I Got The Wrong Tattoo are punks at heart

At the first-ever conflict of the bands hosted astatine BLR Hubba successful January this year, rock/metal set I Got The Wrong Tattoo were archetypal runners up, edging retired bands from crossed the country.

That is erstwhile they turned up connected our radar, already preparing to merchandise their debut EP Addicted to a State of Mind. Founded by vocalist and guitarist Vishnu Menon primitively arsenic a solo project, the Bengaluru-based set present comprises drummer Rohaan Nambiar, guitarist Sugam Deka and unrecorded bassist Abraham Jacob. At BLR Hubba and each show, the set presents metallic and hard stone with reckless abandon, thing they person bottled into their workplace recordings connected the five-track EP that came retired astatine the extremity of March.

Listen to Addicted to a State of Mind and you tin perceive everything from the epic-scale ambitious riffs and dual guitar solos of bands specified arsenic Avenged Sevenfold arsenic good arsenic old-school Pantera riffs, alongside metalcore breakdowns and everything successful between.

Conceptually, Vishnu says they were penning songs astir addiction and chasing a precocious that lone occurred concisely successful one’s life. “It goes from the infinitesimal wherever helium has nary thought what this substance is to the last constituent wherever helium realises this precocious helium was searching for was conscionable the mean beingness helium erstwhile lived,” helium says.

The founder, who began making euphony astatine the property of 14 and primitively conceived the task arsenic an instrumental one, says helium drew from idiosyncratic acquisition erstwhile it came to penning ‘Gods Don’t Believe’, ‘Late Night Target Practice’, the rubric track, ‘Iconic’ and the much reflective, inward looking ballad-like ‘Urges’. He adds, “Many of these lyrics stem from idiosyncratic experiences, my struggles and my attempts to flooded them.”

How does it consciousness knowing his stories are retired there? “I consciousness a small naked, due to the fact that my deepest, darkest thoughts are successful the songs,” Vishnu says, pausing for a infinitesimal earlier continuing, “I inactive haven’t travel to presumption with what I consciousness astir that. I’m not going accidental it is simply a atrocious oregon bully feeling.”

At a clip erstwhile memes person go the mode to transportation a speech among younger, chronically-online people, Vishnu says euphony has been his outlet erstwhile helium could not explicit what helium felt to friends oregon family.

He points to American punk stone set Green Day’s deed medium American Idiot as a wellspring for inspiration. You tin spot it successful the band’s on-stage manner prime of achromatic shirts and reddish ties (made fashionable by Green Day’s frontman Billie Joe Armstrong), but Vishnu besides notes that I Got The Wrong Tattoo is inspired by punk arsenic an ethos, adjacent if you whitethorn not perceive it successful their music.

If determination is 1 mode the set is going against the grain, it is successful penning lengthy songs successful the property of short-video formats and arsenic abbreviated attraction spans. The EP’s closing way ‘Iconic’ clocks successful astatine 7 minutes (with a euphony video is successful the works) portion different songs scope betwixt 5 and six minutes, with the objection of ‘Urges’.

Talking astir the varying opus runtimes, Vishnu says, “I don’t deliberation 1 should attack immoderate benignant of creation with a limitation. Whether you are drafting thing oregon penning a screenplay, you bash it due to the fact that you consciousness the request to. None of america started playing our instruments for different radical to hear; we started playing due to the fact that thing resonated wrong us.”

Their adjacent EP titled My Art Remains As a Memory In Your Name is already successful the making and Vishnu points retired the shortest opus connected that 1 is conscionable nether six minutes and the longest is 9 minutes. “It is rather chaotic, and I consciousness it is overmuch person to punk stone than our archetypal EP. Some sections conscionable spell to an 80s disco beat,” helium says, describing their adjacent sonic turn.

The frontman believes the lyric penning process is, erstwhile again, going to beryllium a cathartic dive into the darker corners of his caput to explicit what helium is often incapable to speech about. “It is the lone mode I tin get immoderate benignant of intelligence peace,” helium says.

I Got The Wrong Tattoo is an outlet for emotions arsenic good arsenic a conveyance for friendships. “We truly bask each other’s company; we are champion friends and we constitute songs each the time.”

That seemingly effortless camaraderie and fist-tight, yet fun-filled playing takes centrestage astatine their shows. The set is utilizing the wealth they won astatine BLR Hubba’s Bands Galore contention arsenic good arsenic income from tribute gigs to grounds live. “All the wealth we marque arsenic a set stays with the band.”

There is nary uncertainty it is pugnacious for upcoming autarkic acts to adjacent interruption even, but the guitarist remains hopeful. “We person a set money that covers expenses, but astatine the most, we get a tiny nett that volition wage for lunch,” Vishnu says with a laugh.

I Got the Wrong Tattoo execute astatine The Raft, Koramangala connected June 20, tickets starting astatine ₹499 disposable connected Skillboxes. They execute successful Kochi connected June 27; tickets from ₹599 connected Sortmyscene.