The modern indie music landscape has seen a steady surge in the quantity and quality, of bands and singer-songwriters, over the years, tapping into a vast variety of genres, ever-expanding the fanbase. Amidst the surge for branching out on the genre tree and bringing newer and exciting projects to the table, Mumbai-based prog rock trio Midhaven decided to dive into the expanse of the prog rock genre and created an exquisite blend with traditional Indian strains to present a 7-track concept album, “Of the Lotus & The Thunderbolt”. This comes after a 7-year gap since their last full-length album release.
Midhaven has described this album as their homage to the ruler of time, Shiva, aka Mahakal, as they try to explore the expansive and layered concept of time itself. The album is set-up in a unique way so as to present the tracks as chapters of a book exploring an individual soul’s journey to realization. Although the core premise revolves around the cyclical nature of…