by NR INDRAN / INT

Mumbai : Talenthouse India, a creative crowd sourcing platform that provides opportunities to the world’s creative community to showcase their talent and win rewards and recognition by well-established names and celebrities in the field of media and entertainment organized a band hunt namely ‘Open for Metallica@F1Rocks’ in association with Enterprise Entertainment, Noise Associates and MTV India. Guillotine, a Delhi based rock band won the hunt and it will open the act for Metallica at the F1Rocks concert.

Speaking about the band hunt, Mr. Arun Mehra (CEO- Talenthouse India) said, “Talenthouse India is a platform that encourages individual from every walk of life to showcase their flair to the creative community. This band hunt provided a great opportunity for various rock bands across India to perform and possibly share the same stage as Metallica. It was a very difficult task to choose one band from over 250 band entries that had participated (either by uploading their video link on www.talenthouse.co.in or by mailing Talenthouse India their video entries). A Jury comprising of one member from Talenthouse India, one member from MTV India and one member from Noise Associates went through each and every entry to shortlist the best 25 entries. Our job further involved detailed R&D on every band looking into several factors like previous original work, rock style, right energy levels, etc to select the final 8 shortlisted bands who would then compete against each other for the winning position.”

Guillotine is very excited and looking forward to perform at the same stage as Metallica. Speaking about the win, Guillotine said, “Opening for Metallica was something we couldn’t even afford to dream about since we’re so young (one of us still goes to school). We highly doubt that the English language has a word to describe how we’re feeling right now. Sharing the stage with the biggest metal band in the world just sounds unreal. This life-changing opportunity has helped us decide that henceforth, we’ll be pursuing rock not only as a passion, but also as a profession. We’re thankful for platforms like Talenthouse India that encourage talent and motivate us to perform even better.”

Guillotine started in about 2006. It’s a 5 member band that plays progressive metal. They already have one album under their belt called ‘The Cynics’ which is a concept album revolving around a man’s realization of the hollowness of religious faith. Guillotine with its unique brand of progressive metal has steadily made its mark on the Indian and International metal scene. Progressive Death metal as they label their music blends the powerful guitar driven tones of death metal with various elements of jazz, funk, reggae, blues etc. Most compositions would see unique acoustic guitar passages and strong dynamic shifts with vocals ranging from growls to clean singing

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