Select tracks from the multi-award winning sophomore album "Mark Of Teja"

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'WOAH!’ - That is exactly what you'll exclaim when you let these guys take over your modestly priced stereo system. No pretense here. No nice boys in flannel shirts. It's a plain and simple 'Wham, Bam, kaisa laga?' 5 incredibly talented individuals with a single motive - to lambast the living hell out of your brain with their flaming cocktail of Bollywood catchphrases, blatantly bloody blastbeats, sarcastic jibes and riffs like crispy golden fries. 

In Mumbai, metal moves a lot and Scribe has always been the first mover. Punk hardcore tinged with gray and more vivid colors, the dudes, heavy as piled rocks, are not done moving mountains; besides, they have just got busy with it. They have come a long way since the release of their first EP, Have Hard. Will Core in 2006: the Scribe's touch and its emotion were already present, but the sound has become larger and enriched over the years. The proof is done with Confect., the first album of the band released in 2008, where all the genres meet and kill each other, where heavy meets light in a melodious and appealing whole, setting Scribe as one of the standards of today's Indian metal scene. With its bulky and fuzzy furious rhythms, a frenzied oddball as a singer and some well-polished riffs, 

They claim to be hardcore, and no one is complaining at their live shows that can only be understood by watching them unleash their insanity. They’ve headlined numerous stages and played at every major festival in India including ‘Independence Rock’, NH7 Weekender, The Great Indian Rock and more. Their shows have included everything from kids scampering on stage, stage-diving, improv rapping+beatboxing from members of the audience, crowd surfing, stand up comedy, on-stage skits and total and utter merriment; Scribe is the band that the Indian metal freak has embraced with nonchalant glee for bringing the fun back into extreme music.

Scribe's discography could not be described with one simple adjective or one single label. They have 2 albums to their credit, 'Confect' and 'Mark of Teja', both of which will go down as seminal masterpieces in the Indian metal phenomena. On the eve of the release of its second album, Mark of Teja, Scribe becomes the first Indian band to perform for the Inferno Festival in Norway, paving the way for more Indian bands to be chosen the following year; they finally released the album in India alongside US Metalcore heavyweights ‘Lamb of God’ in Bangalore. And with the release of Mark of Teja; Scribe gave India its most creative band yet, with its not so-hardcore sound, standing at a busy cross-road of grunge, rock, country, pop and ambient music... everything floating above an unexpected sense of humour. Mark of Teja sees them experiment a bit more, challenge a lot more. Song titles include 'I Love You, Pav Bhaji', 'Dum hai to aage aa!', 'Judge Bread', Kamla’s back, '1234 Dracula' and Street Archana Vs Vice Varsha among others. Shortly after the release of the album, they unleased a music video for the song ‘Dum hai toh aage aah’ that featured B-Boys from the slum areas of Mumbai busting moves in a dance-off at an abandoned fort. The slum-dwelling b-boys also performed on stage with the band at the music video launch. The video had regular airplay on VH1 and MTV propelling the band further.

They are radical and talented enough to stand on their own name, and do a beautifully post-apocalyptic job at that. No wonder they swept both the Jack Daniels Rock Awards and the ‘Rolling Stone Metal Awards’ bagging ‘Band of the year’, ‘Album of the year’, ‘Song of the year’, ‘Vocalist of the year’ and ‘Bassist of the year’ twice over! 

These guys are goofy, unpretentious, hairy, and love to make fun of contemporary pop culture and the stereotypes they create. They make post hardcore music, but they are not intimidating. Quite simply, the funnest metal band in India

And now, Scribe has the biggest feather yet to stick into their hat -  India’s first band to bag an MTV Europe Music Award nomination for Best Artist (Worldwide Act) at the MTV EMA 2011 in Belfast, Ireland!


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