New Delhi: India is known for its melody songs but apart from that, rock music is also becoming popular and is touching the hearts of people especially youth. The trend of Rock bands in India brought a new revolution in the field of music. However, it is an onerous task to form a band and making it victorious among people who are used to listen to filmy songs.
Though, fighting against all odds, the passionate rock music lovers have formed their own bands and have provided an incredible platform to hidden talents of India.
The trend which started in late 80’s has refused to die down until now. There are many existing brands which are providing autonomous varieties of music to all the listeners.
So, here we have listed five most popular Rock bands in India that have overwhelmed people with their unique talent.
1. Indian Ocean
It is the rock band since 1990 formed by Susmit Sen, Asheem Chakravarty, Rahul Ram and Amit Kilam in New Delhi. After the death of Asheem Chakravarty and departure of Sushmit Sen, now the present members are Rahul Ram, Amit Kilam, Tuheen Chakravorty and Himanshu Joshi. This band has the genre of jazz fusion and also experimented in traditional music with a touch of rock music including druming and electric guitar having numerous effects.
2. Parikrama
Parikrama is a rock band formed since 1991 in Delhi having the members Nitin Malik, Sonam Sherpa, Saurabh Choudhary, Subir Malik, Gaurav Balani and Srijan Mahajan. This band produces a fusion of Indian classical instruments with rocking intruments like drums and guitar.
3. Avial
Avial is a band from Kerala formed in 2003, known for its best Malayam lyrics and music. It is specialised in bringing rock music in Sufi malayam songs. Present members are Rex Vijayan, Tony John, Binny Isaac and Mithun Puthanveetil.
4. Euphoria
Euphoria was formed by Palash Sen in 1988 with his friends. It is one of the leading bands in Indi pop music genre. Present members are Palash Sen, Vinayak Gupta, Kamakshi Khanna, Kinshuk Sen, Bharat Raj Bahadur, Aditya Shankar Benia, Krutika Murlidharan, Vaishali Barua, Ashwani Verma, Prashant Trivedi, Rakesh Bhardwaj and Debajyoti Bhaduri.
5. Agnee
Agnee is an Indian rock band formed in Pune. It's first album was released in 2007 name 'Agnee'. Present members are Kannan Mohan, Kaustubh Dhavale, Hrishikesh Data, Among Jamir, Crystal Sequeira, Nikita Valerie F, Snigdha Ghosh, Pradeep Ratanjankar,Nitin Joshi, Harshavardhan Pathak and Mitit Adhikari. Basically, this band has its individual style of composing and performing Classic rock, Pop and Indian influences and Carnatic and Hindustani classical influences.
