Most music bands often have a backstory of hanging out together with people of similar musical tastes before they decide to form a band. But, when drummer K.M. Adithya and guitarist M. Krishnan struck upon the idea of forming a band, the world was in the middle of a pandemic. Yet, they gathered together four more musicians and began collaborating online through Zoom calls and WhatsApp video calls. Their first song Rockin’ Head was composed entirely through WhatsApp, with each musician recording their parts and sharing it back and forth.
Reminiscent of yesteryears
Now, three years later, the band which calls itself ‘Skreen 6’, in a nod to the members’ early days of collaboration through digital screens, has come out with its debut album titled Rockin’ Head, one of the rare independent rock albums to come out of Kerala in recent years. The music, now released in various platforms, is reminiscent of the hard rock bands of the 1980s, with some of the songs screaming out their love for the genre itself and how it has set them free, when the whole world held them back.
