Mood Indigo '14 chooses metal over rock

IIT-Bombay's iconic festival 'Mood Indigo' will be breaking tradition this year. While its famous 'Livewire' night has always showcased rock bands, this time, the theme will be metal.

The college, which starting inviting registrations from 17 October, received 3,000 entries within four days, which is a thousand more as compare to last year, when it got 2,000 entries over a week.

Mood Indigo's 'Livewire' event will have a performance by Epic, a Dutch symphonic metal band, on December 28.

The band Epic amalgamates the characteristics of metal music like heavy drums, guitars with symphonic instruments and choirs. The band has its unique style featuring female vocals and male growls, performed by Simone Simons (lead vocals) and Mark Jansen (rhythm guitar, vocals) respectively. The other four members Coen Janssen (synthesizer, piano), Ariën van Weesenbeek (drums, backing vocals), Isaac Delahaye (lead guitar, backing vocals) and Rob van der Loo (bass) compose music for lyrics written by Simons and Jansen. Apart from its own music, the band has also composed background scores for a lot of Hollywood movies, the most popular of them being 'Pirates of The Caribbean' and 'Lord of the Rings'.

"They have a huge fan base in India and they wanted to perform here for a long time. We have received almost 3,000 registrations within the first 4 days," said Gunjan Gupta, the media head of the festival.