The Earth Below's Doom And Gloom Approach To New Album

Mumbai-based drummer and songwriter Deepak Raghu is working with Bengaluru guitarist Ramanan Chandramouli and bassist-producer Leslie Charles on his full-length debut

- Anurag Tagat

OUT IN a quiet part of south Bangalore, there’s a multi-story studio called Stained Class Productions LLP, where producer Mrinal M. has created one floor with the recording board and on the floor above it, literally up the stairs, is the room where Deepak Raghu, Ramanan Chandramouli and Leslie Charles are recording a heavy, plugged-in and polished new album for The Earth Below.

Mrinal and the band, who are jamming on a heavy but bluesy sort of song (shelved for now), are connected through a monitor mic. For his new album Nothing Works Vol. 2: Hymns For Useless Gods, Bengaluru-bred, Mumbai-based Raghu is running in the opposite direction compared to his stripped-down, noisy and eerie EP Dreams of a Thousand Stillness, which released in 2018.