The 12th edition of the Metal Festival Bangalore Open Air (BOA) held on 8 February this year, was not sure, not only for metal lovers, but also about the offering of metal in their ability. This is often the correct mark of development of a festival.

There is something to be said to be selected between staying and developing in the course and Bangalore open air has continuously done since 2012. When he returned for four years after an epidemic-lagu break in 2023, the American metalcore band was born from Osiris, Headlineer with Black Metal Veterans Mehem. Then, in 2024, the festival scored an ambitious in a two -day edition at a new place, with the crater of the thrash metal legends and the Swedish melodic death metal favorite.

While the two-day version was promised for the 2025 version, the plans were re-read when the lineup came out-Progressive metalcor band Jinzer and Avant-Guard were the American Act Sinic Hedliners and the Boa Royal Orchid Resort Returned home and convention center in Yalehanka.

This time, there were more bands and two phases, which Boa did not do in a while, as well as stalls from fashion to art and wheelchair-accessible ramps. The meat and greet session, the festival also had another time-tested tradition. More ticket packages included the transfer of housing and airport, as well as an elevated area for viewing.

One of the main attractions of the 12th edition was looking at the indoor region – the Kadens stage officially named Halford’s altar named Judas Priest’s veteran singer Rob Hafard – the total light for Sweden’s Synthwave Duo Midnight Danger and In sound mode, who played the penaltimet set. With wild haircuts reminiscent of the 80s glam metal bands and dissolving facepants, the hypnotic synthawave was thrown out by these gents.

While oscillating between the guitar and a synthesizer, the drummer continued to thrashing dramatically behind his high kit, the midnight danger proved that fans in India, such as metalheads, globally, enjoyed Synthwave.

Scene of Bangalore Open Air 2025 | Photo Credit: Mohit Sharma

Of course, there was a lot of cruel, original metal for fans who know the festival – the Greek Act was a clear favorite for the suicidal angel, who showed in numbers and in the evening mixed in the evening about the mosque. While some sound issues started in Sweden’s Death Metal Band Necrophobic, they put it in business as usual when they stabilized the flow of their performance. Initially, the Pune Thrash Metal Triao Kuskake was received on the indoor platform and pumped into the agreement in the fist, while the first Bengaluru show of the experienced act demonic resurrection was with a lot of reverence in more than five years.

Bangalore’s very internal sanctuary-now Delhi-based singer Shashank Bhatnagar was also in his element-with a small four-song set that still managed to bring down the house. This band was confident and well adjusted, which was to keep a high quality show together, even though they were assigned a small performance slot.

The night again went to the headliner, cynic and jinjer. It was given that they are not everyone’s tea, the first Cynic gained fame in the early 1990s, so that they could build very old schools. His style of jazz-fool and progressive metal has crossed his entire discography Center In 1993 Find out in the air In 2008 (the early part of his set included the song ‘Evolutionary Sleeper’) and more recent albums Please be Libra to free us And Ascension code,

Playing in honor of his late bandmates, Scene Renart and Scene Malon, founder, singer and guitarist Paul Maswidal, moving like a shama or magician, we were weaving progressive rock/metal together for all in the audience . It was often smiling across an indoffile that went self-widening, turning his hands in a namaste.

Scene of Bangalore Open Air 2025 | Photo Credit: Mohit Sharma

Ginger, for his share, was led by singer Tatiana Shamayaluk. The Donnetsk-Origin band leads another recent wave of metal led by a female voice that can grow along the song, which probably surprises anyone who is just searching for gins in Bangalore Open Air Was. It was in a day’s work for all bands, which went on through crushing breakdown, grand chorus and everything in the middle.

Looks as big as usual, Ginger played his new album Duil – It was released just a day before coming to India. There were hits such as’ fast draw, ‘Kafka’ and ‘Kisi Ki Daughter’, ‘Meen’, ‘I Speak Astronomy’ and others.

Boa provided an option that no one was in modern metal, could not see the danger of midnight on the indoor platform, but ginger was unnatural in many ways. Being in India and at one point, Shamaluk created a big point, “his motherland, cherishes my friends,” there were messages of gratitude about “my friends,” he told Boa. Thousands of people admitted, with the mantras of “Jinjar” echo.