The Grand Mammoth Festival MMXIV

1. Presents The Grand Mammoth Festival MMXIV

2. ABOUT • The Grand Mammoth Festival is a gig series, backed and promoted by veteran musicians, bands and people from the music industry • It aims to showcase A-list metal bands to the local community of Metalheads • It packages top-notch production with exhilarating live performances at a nominal cost for the community • It targets Metalheads between 13-30, male and female audiences who actively view music as a lifestyle • The First edition of The Grand Mammoth Festival was attended by more than 400 rock hungry and heavy metal fans at Marine Center Vashi in 2013 Sponsored by “ShamraoVithal Bank” in association with “S Kumar Jewelers”.

3. EVENT OBJECTIVES • This event aims at kick starting what we see as a change to the Indian music scene, by promoting national bands. • Over the last few events, The Grand Mammoth Festival has built up a loyal fan following, and the audience has warmed up to larger scale events • To achieve this, The Grand Mammoth Festival MMXIV needs partnerships to cover the basic expenses, and is looking for tie-ups with brands that are very relevant in this subculture. • The Grand Mammoth Festival MMXIV’s success can be measured in terms of the turnout, media coverage, the feedback from online activations, and merchandise and product sales.

4. A GIST OF 2013’s Event

5. 400 and the count goes on….

6. Promotional activity at the entrance.

7. LINE UP • Devoid. • The Down Trodden. • Zygnema. • Primitiv. • System House 33. • Narkasur.

8. LINE UP

9. DEVOID Formed in a decade when heavy metal was still in its infant stages in India, Devoid has grown to become veteran death/thrash metallers in India In 2010 the band released their debut album titled ‘A God’s Lie’on demonstealer records and also followed up with an Indian tour with Dubai’s premier metal band ‘Nervecell’. The tour comprised of cities Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore The band has played major festival like Deccan Rock and NH7 Weekender opened for a number of International acts such as Cradle of Filth, Decapitated, Nervecell, Sybreed to just name a few In 2013 the band released their EP ‘The Invasion’, this received a lot of appreciation not only from the Indian fans but also other magazines and overseas reviewers loved the EP The band was declared as the Wacken metal battle India winner and also represented the country at the Wacken open Air, Germany festival.

10. The Down Troddence • TDT has always been noted for its unique blend of conventional Thrash and Groove Metal with a large dose of traditional Kerala folk music elements, art forms such as Theyyam in particular. • The band also incorporates a lot of traditional folk sounds and instruments in the form of ambient layers in their music. • Rhythm structures used in their songs too are primarily inspired by folk music. • Lyrically the band has a strong philosophy of talking about inequalities and injustices which are ever present in India's social and political • systems. • A common theme in their music is the effort • to project the voice of the under-privileged • and down-trodden people.

11. ZYGNEMA • Zygnema is a Mumbai based 4 piece heavy/thrash/groove metal band that mainly focuses on the social/political “fuck ups” and loves to dig deep down on riffs that are heavy and groove oriented. • The band, over the last 6 years, has won numerous national and international accolades that only do so much to correspond to the powerhouse that the band is. • One such accolade is the award for Rolling Stone Metal awards 2011 Best Metal band and Best Metal Song in the popular choice category. • Zygnema was formed in December 2006, and since then, have been grooving steadily to the tunes of success and uncompromising determination.

12. System House 33 • SystemHouse33 is the first metal band to emerge from the small Indian town of Nagpur but shifted base to Mumbai and has since captured the imagination of audiences all over the country. • The band plays an interesting blend of Thrash and groove with extreme influences from different • styles, including Death Metal, incorporating atmospheric parts and artistic rendering to make it a • notch above the rest in terms of musical expression and presentation.

13. PRIMITIV Primitiv comprising of members from Albatross, Hellwind and Morticide, seek to deny the stereotype attached to genres by varying their sound as dictated by the lyrical themes. The stories told by Primitive about ‘how the Earth is hurled back into primitive ways of life after a holocaust wiped out science, art and culture of the age.’ Primitiv’s new track ‘Taurus’ upholds a well-thought composition, especially a bewitching baseline.

14. NARKASUR • Narkasur is a two year old Band comprises of four young members with immense energy and making it even more powerful. • POWER-ANGER-STRENGTH signifies their Music. • They are Thrash/Groove Metal band from Navi Mumbai. • They believe in THRASH TILL DEATH.

15. Venue MARINE CENTER

16. Media Partners • Hindustan Times • Bombay Times • Radio Fm 98.3 • Rolling stone Magazine • Karyd Magazine • Pop Splat Magazine • IndianStage.in

17. Social Media A month long promotional campaign providing visibility to the sponsors from SM page of The Grand Mammoth Festival and performing bands PR Articles, interviews and listings on all prominent music portals in India PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES On-Ground On ground posters at relevant outlets in the city of Navi Mumbai At the Venue Promotion of the brand at the Venue through visual branding and verbal announcements

18. COMMERCIALS • Title Sponsor (2.5 lakh) <Title Sponsor> in Association with Moonlight Entertainments • Associate Sponsor (85 Thousand) Moonlight Entertainments in association with <Associate Sponsor> presents • Other Sponsors/Partners (40,000 INR) Logo presence at the bottom on all event creative.

19. For more details contact : Jeff Dani | +91-9920626035 Moonlight.ent03@gmail.com NareshNair| +91-9892478309 moonlight.ent03@gmail.com Hebzy J. William +91-9702014280 hebzy.jacob@yahoo.com