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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Janelle Borg

“I had to sell my phone to buy my first guitar because my parents wouldn’t let me get one! It was a very, very bad acoustic – a knock-off Gibson called Givson”: How Bloodywood went from dodgy guitars and YouTube covers to India's biggest metal band

BERLIN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 28: Karan Katiyar of Bloodywood performs at Huxleys Neue Welt on February 28, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Andrea Friedrich/Redferns).

It’s been a whirlwind couple of years for New Delhi’s Bloodywood, and guitarist Karan Katiyar knows he’s fortunate to be there. “We played Wacken Open Air in 2019, on our first tour ever,” he says. “Our third show ever was at a festival in Germany. I don’t know how we did it – we had no tour manager and no idea about merch. Half of us had never been abroad!”

Bloodywood have learned a lot since then. They dropped their sophomore album, Nu Delhi, earlier this year, and they’ve been on tour with Babymetal, also guesting on the headline act’s latest album, METAL FORTH.

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