Bloodywood Team Up W/ BabyMetal for Epic Cultural + Sonic Collision on New Single “Bekhauf”.
Bloodywood, torchbearers and metal barrier-breakers hailing from India, share the new video today for new single Bekhauf, featuring fellow international superstars BABYMETAL.
An incredible cultural collision takes place on Bekhauf. The track layers Bloodywood's gloriously gruff vocals and Indian folk sonic nuances with the sweetly melodic vocals of Japan's BABYMETAL. The hyper fast riffing and ferocious breakdown will incite moshpits and non-stop headbanging. Ultimately, the song reminds us that hard rock/metal is a universal language and welcoming to all styles, ethnicities, and genders. And that's truly a beautiful and brutal thing!
"Bekhauf means 'fearless' in Hindi," explains the band. "It was born out of the realization that fear can be seen as a choice, and that choice is our own. It's about using this knowledge to take control of our fears and eliminate the side of them that holds us back."
Bloodywood continue, "It also marks our first ever collaboration. We've been waiting to find the right artists to work with and when the possibility of the BABYMETAL collab emerged, we knew it was time. We were all fans of their music, but were still surprised by the level of synergy we managed to achieve on the track. It's a trilingual song and features English, Hindi. and Japanese, BABYMETAL even sang some parts in Hindi. but we think you can feel the message regardless and that's a testament to this synergy."
The band finishes, "The fact that we tied it all together by creating an anime/video game hybrid video pushes everything to the next level. This is a piece of Asian metal history and we're proud to share it with the world."
Bloodywood also announced this week the continuation of their RETURN OF THE SINGH tour their May 2025 Japanese tour. This is a continuation of their rapidly selling extensive UK and European tour in February and March 2025.
Bloodywood — comprised of Karan Katiyar, Jayant Bhadula, and Raoul Kerr — craft hard-hitting yet modern folk metal sound has made the world sit up, take notice, show up, and sing along. The band recently announced its worldwide signing to Fearless Records and shared the music/video for the song Nu Delhi, which offers some insight into the band's history, as well as its home city. Watch the video for the trilingual track, which has accrued over 3 million streams in just 7 weeks, here.
Now, after more than a year of chipping away at their new material, Bloodywood are ready to unleash to the world their second album in the first part of 2025 showing the depth and power of Indian Folk Metal.
BEKHAUF FEAT. BABYMETAL - OUT NOW
https://found.ee/bekhauf
