Area Is All We Have Rage with Shashank Bhatnagar in Nu Metal-Edged ‘Undertow’ Video

Area Is All We Have with Shashank Bhatnagar. Picture: Courtesy of the artist

Bengaluru band Space Is All We Have move well beyond their space-rock and ambient roots with “Undertow,” getting New Delhi throat-shredder Shashank Bhatnagar (from Bengaluru metallers Inner Sanctum) for a molten riff-fest.

Part of their upcoming 2nd album that’s slated to drop next month, Space Is All We Have deal rap, djent and nu-metal designs on “Undertow,” their very first single of the year. It follows likewise heavy songs like “Broken,” including singer Munz TDT (from folk-metal band The Down Troddence). Songwriter, manufacturer and guitar player Krishna M. Sujith (who now doubles up on guitar for rap star Hanumankind) states they were ending up “Undertow” when they carried out in New Delhi in 2024 and considered inducing Bhatnagar to complete on roaring responsibilities for Munz on “Broken.” Krishna includes, “But then later on it struck me that he might do a complete blown function on another tune on the album itself and we chose to go on with ‘Undertow.’ I sent out Shashank the tune and he liked the concept and was more than thrilled to function.”

Bhatnagar, for his part, states he had not become aware of Space Is All We Have previously, however went on Inner Sanctum drummer Ujjwal K.S.’s word about a band that the Bengaluru sticksman had actually counted amongst his peers. Bhatnagar includes, “I heard it the tune and I enjoyed it. The singer [Shiyasz Abdul] was a terrific rap artist and the words were rather fascinating. I was expected to simply shout occasionally.” He went on to include tidy singing tunes also over Abdul’s rap, which he states “happened arbitrarily and sounded good. “I like doing what the tune needs and whatever comes out, it does,” Bhatnagar includes.

Lyrically, Abdul keeps in mind that there’s a reflective edge to the track, however it’s “absolutely nothing extensive. “He includes,” The lyrics originated from a mix of anger, self-reflection, and humor– the sort of headspace everybody discovers themselves in at some time. Often the expectations we placed on ourselves collapse, often we journey over our own defects, however below all of it there’s still that drive to remain mindful and awake, making that darkness mindful.”

Like the frenzied energy of the tune, the band’s guitar player and author Shashank Akella handled, conceived and performed the video for “Undertow,” recording in a warehouse-type structure with all the members moshing, raving and leaping in addition to Bhatnagar. Krishna states, “All throughout he [Akella] understood precisely what he desired us to do and we simply followed, it was tiring by the end of the day however we had a great deal of enjoyable. The video was contended our good friends Mohan and Freeman’s workshop. Interestingly, they were working there while the shoot was going on that day.” Bhatnagar remembers being contacted us to a remote commercial block in a town with really little phone network once things got rolling, he was in on the enjoyable. He states, “We clicked truly quickly, I like all the guys. The tune has actually grown on us like insane, so we believed, ‘Let’s have some enjoyable.'”

Area Is All We Have’s next album– the follow-up to 2020’s Thank You, Universe!— has 11 tracks, including their current songs from 2024 and “Undertow.” There’s likewise a drum and bass remix of a tune, an experiment they likewise performed on the very first with DJ-producer Synths Back handling their live staple “She’s From Venus.” Krishna includes, “An electronic remix is something we like to put in each of our record as we like to display a few of the regional skill beyond out soundscape on our record.”