‘If I wear a mask, it’s for hiding my scars. Nothing surrounds me, guess I’m a star’, these lines from the opening track ‘The Star’ set the caliginous tone of the 6-track hard rock/metal EP ‘Humanity Shoemanity‘. The EP, which is thematically concurrent to the times we live in, has been released by Blind Sun Drift, a rock/metal duo based out of Bengaluru, made up of Roktim Bhattacharjya, responsible for the guitars on the project, and Saptarshi Das who handles the vocals, bass and production.
While India has given space for many groundbreaking rock and metal acts to emerge, most of them have multiple members so as to give rise to a cohesive unit and full sound. The fact that a 2-piece band like BSD can come up with such a full-sounding debut EP with a sprawling progressive rock-metal composition, is in itself an exemplary achievement. The EP follows a thematic approach about the exasperation towards the state of affairs that surround mankind in the modern…