Broken
hymen is the one and only Nepali Blackened Death Metal Band. With the band
member Ustav Shrestha,, Aditya Sakhya, Shaqquille Gurung and Subodh Niraula.
Broken
Hymen was started somewhere around the June of 2012. Basically I (Utsav Shrestha), Shaquille
Gurung who plays bass and our guitarist Aditya Shakya formed this band. We
started off as a band but we didn’t have a drummer and a band without drums
isn’t a band. So, we waited for a long time until my cousin introduced us to
his friend Subodh Niraula and that's the start of it. We didn’t know anyone
from inside this emerging scene. Little did we even hope that we'd ever play on
a stage, and then we found out that there was this band competition so we
decided to participate to just show people that we could play; we finished 6th
out of 26 other bands so that is when people started noticing us. But before we
played the competition we played one of the sickest gigs we've ever played. It
was the Brutal Lunch Box Vol.1 and then we would be members of the Extreme
Underground Metal Society Of Nepal. 
Broken
Hymen means Broken Hymen there is nothing to it. The name came up out of
nowhere everyone liked it so we stuck to it.
Broken
Hymen's sound has always been a bit different than the other bands from the
scene; we incorporate a lot of grooves, melodies and a little bit of black
metallic sound to our Death Metal. Then we started off writing more songs, we
recorded a demo. We also had the chance of opening a gig for the first ever
death metal band of Nepal and one of our biggest influences
"UgraKarma" alongside with Binaash and Soul Annihilations from USA.
We opened the gig. And it’s not as glorious as it seems to play gigs in Nepal
cause people don't show up at time and the opening band has to play to an
almost empty room. We started playing and the number of people started
increasing and at the end we got a "once more" shouting audience and
we played, with people going wild and head banging and a small number of people
were sitting on the floor playing cards, which makes me laugh every time I
think about it.
Then
just when we decided to record an album and launch it, our guitarist Aditya
Shakya had the worst possible accident happen to him. A hit and run incident,
as a car hit his motorcycle, he flew off and hit a big chunk of concrete which
fractured his spine. The fracture was so severe that the doctors were unwilling
to operate. After almost 3 weeks of him lying on his broken bones he underwent
the surgery and he survived, he has lost his ability to walk as he's been
paralyzed from below his waist.
After
several months in hospital and a whole lot of encouragement he decided to
continue with the band. We Co-Headlined Brutal Lunch Box Vol.2 with him playing
on a wheel chair; Since then we have recorded a few songs for an EP album and
he has left for China for another surgery. We are planning to release the CD in
June and we'll see what we can do.
Our
achievement as a band is minimal but we are awful proud of it. We finished off
6th among 26 bands in Nepfest 3, we got to play alongside the legendary
UgraKarma and the one I’m most proud of is playing a gig with Aditya 6 months
after his accident.
We've
played with a lot of bands but the most favorite gig has to be Brutal Lunch Box
Vol.2 playing along with Narsamhaar, Dying Out Flame, Aakrosh and Nude Terror.
I guess the best achievement that we ever have was Playing alongside local
legends UgraKarma.
As
a band we've got a lot of influences both from our country and internationally.
Bands like Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Death, Belphegor, Behemoth are to
name a few. Nepali bands like UgraKarma and Binaash have been highly
influential to us. We have a lot of influences that led us to create this kind
of music; the biggest influences to the band have to be Slayer, Cannibal Corpse
and Behemoth. That is one of the reasons our music is thrash and dark. And
about the lyrics I write them for the band, cause other than shouting my lungs
out that is the only thing I get to do. And for making the lyrics I just don't
stick with one concept, I read a lot of things and whatever makes me go
"this shit is fucking awesome!" I use it in my lyrics, but mostly the
themes revolve around satanic-gore, historic events, religion and war. Talking
about the experience it’s same with everyone, when you're appreciated by the
crowd and by your peer, you'll know you've done something kick ass. Well we've
never experienced bad things because we are that fucking good, haha.
I always believed that metal should never be
appreciated by society, because if it happens it would simply lose its
importance. Metal should be there only the people who can find themselves in
it. And there is nothing to say on this coz people who are into metal don't
give a fuck about what society thinks, and the society thinks that people who
are into metal are band or evil or whatever, but we are kids having fun the way
we want to. Although it hard to survive in here few people respect us and
listen to us. It makes us proud for what we did. Unlike in Europe and in America,
we don't have venues that let us play metal music, we don't have shows that pay
us money, well the big bands do but for us its DIY and we pay to play and don’t
even earn half of the money we invested through ticket sales. But, who am I to
complaint, I love playing music and the best thing is I get to do it with no
one telling me what to do.
And
about metal being underground or main stream I don't really care Metal is Metal
to me no matter what is in it. There is always this debate going on about bands
going mainstream, and people seem to have a misunderstanding between the words
SELL OUTS and MAINSTREAM coz as I understand when bands go mainstream they sign
with a big label and their albums are sold in a wider radius than just their
town, with no such change in their music what so ever. But selling out is doing
what you're told to by the record label and feature Justin Bieber on one of
their death metal songs to earn more money. Going mainstream just broadens the
fan base I guess and without these mainstream bands the people beyond the scene
would never find out if that kind of music even existed. So, it’s just way you
think.
At lastly I want to say to our
entire fan and this magazine reader stay tuned and sends us some nude pictures
of yours, ladies. We would appreciate it.
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