Sahil Makhija on how he went from EP to album by enlisting members from Decapitated, Aborted, Benighted, Ne Obliviscaris and more
IT’S BEEN ABOUT A FEW WEEKS SINCE Mumbai’s most well-known metalhead, Sahil Makhija aka The Demonstealer, took his personal life off Facebook. For someone who posted album updates and marketed his work with extreme metal band Demonic Resurrection, comedy band Workshop and death metal band Reptilian Death, Makhija says his Facebook account was “doing more harm than good.”
He says with a laugh that he’s getting more work done, even as he stays connected on other major platforms to promote his upcoming third solo album The Last Reptilian Warrior, which is being released track by track. Crowdfunded via PledgeMusic preorders, it originally started out as a four track EP that Makhija wanted guest drummers on. He originally had this collaboration album planned for 2016 album This Burden Is Mine, but then drummer George Kollias (from American death metal veterans Nile, whom Makhija first contacted) decided he wanted to play on the entire album.
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