Album number three from one of today’s most original metal bands. If you don’t know already, they combine traditional Indian music, with Nu Metal grooves, and Meshuggah style crunch. Lots of traditional language lyrics mixed with some English does not spoil the experience for me, in fact it adds to the impact . Ask yourself does that matter when listening to Rammstein?
There is tons of programming here, which usually is a big turn off for me when it’s used to artificially create music, but when it’s used as an accompaniment like this then I’m all for it. It’s the crushing down low riffs and pounding grooves that flick my button the most though, and the collaboration with Babymetal. Bekhauf is next level cool. They save the best till last as the title track Nu Delhi is a blast of old and new that works perfectly with both crunch and groove.
They are most certainly a breath of fresh air and if you have an open mind then give it a spin.
9/10 from The Grooveman.
