Anti-war music festival in Thiruvananthapuram on April 12 to feature four metal bands

Close to 2 decades ago, a radical of young stone euphony aficionados successful the superior metropolis got unneurotic to organise a stone and metallic festival astatine the VJT Hall (now Ayyankali Hall) successful Palayam. Titled ‘Moshpit’, the festival, which spanned implicit fractional a day, witnessed the coming unneurotic of 10 bands from crossed the state performing to a packed audience. It was 1 of the uncommon stone festivals successful the city, which sees lone sporadic bursts of enactment successful the autarkic euphony scene, which is hard to sustain.

Now different procreation of stone musicians and euphony fans are uniting to organise a euphony festival astatine the aforesaid venue connected Sunday (April 12, 2026) to big metallic bands from assorted States. Titled ‘K\ala/pam - Music Concert for Peace’ and organised by the corporate ‘Humans of World’ (HOW), the festival goes beyond the accustomed nonsubjective of providing a level for autarkic bands. The 1 crushed that spurred them to organise a festival was the ongoing warfare successful West Asia, which made them privation to bash thing to dispersed an anti-war message.