Escher's Knot

Escher's Knot is a Chennai metal band formed in 2009. The Hindu’s early interview names vocalist Abijith Rao, guitarist Anshuman Mishra, bassist Madhav Ayachit, and drummer Manu Krishnan, says Rao and Mishra started the group after meeting at SAE, and says the name comes from the drawings of M. C. Escher. That piece describes the debut EP Tessellations as technical melodic and groove metal. A May 2010 Headbangers India note says the EP was previewed ahead of a Bangalore launch and quotes Rao thanking Stephen Fimmers for mixing and mastering in Germany.

Rolling Stone India in July 2014 (from the June issue) catches the band after members had scattered — Rao and Ayachit toward Bengaluru, Mishra toward Delhi, Krishnan still in Chennai — and after guitarist Siddhartha Ramanathan joined. The single The Grand Design is the comeback the article describes, a short riff song Krishnan and Rao anchor, with a full-length hoped for later. Encyclopaedia Metallum still lists the same five as the current lineup: Ayachit, Krishnan, Mishra, and Rao from 2009, Ramanathan from 2012, and calls the style progressive groove/death metal from Chennai. Discography uses that published lineup and does not invent a later split.

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