Hardcore metal band Scribe hopes to nail a hat-trick of success
Scribe n Photo Credit: Kunal Kakodkar
Having started their journey around 10 years back, the much-loved hardcore metal band Scribe has come a long way. After giving away their first album free of cost at their concerts, their second album, Mark of Teja, was declared the best metal album of 2010 at various award ceremonies. And now they are back with their much-anticipated third album titled, Hail Mogambo.
If you spotted a pattern there, you are not mistaken. Bassist Vaas Jindal elaborates, “We have a penchant for following Bollywood films which have always given the audience more memorable villains than heroes. Also, as a follow up to our sophomore album Mark Of Teja, we wanted to push the storyline forward by featuring an epic confrontation with the epitome of Bollywood villainy who’s the cult ‘Mogambo’. Not to forget, Mogambo’s nephew was crime-master Gogo.”
On their fascination with Bollywood villains as cornerstones of their albums, vocalist Vishwesh Krishna-moorthy adds, “Villainism is one of the most crucial parts of storytelling. Jaffar made Aladdin fun, Gabbar made Sholay memorable and to a large extent, we feel like megalomaniacs around each other. We all look at each other as evil scientists taking turns on an experiment. And the villains in our story are the heroes.”
The new album has a fresh sound replete with eccentric snatches of music inspired by non-metal influences like hip-hop and the groovy 80s’ synthesis sounds, thus finding an ideal partner in Vishwesh’s attention-grabbing vocal delivery style.
“For starters, most songs are played on Drop A tuning as opposed to our standard tuning, which gave us an entirely different soundscape to play with. It may seem like a minor change but it is a radical difference to the palette we could paint with. We’ve used synthesizers on this album on quite a few songs. We love the 80s/90s pop and it shows on this album,” says guitarist Prashant Shah.
Over the last ten years, the band has seen a massive change whether it comes to their career, the music that inspires them, the audiences, the industry or their priorities. Prashant adds, “It has been a crazy ride so far. When we started out, all we only wanted to do was create music that we ourselves wanted to hear and didn’t care if anyone else liked it or not. We’re the same at heart, but the main shift that we’ve noticed is that we actually have people around us who care about our music.”
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