According to Indiainfo.com, New Delhi’s The History Channel, an infotainment television channel, has launched a 17-part special series on classic rock music. The series History Rocks was launched Friday with a concert by the Indian band PARIKRAMA in the capital. It will formally go on air June 5 and will present recordings of memorable concerts, rare documentaries and interviews with the cult figures of music and offer a glimpse into the lives of the rock legends spanning four decades of rock music since the ’60s, a communiqué by the channel said.

“It will be a beautiful series because I watched when it was on television the last time. It is being re-launched with several new additions and new features this time, in a completely new avatar. I am looking forward to its inaugural episode on METALLICA’s Black, the documentary on BOB MARLEY and PINK FLOYD’s Dark Side Of The Moon.

“There is also a docu-feature on Pink Floyd’s signature album, which no other channel has shown before,” Subir Malik of Parikrama told IANS Saturday.

Parikrama played 10 originals, which include two new releases – Lechaim (an Israeli word which means ‘two lives’) and Life Is Certain – for the History Channel concert. Besides, it also paid tribute to JIMI HENDRIX, AC/DC and Pink Floyd.

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In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West’s most maligned musical genre – heavy metal – has impacted the world’s cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world’s emerging extreme music scenes — from Indonesian death metal to Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal. GLOBAL METAL reveals a worldwide community of metalheads who aren’t just absorbing metal from the West – they’re transforming it. Creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass-consumerism.

MetalIndia’s own Atul Sharma is also featured in the documentary. Make sure you check it when it comes out.

Read more about the film and release dates here

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