They started of with one of my fav bands from the 90s, Green Day, boulevard of broken dreams, which I’m sure everyone has heard and then went on to play Nothing else matters by metallica, which has been an all time favourite song of metallica for most people and of course went on to play two songs of the band that I know any rock fan in Calicut or for that matter India always heard or would love to hear bands playing, Deep Purple, the songs Highway Star, which they played perfectly.

Jashi, the lead guitarist and Rohit on the keys really belted out their solos in full perfection and Perfect strangers by which time I expected the crowd going wild. Obviously I was right in front of the stage head banging and basically going nuts seeing these kids really letting it loose. I looked back and realized that it was just me and my two friends, the rest of the crowd were at least 20 feet away standing and watching as if it were a Jagjeet Singh show, Sachin, the lead vocalist, the front man, in every sense, did was doing an awesome job, been a long time since I saw some attitude from a vocalist from Kerala.

I came to know that he strained his voice box so much that just a few hours before the show, he lost his voice completely and had to be taken to hospital and got some injection and came directly to the venue, now that’s a real hardcore rocker wont you say?

The crowd involvement was really pathetic, apart from the claps at the end of each song. It was then that the band started playing songs like Hotel California, summer of 69, and sultans of swing that the crowd started moving in. The song they played next was a song that really hit me like a freight train, which never in my wildest dreams did I expect them to play which was Chopsuey by a band called System of a down, which was when I really felt the power of the band. This particular song kind of has all genres of rock in it, which is quite a challenge to play, Darvish, the drummer really let loose and thrashed his drums like nobody’s business and of course Athul, the most unassuming band member was upfront punishing his bass guitar.

They really meant business from then, by playing songs by Megadeth, G N R, Nirvana etc. Nice to see that rock is still very much alive and kicking in Calicut with young talent like Inferno. The one who is responsible for all this Harris, without whom nothing of this would have happened for all these years. Keep it happening and LONG LIVE ROCK IN CALICUT!