Kasck have released The Universal Lie, their first album, through Witches Brew.
Eleven years went into it. The band formed in Pune in 2015 and until now had put out one EP, Deal with the Devil in 2023, and a handful of singles either side of it. Seven tracks is a short record by thrash standards and that is the right length for a band making the case for itself rather than filling a side.
Divide By Design went out first as a single with a video, and the album opens on the title song. Track four shares its name with an Iron Maiden single, which Kasck also released on its own last year.
Mayank Katare sings and plays guitar, Saurabh Lodha is on bass and Saurabh Sharma came back to the drums this year after a spell away. Witches Brew, a German label with a long record of finding thrash bands a long way from Germany, put it out.
India has a thrash scene older than most people outside it assume, and this is the part of it that still goes unreported.