The final night of sarrang 09 on sunday at the open-air auditorium of iit madras was a day that was etched in the memories of metalheads across chennai as one of the most apirited and high profile rock event witnessed in recent days.The venue,which played host to Grammy nominated Swedish death metal band opeth was literally filled to the capacity with fans of the band who had come from places as far as singapore and malasyia to witness the metal titans perform for the first time in India.in fact,fans had started gathering up to enter the auditorium from as early as 4 pm in the afternoon and they formed serpentine queues that stretched for several hundred metres from the entrance.in tune,with the nature of such shows,a majority of the audience were clad in back tees with an insignia of their favourite bands displayed proudly on their chests.
The five member band comprising Mikael Akerfeldt(vocal),lead and rhythm guitar,Martin mendez(bas),per wiberg(keyboards),martin Axenrot(drums) belted out an array of songs from their popular albums like morningrise,still life,damnation and watershed.inf act ,even the Indian fans demonic resurrection and motherjnae,which opened for opeth on the night,were of the opinion that a new threshold had been set with the arrival of the Scandinavian group in the country.
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