Inferner post 2 songs online and open for Mayhem in Dubai

Rawalpindi based metal band Inferner have caused quite the storm, since the members split off from Atrum Animus (if you lived in Islamabad/Rawalpindi, you knew who they were). They’ve put up 2 songs on their SoundCloud page that they also played live with their previous band, as well as opening for Black Metal legends Mayhem in Dubai. The Iron Markhor’s Hassan Umer caught up with Inferner’s Mubeen Mujeeb and conducted a mini-interview with him.

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How does it feel to be opening for a legendary and pioneering metal band like Mayhem?
It was a childhood dream come true for us on a personal level for all of us. The true Mayhem are pioneers of the metal genre and fathers of black Norwegian metal. It was unbelievable experience to share a stage so big. To see them set their sound before the show and get to see a private show on the sound check was more than we ever dreamed of. Plus we have no words to describe the feeling of representing Pakistani metal to the world and to Mayhem.

What can we expect from Inferner in the future?
Hell!! \m/

And to put the matter to rest, what was the main reason behind the name change from Atrum Animus to Inferner?
Its not a name change its a different band. The lineup has new and so has the mentality and ideology. That was the past and Inferner is current. Atrum Animus has nothing to do with Inferner other than the members of Inferner were a part of that band and since then have moved on!

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On the music front, their new originals display a dark, brooding style of metal that takes influence from black metal as well as other genres. The production is done by Isb/Pindi metal scene mainstay Jonathan Jones, who has produced everyone from Depletion to Venom Vault in the past.

Click this link to check out Inferner’s music
Click this link to get to their Faceboook page

Moshpit 2

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed but this is a revolution we are dealing with here. The Lahore Mosh Crew have been working real hard to bring you some metal, the culmination of which is in the form of Moshpit 2. The show is scheduled to happen somewhere around Jinnah Hospital in Lahore on January 8th, 2011. The following bands are expected to perform: Odyssey, Takatak, Downfall Humanity, Ruin, Project Berklee, Black Warrant, Shapataz, Hammer of Dawn, Foreskin, Cream Frieche. No more of my pretentious ass. Just fucking be there.

For further detail:

The Green Scene Carnival


What initially appeared like another generic Lahore *cough* ‘underground’ concert seems to have potential as a good psuedo-metal gig, considering that most of the bands performing are metal. Bands playing include Takatak, Dementia, Project Berklee, V8, Eleventh Commandment, ACMS, Preaching Hypocrites, Dionysus and Foreskin. Has some rock bands and some solo performers but if you’re in Lahore I’d reccomend you drop by at the Green Scene carnival because it’s not every day 7 metal bands get to play at a ‘normal’ gig here in Lahore.  Anyway, the gig is on the 25th and you can get all the details at the event page on Facebook.

Access event page on FB.