There’s no beating around the bush when it comes to Aarlon. The band’s brand new record, Dafan, will absolutely obliterate you, in all of the right ways of course. It includes eight new songs, all well composed, featuring high-level songwriting with musings on modern angst, melancholy, and spirituality. Based in New Delhi, India, the group is one of the very few metal acts left in the country that perform all of their songs in Indian. Think of it as “dark” metal, songs that look at the more shadowy side of the human perspective, the place that we typically keep all to ourselves. Their goal with Dafan is to bring forward a new musical point of view in India when it comes to heavy metal and show those who ignore or denounce the genre as hollow or empty that this is music that really matters....
