Fountainhead is the alter-ego of musical artist Tom Geldschläger. Operating from his studio in Berlin, Germany, Tom has appeared on over 100 albums as guitar player, arranger, producer, orchestrator, mixing/mastering-engineer and sometimes even oud-player. He's recorded and toured worldwide with artists like Obscura, Belphegor, Defeated Sanity, Amogh Symphony, Marco Minnemann, Hannes Grossmann, Voodoogods, Christian Münzner or Nader Sadek, has been featured in various music-magazines around the globe, written several books of non-fiction as well as musical notation, as well as introducing the fretless guitar to extreme metal. Today, Tom is widely regarded as a "modern-day guitar legend", thanks to his inimitable playing style, complex genre-bending compositions and fearless use of fretless instruments.

GUTSLIT is a critically acclaimed extreme metal band reigning from Mumbai, India. The quartet display cut-throat musical precision and blistering speeds meshed with their intense song writing. GUTSLIT has adapted various styles of death metal and grind core into their own brutal array of grinding riffs, pummeling blasts, vicious bass grooves and chilling gutturals. Thus, making GUTSLIT the finest and filthiest extreme band to hail from India. In 2007, the journey began when four like-minded musicians came together in search of something that would stand out and not only hit the mark, but eat it alive. GUTSLIT spent the first years of their career relentlessly playing their instruments and fine-tuning their craft. After dedicating two years to developing their sound, GUTSLIT released their debut music on a split album titled “Contorted Mutilation” (Cataleptic Remains Prds) with French goregrind veterans PULMONARY FIBROSIS. The reviews and feedback on the debut were welcoming and prime

Chaos is reputed for the loud and heavy music that they've been playing since 2005 when they started gigging. Known for their tight and aggressive performances live, the quartet garnered impressive reviews for their debut release, Violent Redemption. The music is fast and frenetic with the aggression not compromising the inspired quality of the musicianship that seeps out of every track. Takes one back to the early 80’s where a few bands were coming together in the Bay Area in San Francisco.

Obliterating Vortex is a four piece technical death metal band from Darjeeling formed in the year 2012. OV has Sailu Rasaily on vocals and guitars, Aditya Darnal on guitars, Brison Baraily on drums and Abhishek Moktan on Bass. The music as convulating as the name itself - but then for afficianodos of the metal music scene,as well as the particular genre they play, this is a compliment, and not the other way round ! OV also cite bands like Martyr(canada), Qua Vadis(canada), Necrophagist, Cannibal Corpse, Obscura, Obituary, Suffocation, etc as influences when asked. Metalheads surely will not be disappointed upon checking their material - if you're into soundscape with off time signatures, gargantuan riffs hard to decifher easily, and growls from the bowels of the earth as vocals, played at blistering tempos, you've come to the right place.