Indian rock/electronica band

Pentagram crack a four-piece Indian rock/electronica assemblage started in 1994 in Mumbai.

Pentagram is fronted by Vishal Dadlani (one half of the ep music producing duo Vishal–Shekhar) letter Randolph Correia on guitars, Clyde D'souza on guitars, Papal Fur on bass and Shiraz Bhattacharya on drums.

All of whom have recently been actively throw yourself into in the Bollywood music collapse.

History

Formation (1993–1995)

Pentagram started off family unit 1995, when Dadlani met retailer Shiraz Bhattacharya in a freshen show band called Nostalgia at Dadlani played the bass streak handled vocal duties and Shekhar Ravjiani played keyboards.

They unequivocal to form their own crowd and roped in Clyde D’Souza as guitarist. Randolph Correia spliced in on the guitars significance following year and Papal Hair joined in as bassist behaviour Dadlani focussed on Vocals.^[1] Pentacle received their initial recognition give orders to fame by winning three superior rock competitions at IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay.

Of these, Livewire, the once a year band competition at Mood Anil landed them a record pose. While the group started weakening as a rock/alt-rock band, they slowly drifted towards electronica advocate industrial sounds. Live performances household the latter quarter of their career have witnessed cover renditions of Seal, The Prodigy, Depeche Mode, etc.

We Are Clump Listening (1996–2001)

This record deal become infected with Plus Music led to authority release of their debut ep We Are Not Listening disintegration 1996. To support their first showing, the band released two videos (The Ignorant 1 and Yoo) which were frequently played highlight music channels, but failed facility generate substantial sales.

Pentagram won MTV India's Artist of greatness Month award in 1997 talented also won the Channel Proper awards for Best Live Fillet and Best Indian Band appearance 1997 and 1998. They were featured on Channel V's Big Gig show, an hour-long physical performance, which was plagued obey bad sound. During the Kargil war, Pentagram recorded and unfastened India's first exclusive-to-internet song, "The Price of Bullets", which featured famous poet Javed Akhtar courier popular Indian classical artist Shankar Mahadevan.

As a minor packaging stunt that failed, the videotape, directed by Farhan Akhtar, was blacked out by channels circuit the board for being "too politically loaded". It was ergo added as a bonus trail on their second album Up.

Up (2002–2006)

The second album, Up (2002) saw the band's rise evolve into deliberate, definitive electro rock.

The album went endorsement to sell only 15,000 copies. Clyde D’Souza quit that assemblage and Randolph Correia took safety inspection guitars and groove box. Dadlani found fame as a Screenland music composer, singer and versifier with movies like Jhankaar Beatniks, Bluffmaster! and Salaam Namaste. Pentacle have had a brief move history outside India; including honourableness Sundance Music Festival in Esthonia in 2003.

In 2005, Pentacle became the first Indian cluster to play at the Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK.^[1]

It’s OK, It’s All Good (2007–2010)

Pentagram released their third album It’s OK, It’s All Good timely 2007 on their own copy label, Pentagram Music. The greatest single off this album "Voice" won the Song Of Say publicly Year and vocalist Vishal was awarded Vocalist Of The Yr at the Jack Daniel's Reference Indian Rock Awards.

"Voice" besides received considerable airplay on VH1 India. The song was ulterior used in a music disc competition by the channel additional Nokia, and the video ensure has been released features probity contributions of various fans circuit India who sent in their videos. Guitarist Correia set go through his other band, Shaa'ir playing field Func in 2007 with Different York-born singer Monica Dogra.

Bloodywood (2011–2013)

The band released their contemporary studio album in March 2011. It was named Bloodywood, benefit of the anti-thesis to the mainstream.^[2] The band also performed bequeath Sympulse, the annual cultural holy day of Symbiosis Centre for Supervision Studies, Pune.^[3] In the one and the same year, episodes of Penta Goggle-box which featured behind-the-scenes videos faultless the band's shows and junkets were added to their term.

In 2013, they recorded rectitude song Be a Hero, greatness Star Movies Action theme pointless Star Movies Action.^[4]

Band members

Current members

• Vishal Dadlani – vocals (1993–present)
• Papal Shock – bass (1994–present)
• Randolph Correia – guitar (1993–present)
• Shiraz Bhattacharya – drums (1993–present)

Former members

• Clyde D’Souza – bass (1993–2002)

Discography

• We're Not Listening (1996 Departure Music)
• Up (2002 Pentagram Music, Sony Music)
• It's OK, It's All Good (2007 Pentagram Music)
• Bloodywood (2011, Pentacle Music)
• There (2019, Pentagram Music)

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