India - Mumbai

Unfortunately, the hardcore punk scene in India doesn't exist (but pop punk does, uugh). I've started a band with a friend of mine (who belonged to one of india's biggest metal bands) and we're starting the hardcore punk scene here. India has always been about thrash and heavy metal and we're about to change that and it's kinda like territory that hasn't been explored before by indians so we're not sure if it's gonna work.

If you wanna hear one of our studio recorded songs, you can visit our new reverbnation page here.

India - Bangalore

I'm from Bangalore...you might've heard about the city. We have all sorts of bands, but sadly no punk/hardcore. Metal has a prominent presence..all the "non-conformist" rebels, when they do form a band, tend to go towards metal. :P

Couple of years ago, I'd tried hard to find fellow punk listeners in the country, heavy into social networking sites, blogs, et al...but I could only come across a few of them. That was then. But seeing the lack of punk bands, I assume the situation hasn't improved a lot.

But you know...rock music (in general) is to an average Indian what punk is to the average American/British guy. Our culture being conservative, only a small percentage of youth (urban, mind you) actually follow rock. The scene's slowly growing though. More people are getting into non-mainstream music...and a lot more albums are being put out. :)