The Navi-Mumbai based group has released a new EP, five years after their debut. It features a new line-up, spans multiple genres and is crowdfunded.
In 2016, Ferry Tales was invited to open for 2Stroke Tour’s Mumbai show. The gig was headlined by alternative/progressive metallers, Goddess Gagged, who were reuniting after three years. This would be their last performance. “It was the biggest thing. Every band looked up to them. All the musicians from Mumbai were there,” Ferry Tales’ drummer, Nilay Singh, recalls. At that time, Ferry Tales was a young band, touring the country with their three-track EP, There She Goes. They had shared the stage with Blackstratblues and Tejas Menon before. But, playing for the electric crowd alongside Goddess Gagged that night, inspired them to make new music.
Except when they got into the jam room, there was tension. Differences over sound and genres were pulling the quartet apart. As a result, bassist Siddhant Vetekar quit and…