A metallic reverberation

The night was all about head banging, music and fun. Metal Mania feat. Third Sovereign and Plague Throat shook everyone’s head off with their music and beats. The concert was held at Hard Rock Cafe recently.

Third Sovereign band remains true to its single-minded resolve, which is making pure and honest music. The bands consist of 4 youngsters. The band perceives its lyrical interpretation through mortality, nuclear warfare, politics and sins committed, which reflects back on our lives and for which, the curse of life will always be upon us until mortality.

Plague Throat band is basically from Shillong, and the band consists of 3 youngsters. They have proved time and again that Shillong’s underground metal scene could never be taken lightly. Being an instant hit among fanatics after release of their debut EP, ‘An Exordium to Contagion’, the elements of doom, which embodies their lyrical contents, have now taken them to the next level. Plague Throat has just been declared the winner of Wacken Metal Battle (India).

Both the bands have performed their own compositions, which boosted the crowed with energy. People loved their performances and went mad over it. “Hour of Darkness”, “The Pretentions” and “The Deceived” was performed by Plague Throat. On the other hand, Third Sovereign played “Everlasting Burn”, “Sarcophagi”, “Destined to Suffer” and “Suicidal Corpse”.

Regarding the inception of Plague Throat, vocalist/guitarist Nangsan lyngwa shared, “The band was formed after a breakup with their former melodic death metal band named ‘Against’, and it was until time that the band was established as a three-piece death metal band, and we call ourselves ‘Plague Throat’.

On whether things are better than before in terms of sound and band dynamics, drummer Reuben from Third Sovereign said, “Yeah, it’s always been kind of stringing along here and there, during the whole journey actually. Sometimes, we kind of get to play a big stage and sometimes we play small stages.

Our music is more brutal now and the sound also is really good, especially working with engineers whom I know. I don’t even decide my own drum sound; it’s the main guy at the desk that does that, and he’s doing a great job!” The drummer further went onto share that the music scene these days is not up to the mark since it is not possible to play a pub gig anymore, even in Shillong.