I guess i dont have to talk much about BIDROHA . They are Nepalese thrash Metal Giants. I had a short talk with Saurav their fronman . Here you go their page
Before we begin we will to
congratulate the entire BIDROHA crew for the 4th anniversary, which was in March
Thanks
man!!
2010 until now how has this
journey of 4 years been?
Well, journey
has been exciting with lots of ups and down. We have launched 3 singles and a recently
a debut album!! Doing local gigs, outside valley gigs and also international
tours in India and Hong Kong with main headliner!! Band got such fame in
such short period is a good thing that makes us believe that struggling and hard
work pays off really!!
Personally i have been watching
BIDROHA from a way lot of time and personally know you Saurav back from the
early days of our childhood. It really feels good to see that many kids
nowadays take you and BIDROHA as a source of inspiration and even saw some kids
start a band taking BIDROHA as a source of inspiration.
Ah,
dream from childhood and making dream of being what I want to be made me today.
Still dream continues. Really, People take me and Bidroha as source of
inspiration? Man, that’s honorable. Respect to those people from my heart who
made us as their inspiration. That’s really... No words!!!
Being bit personal dai during our
school days you never let us knew you played bass in ARACHNIDS. It was in a gig
probably by PMA then i came to know about it. 2004 until now how has your
personal journey been?
I
joined Arachnids right after my 11 board as a replaced bassist and that was
probably on 2063 B.S (2006 A.D) I guess!! Well I never wanted to tell that
"hey, I am bassist of Arachnids" instead I wanted people know by
themselves. I don’t want myself to be called Stardom. People should acknowledge
me for what I do, not for what I go and tell them about what I do. Well
personal journey is awesome and experienced. I am very thankful to the Arachnids
family who gave me a chance to come in Underground scene in Nepal
After Arachnids was disband in
mid 2008 or so you switch from bass to leads as well as genre from Death to
thrash. Dai can tell us how BIDROHA was formed.
First
of all, I was am and will be guitarist. You know in school, we had lots of
guitarist and if in forming a band, there would be more than one good guitarist
then the other one was left to be Bassist so I used to play bass as my level
for guitar was still not enough. So, I knew how to play bass too. And my friend
has his brother Eros on Arachnids and where Arachnids use to jam up, I used to
go with my friend there and practice with my friends. There, Eros dai had saw
me playing guitar and luckily he needed a replacement for the bassist. So he
asked me to play bass and I was happy to be the part of the band and I played.
Well my dream is being a guitarist, so after Arachnids was inactive due to
members who flew to aboard, I got my chance to form a band I used to dream of.
As Zantu was my friend and together we played in Kafan band, I ask him to play
on the band I was about to form. As he agreed to play, in search of drummer was
complete with the help of the Social media Facebook where once I saw his photo
playing drums in my Friend's photo. There we commented and we added each other
and ask him to join the band. He was not so confident about his playing to
reach my expectation and ask me to take his audition. We called him for
audition but we didn’t take his audition and whatever his level was, I saw his
playing and passion to play, so I encouraged him to be the part of the band. He
joined with low confident but built his level of confident and playing quickly
after some practice. And my friend Saugat was the bassist whom we appointed but
due to his studies he left and Bishal joined us who was Zantu’s friend from his
office. Bishal had been playing in Rock band. Firstly, Bidroha was named
Kayakairan suggested by my Facebook friend Priyanka Rai which means revolution
but as suggested by my Female friend Sambridhi Deoja from school as Birudhha ,
I modified the name and changed it to Bidroha because many people had
difficulty in pronouncing it properly. This way band was formed!!
Yeah dai i remember the days of
Galaxy infact our school gave us some platform through some annual stuffs. Many
guys from our school are the respected names in the scene today. By the way dai
your hand was fractured how is your hand now.
Ya that’s
true. Esp our batch was full of music lovers and many of them are engaged with
music presently too. I can see my many school friends like Rohit K.C, Khusbu
Rai, Riwaj Bhattarai, Anuj Maskey, Sanjan K.C etc who were engaged in the
underground scene in Nepal
Yeah
dai but from our batch 1 of them (Ricky) is a sound engineer based in U.S. Recently,a few months back you guys toured Hong kong can you tell us
Ahh. Well, talking
about the experience, it was awesome probably our one of the most memorable
tour ever. We had two shows, 26 and 28 January, 1st show which was in Backstage
was good though we were drunk and were carried away with it but the show was
good. 2nd gig was in Yak and Yeti Restaurant totally out of scene as it was
only jamming things with non metal heads more, we played 2 rock songs and
jammed through it. We are thankful to those Audience who came to support us
taking out there time from their busy schedule. And one thing was sure, even
though many of them were not metal heads; they really supported us from their
hearts. Yeah and not to forget, I went to hiking with the NRNHK who brought us
in Hong Kong after my band mates left for Nepal, I was overwhelmed with their
support by buying our T-shirts and Cds.
You even gave us surprise of this
gig though haha. Well coming to the album SUFFER TILL DEATH the entire album
was a killer i was even there couple of time during the recording session
witnessing the recording and as well as hearing the mastered track must say
awesome production by you guys as well as DAVIN. 7 months of hard work sure did
paid out..
Ya,
actually the gig were schedule to September but our album was not mastered yet
so it was postponed to January and we missed many gigs that time due to the
album launch. You can see in the album our whole hard work. Got awesome
response from every listener who grabbed the album. Hard work paid off. We learnt
experienced, changed some riffs etc and thanks to Davin who made this album
more valuable by giving his full effort to this Album through recording.
Yep i know because i too have
seen it during the production process. By the way i really like the lyrics of
Bidroha it reflects what’s really happening esp SAMAJ KO KAIDI. It’s my favorite
from the album. Well coming to the band Bishal left the band as he moved to Australia
Bidroha
is not only name, it's the word retaliation and you can see through our lyrics
and music about what the band is really about and especially what I really
feel. So, mostly I wrote the lyrics and Samaj ko kaidi is one of them. I still
remember when I wrote Samaj ko Kaidi. It may reflect some people's life but I
wrote it for the Third person so called Chakka/Hijada from us who were bounded
in this fucking society. It was Tihar that time and I was changing channel in
TV and caught my eyes on "Pahichan (Identity)" TV serial from NTV.
There, third people who was celebrating Deusi Vailo with their own kinds of
family in specific place. And in between they were interviewed and everyone had
that suffering, pain, frustration about how there were bounded in the lines of
society and even kicked out from it and form their families and friends. They
were asking us the normal ones to accept them as the part of the society. They
are also human. They have their life. We should accept them in every society;
they are no harm to us. It’s the society which is leading them to live filthy
life here. The feelings from their words they delivered made me imagine if I
was one of them, and I had Goosebumps. Fuck it really sucks man. I really felt
the injustice to them and took a shit of paper and pen, then started to write
how will I feel if I was one of them and how they had and have been feeling
through out their life. So I wrote it whatever i could write and deliver
through it, Samaj ko Kaidi is all dedicated to those people out there.
Band is inactive right now but doesn’t
mean that band is no more. Yes, we will be back with new members. Akash had
helped us in our tour in Hong Kong as Amar had
his examination so he couldnt make it. Akash is one badass drummer. Really he
amazed us how quickly he leveled his drumming with us. Hats off to him.
Yeah for sure he is. Saurav how
did your journey in metal music started. I mean who influenced you?
Metal
journey all started from my school life. Thanks to my friends who exchanged cds
of Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Sepultura, Pantera. With that cds I listened to
them and was mostly influenced by band Megadeth and Sepultura. Their music and
lyrics really meant what was going on.
Yeah. By the way saurav what are
you listening nowadays?
I
listen according to my mood. I don't have specific genre to listen. All depends
on my mood and my playlist which is mixture of Thrash, Blues, Rock.
I almost forgot to ask about the
split of Bidroha with the Argentine thrash Insignia . Can you say us something
about it. In our past talk with Julio he had talked about it. How was the respond?
We will like to know your view about it?
I met
Julio in Fb group and we exchanged and talked about our both music. He gave us
the proposal to do split with them as they were Heavy metal and we were Thrash.
As members from both bands liked each other music and was impressed with one
another. Thus, we accepted the proposal and split happened. Split Argentina Argentina Split
We have worked with them on our
previous project and they sure are a good band. Saurav how was Bidroha’s
experience with the 2 Death Metal giants NERVECELL and DECAPITATED during
NEPFEST?
Frankly
speaking, we had to show what we were because we were really screwed up being
guest band in Nepfest band competition. We were criticized about how we screwed
and believe me, shit happens with pressure of Hungry Dogs Barking for the Bones
so called Cops our Ultimate Show Stopper coming to stop the show before the
given time by them and with playing with only less than 40% of sound given by
them, things go wrong. Nepfest September with giants Nervecell and Decapitated,
we really shut the ones who were fucking busy with pulling legs previously. We
had a good fucking smile to those shit of people after that gig. Unfortunately
we didn’t get chance to meet Nervecell and Decapitated but I had witnessed them
and they were fucking amazing. I liked Nervecell more than Decapitated.
Well for sure unfortunately i
missed that gig. So Saurav we are almost at the end. Any message to the fans,
along with that lastly as a space for you to ask if we SNRMB crew have
forgotten to ask?
First
of all, thanks to SNRMB for having me on the board. Keep doing the good shit.
Thanks to all the viewer, fans, supporters, well wisher, family, friends who
supported us from the beginning. Keep us supporting on what we do. Support doesn’t
mean what we do, you should like us. You can give us your views and comment,
criticize both in negative and positive part so that we could improve more in
future. Thanks to all the people who bought our cds and tshirt. It really meant
allot to us. We have given our best of everything to this album. The people who
haven’t still heard our new album "SUFFER TILL DEATH", you can listen
to bidroha.bandcamp.com. For more updates, you can check us at www.facebook.com/bidroha
as well as you can stream us at www.bidroha.bandcamp.com
Keep Thrashing Thrashers!!! Hope you all will SUFFER TILL DEATH.
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Thank
you Saurav..
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