Formed in the early 2004, Black Metallers Antim Grahan rise from Kathmandu. Covering some songs of the likes of Children Of Bodom at the beggining, the band now has a strong hold identity of it's own originals. Fronted by the vocalist Parash, Antim Grahan is Pankaj on guitars, Supath on guitars, Pratik on bass, Niraj on keys and Sabin on drums. The band has undergone a few line up changes with the bass player Pratik and drummer Sabin joining the band later replacing previous member Sagar on bass and Hari on drums, who left the band due to their own personal reason.
The band took out an EP titled 'Forever Winter' which was a joint production of KTMROCKS RECORDS, Mingmar Dolma Lama and Antim Grahan. Antim Grahan is the first band to have a record deal in the history of Nepali metal scene. They got the label of KTMROCKS RECORDS which happened to be the first record company in Nepal for the local underground metal scene. The EP, 'Forever Winter' got an overwhelming response from the metal fans which created an immense popularity of the band in the underground metal community around the country. Songs like 'Infected' and the title song itself 'Forever Winter' was a massive success.
The band says that their music is representation of pain, suffering and dark realms of imaginary worlds. About their music, the band says " We really don't wanna give away any messages to our listeners coz the whole music is presented in a very story like way, more of like fairy tales with a very dark and painful environment. So all we want is that the people enjoy our music and have totally fuckin' owesome time while listening."
After a very good response from the fans from underground community for their debut EP, "Forever Winter", and then they released their second album titled "Tales From The Darkened Woods". This album by the band has come in a very short time off it's release of their first album, but the new album promises to be much improved technically and musically. 'Tales From The Darkened Woods' is much more bigger, better and heavier then their first EP.They have now come out with their 3rd New Album titled "In The Ambience Ov Malevolence".The most profoundly dense track on the album is “With Vengeance I Bleed”, with inventive use of classical piano motifs, all the while raging with blast beats and journeying through a full-on classic metal passage; it’s a song of utter brilliance. The final track “300″ is total black metal mayhem and is, of course, inspired by film adaptation of the graphic novel 300 that came out last year. The song samples Gerard Butler’s famous “Tonight, we die in hell!” quote from the film and fittingly, the vocalist also yells “This is Sparta” after the midway build-up.The album has powerful unhinged black metal interspersed with melodic keyboards and haunting female vocals. Admittedly, it’s a sound that has been done to death by the likes of Cradle of Filth and Nightwish. It’s not breaking new ground, but at the same time this loud-soft dynamic really enhances their sound, and is best incorporated on “Infected II” and “Serenade For the Gracious Death”. There are sweeping guitar riffs with epic overtones as on “Angels and Eternal Dismay” and more brutally on “Winter Blossom Ov Ceremonial Grief”.
Carrying on to the melodic level that the band has been going on, they have experimented with traditional 'Flute' and a new member, female vocalist Rajani Kayasta on their new album.This is the first time in Nepal that any underground metal band has introduced these kinds of experiments..
The band sites their influences as Gorgoroth, Cradle of Filth, Lord Belial and so on.
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