Gene Hoglan Plays UNDERSIDE

Song: Gadhimai
Band: UNDERSIDE
From: Spotify Single UndersideNepal
Websites: MetalForNepal.com, UndersideNepal.com, UNDERSIDE Facebook, Gene Hoglan Facebook, HoglanIndustries.com

Text: In December 2019, TESTAMENT had the honor of performing at the Silence Festival in Kathmandu, Nepal.
We were hosted by the festival’s organizers UNDERSIDE and their management, Flower KC.
In transit to a band dinner the night before the show, it was learned that UNDERSIDE’s drummer was not able to fly into the show from his native India due to the massive unrest that his home country was currently undergoing.
I felt the supreme disappointment from the band’s management and immediately sympathized with their plight. After all, UNDERSIDE are the Silence Festival’s promoters, who rightfully utilize their position as such to promote themselves by playing on the Silence Fest’s stage, and now that action was in absolute peril.
Without ever hearing the band, yet heartened by my newfound friendship with them and their management, I casually mentioned that I would be happy to play their set for them. This seemed to bring a little hope to them at a seriously dark moment.
Little did I know what an incredible band UNDERSIDE is. And that no matter what, not knowing their material, no rehearsals, very little sleep, I was going to try to do as much justice to their songs at the show as I could.
And it is in that spirit that I started this little project of tracking a series of songs we performed that day.

UNDERSIDE has no idea that I’ve done this. They will find out about this on the day of its release...

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