Girish and the Chronicles

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YEAR-WISE DEVELOPMENTS

2020: In world’s Top 15

Chandrima Banerjee, December 12, 2020: The Times of India

The introduction can throw readers off: “Five young long-hairs doing their absolute best Skid Row/Slaughter/Saigon Kick impersonations amongst architectural ruins somewhere in the Indian desert...No band from anywhere in the world has done this solid of a job recreating the magic of late ’80s/ early ’90s hair metal since, well, those bands first did it!”

‘MetalSucks’, a US-based music site with a dedicated metalhead following globally, has listed Indian band Girish and the Chronicles’ album ‘Road to Highway’ among its top 15 for the year. Now based in Bengaluru, vocalist Girish Pradhan told TOI: “They listed it at number 3, which is really cool.” Ahead of Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Ordinary Man’.

The album, Girish said, had been announced a year ago. “We suddenly realised it would be out during a pandemic. We wouldn’t be able to tour. But it got noticed.”

Girish and the Chronicles goes back to 2009. After a travel stint, as he started playing at clubs in Gangtok, his YouTube channel, Girish Pradhan, gathered a good following. So when he formed a band with his brother and friends, they knew they would retain his name. “The Chronicles came from this band I had formed in Nepal for seven days. We didn’t even perform. But I liked the name,” said Girish. “Chronicles of Narnia was famous around that time.” Then they had a problem — his solo channel had more followers than the band’s. “So one day, I thought, I’ll just change the name. I renamed my own channel as Girish and the Chronicles.”