MUMBAI: Scribe, one of India's funniest and favourite metal bands, is out with their eagerly anticipated third album titled 'Hail Mogambo'. The 13-track album packs in all the features that fans have come to expect from Scribe – monstrous guitar riffs, elaborate vocals, pounding drums, eccentric music influences, funny song titles and kitschy Bollywood references.

Comprising Prashant Shah (guitars), Akshay Rajpurohit (guitars), Srinivas S (bass), Vishwesh Krishnamoorthy (vocals) and Viru (drums), Scribe have been surprising fans and critics alike with their take on metal since 2006. Their last album, 'Mark of Teja' was universally regarded as the best metal album of 2010. They are also the first Indian metal band to have been featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

'Hail Mogambo', which goes on sale on OKListen.com on September 26, was in the making for three years, during which the band went on to become one of the liveliest and most popular stage acts. Their shows include all-girl moshpits, pav bhaji stalls, beach balls, poetry recitals, inflatable pool crowd surfing, court-room dramatisations, skits and other fun-filled shenanigans.

'Hail Mogambo' continues the story that the band began in 'Mark of Teja'. In the bands' words, 'Hail Mogambo' “is a grand opus of evil rising to power and assuming total control of the world and its people."

The album – the title for which seems inspired from the villain of the 1987-released film 'Mr India' – is also the band's homage to Bollywood. “The album's topics, subjects and characters allude to the 1987 Shekhar Kapur-directed film Mr. India but also include many other characters and concepts from other films in the time period that made an equally lasting impression," says the band.

Characterised by the band's atypical musical choices, 'Hail Mogambo' is replete with eccentric snatches of music inspired by non-metal influences like hip-hop, groovy 80s synth sounds, finding an ideal partner in Vishwesh's attention-grabbing vocal delivery style.

The album has been mixed by Keshav Dhar of the djent-band Skyharbor fame and mastered by Swedish producer Jens Bogren, who has previously worked for international metal bands like Opeth, Soilwork and The Devin Townsend Project.

?Upcoming Gigs

October 15 - Pune

October 16 - Mumbai

November 9 - Bangalore

November 16 - Mumbai

More dates will be confirmed soon.