India

[tardocaust]

But, whereas in America heavy metal has distinctly working class connotations, in India the music is accessible only to the privileged few.

Chloe Coventry is a doctoral candidate in the field of ethnomusicology at University of California, Los Angeles and is writing her dissertation on rock music performance in India’s globalized post-liberalization culture. She sees the music as a kind of rite of passage for many of India’s educated youth. “While a few of the older metal musicians I met critiqued the consumer culture [they believed] India was becoming, the younger kids were planning on becoming the engineers and doctors,” Ms. Coventry says. “Rock is still an upper middle-class pursuit here.”

http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/indias-heavy-metal-scene-from-underground-to-mainstream/

[Nightspirit]

How is music in India accessible ONLY to the privileged few when kirtan chanting is kvlture to them? Also Indian public air of dance/techno/party music is played at clubs accessible and affordable to anyone of working status there.

[King_Benny]

Rudra is singaporean metal band comprising of memebers of Tamil descent( South india) ...miles better anything metal  from india