Bloodywood are India's answer to System of a Down. Here's their 2022 album Rakshak;
https://yewtu.be/playlist?list=PL8o2-ydwQGcifIWmd9XokpxEx7JKJ1Wnu
Music Mini-Review: Bloodywood [India's System of a Down / Linkin Park, 2022 album Rakshak)
@strypey
QUICK Review, I'll need to redraft it...
In order of this Playlist / 10 tracks:
https://yewtu.be/playlist?list=PL8o2-ydwQGcifIWmd9XokpxEx7JKJ1Wnu
These are some parts that jumped out
1/ End part great
2/ Before 2nd minute +flute
3/ need to re-listen but nothing jumped out
4/ Machi fits more rather than jumping a bit sections
good start typical but like it
but break the camels back :) not sure about that
6
7 Dana-Dan not going to die repeated + 8 ok + ok suits
8 Yaad
9/ BSDK.exe worst maybe Voice not really deep voice, especially on it's own at 1.50 and not as a kinda not great as a kind of Rap, nice Church Chant mixed in
10/ (Favourite) Chakh Le - has best balance of sound and lyrics:
List of good points
Classic Rock sound / Rock Instrumentals
Bollywood style Indian lyrics
Parts like System / Linkin Park
System of a Down, CREATIVE BITS WITH STANDARD
Good lyrics "Let me show you what will happen if you try"
SUMMARY
Altogether good but needs more from themselves or too standard (sort of each band needs a bit of uniqueness without expecting them to be as good as all the rest but uniqueness don't remember)
Also some mis-timings / jumping sections worse than System of a Down (where you get used to it and works so maybe this too but System's whole formula and lead singer is high level and understand music to high degree so you see all tracks and can expect it with Serge's humour).
Will listen again soon but even my broken review I'll put up...
@freeschool
> break the camels back :) not sure about that
Ae, that one tripped my brain up too. Wondered if it was maybe referencing a Hindi idiom I'm not familiar with. Then I realised they're talking about being the *straw* in the familiar English idiom about breaking the camel's back ; )
> Parts like System / Linkin Park
Fair call. Stylistically there's a lot of LP-style nu metal elements. But Bloodywood are more angry and political, rather than whiney and emo. So more like System.
@strypey@mast@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz Yeah maybe they just went for it as lyrics as it's half good in some way of breaking something. An external person could have easily spot it or seen it as too risky.
I also realised they ARE managed / helped by same for Linkin Park guy(s) :) And I thought many more times it was more similar to LP...
Here's the interview they mention it in that I can recommend for some wise word in there and definitely seem politically committed...
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=ussiAu7ikQE
I'll update this post which part of this video I liked but all good at low res (since it's just for audio mostly)
Other notes:
Not sure it's more angry if the growling (or attempted growling) was one of the main judges of that. And perhaps LP having more softer sides makes it seem more but need to listen again.
It wasn't exactly what came across first time more than 'attempting' (depth way too low like if I was to try it!)
and not even understandable in the part I could hear most System and LP achieve in the yes soft, whiney and angry spectrums... I just couldn't hear it clearly like some genres where you have to wonder what they are talking about or look up lyrics and then you like them even more :) I generally;y go for what I can understand as words. (funny to say that but really some genre eh! ^^)
The part where they mentioned Linkin Park manager (and working with Bloodywood now) is at 40.29.
Link to exact part:
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=ussiAu7ikQE&t=40m29s
Rob McDermott was with Linkin Park for 10 years (11) when they were starting out
