This listing is in Reverse Order.

• Kingfisher Pubrockfest 2008 – New Delhi, & • The Pit / Lessons In Extreme Insanity – Club Gigs 2008 – New Delhi • Fuel Great Indian Rock Festival XII 2008 – New Delhi ( supporting act for Satyricon) • Royal Stag Great Indian Rock Festival XII 2008 – ( supporting act for Sahg) • Fuel Great Indian Rock Festival XIII 2009 - New Delhi ( supporting act for Benea Reach and Intronaut) • Metal Hammer Unconvention Music Showcase 2009 - New Delhi • Deccan Rock Festival 2009 - ( supporting act for Textures and AmonAmarth) • Kingfisher Pubrockfest 2010 - New Delhi. • Rolling Stone Metal Awards at Blue Frog 2010 - Mumbai. • Bacardi Nh7 Weekender Festival 2010 - Koregaon Park, Pune. • SIES Powerchords - Mumbai. • Fuel Great Indian Rock Festival XIII 2009 - New Delhi ( supporting act for Meshuggah and Tesseract) • Thundermarch Festival 2011 - NIT Silchar. • Heritage Minerva Festival - 2011 - Calcutta. • Headbangers Merch presents Onslaught at B69 2011- Mumbai. • Rebel County Extreme Bike Stunting & Metal Fest 2011 - Shillong. • 567 Metal Club with U.K metal band Cypher 16. 2011- New Delhi. • The Undying Torch tour with Norway metal band Torch at Klubb Fest 2011 - Roros / Norway. • The Undying Torch tour with Norway metal band Torch at Blaest 2011 - Trondheim/ Norway. • The Undying Torch tour with Norway metal band Torch at TC 2011 - New Delhi. • MTS Red Energy Independence Rock XXVI 2011 at Café - New Delhi. • Inferno Metal Festival 2012 - Day 1, John Dee Stage - Oslo / Norway. • Escape To Rock & Metal - Escape Festival at Zorba - 2012 - New Delhi. • Clonefest 2012 - Soundcheck Series- THE GUVMNT - Gurgaon • Emergence Fest - Battle Of The Bands at LEMP- Gurgaon • NH7 Bacardi Weekender 2012 - Black Rock Arena Stage - Buddh International Circuit, Noida. ( supporting act for Megadeth.)

QUOTES

Tomas Haake – Meshuggah. On Undying Inc - Xenophobe: "Complete madness! This song is like a rabid dog! A lot of twists and turns but still a great piece of music! Great technical skill through the whole band!"

On Yuvraj Sen Gupta (ex-drummer) - "Technical drumming with a ton of chops and great - work"

Graham “Pin” Pinney – Aliases, .

On Yuvraj Sen Gupta (ex-drummer) - "Great use of kick for rhythms, nice fills, could make more impact by not playing kick on every note during every heavy riff.. A real ass kicker though."

On Biswarup Gupta -"Like the use of different subdivisions and accents, a little more use of the register of the guitar would take this to the next level."

Thomas ”Drop” Betrisey – Sybreed. On Biswarup Gupta - "The most tight, clean and inspired playing. He has a lot of techniques, good right and left hands. The song is really powerful, the sound is good."

Ivar Bjørnson – Enslaved. On Biswarup Gupta - "Death Metal and Djent seem to dominate the Indian scene of today – this guitarist shows that he masters the roots of his genre while at the same time taking a dive into a variety of other influences."

On Undying Inc – Xenophobe: "For me this is the song with the clearest identity – which is the “make or break”-factor for me. It is of course important to be tight, have a good production and so on; which this band has – but it doesn’t help if there is no personality in the music. For me this is definitely the song with the clearest direction and strongest nerve."

Grutle Kjellson – Enslaved. On Shashank Bhatnagar - "This is more like it! Although his vocal style isn´t my cup of ' chai', I sense a feeling of realness and desperation in his voice. He´s got that little extra touch and originality that separates him from hundreds of vocalists in the same genre. Well done."

Deepti Unnikrishnan – Assistant Editor, Rolling Stone India. “…Aggressive World Dynasty is a well-crafted, mosh-pit igniting expression of rage, intent on decimating everything in its path, and in that it has no equal. A good album from a great band; but then we expected no less.”

Aditya Gopinathan - “Aggressive World Dynasty” is the result of what would happen if Messhugah, Pantera and Decapitated had a bastard baby who got married to a Strapping Young Lad.”

Madhav Ravindran - Headbangers India “…This is not an album you can get into at a first listen. After repeated listens, one can start making sense of what is behind all the chaos and aggression, there’s an evil beauty of sorts and therein lies the real magic behind the music. Each song is like a clamp on to your testicles, squeezing harder and harder until the end of the album when you pass out with perverse pleasure. A truly fantastic album...”

Rhythmn Pundits “Overall, the album is all-killer with a finishing comparable any day to an international release. It’s unbelievable how two of the best production talents of IndIa, Anupam Roy (Narsil, Grey) and Keshav Dhar () have managed to capture the Undying Inc sound so brilliantly. They get equal credit as the band for developing this benchmark album with a definitely unique, aggressive and vicious-spit- in-your-face- of feel, if you may call it one!!”

Metal Militia – Obvious Metal Is Obvious “Clocking in at 48.15, it is a relentless assault..grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let up for a second. These guys are truly pissed off, and you can feel the raw emotion behind the lyrics. There are no filler tracks on the album, each serve their purpose. The destruction of mankind and the uprising of Machines are recurring themes in the lyrics, and this truly is the soundtrack to the apocalypse.”

Jitesh Rajan - Indianrockmp3 “To me, Aggressive World Dynasty is a benchmark of sorts for metal albums in India. One of the most brutal & technical metal acts to come out of this country, the album is a headbanger's ball from start to finish & is a must for any metal fan”

Amit Saigal – Editor & Promoter. Rock Street Journal. “Undying Inc is a top notch Metal band from India that I believe has tremendous potential to take their game to the next level. I have seen them grow from their formative years and change the face of metal from this subcontinent.”

Andrew Jonathan Lu – Executive Editor. Rock Street Journal. “Their music is a violent, hate filled, shotgun blast to the world, bristling with fury”

Andrew Dubber – Music Researcher & Historian. UK “One of the best new Metal Bands on the planet right at this moment is Undying Inc from Delhi. Fact”

Steve Lawson – Solo Bassist Extraordinaire “Wow. Seriously great band - supremely heavy, scary, screamy, shouty extreme metal. Like Meshuggah, Cavalera Conspiracy and Pantera thrown into one band. Outstanding! Undying inc are possibly the best thing I've heard all year”