“Is this really happening?” (Monthly Patreon Exclusive Blog - March)

It has been a while since we’ve spoken and there’s so much to unpack! Once the album was released, we wanted to take a break because the burnout was MASSIVE. However, in typical Bloodywood fashion, all plans went belly-up lol. Most of it was because of good reasons, while some not so much. Let’s get talking!


1. ALBUM RECEPTION


HO. LEE. SHIT. Rakshak, our debut album, our baby, our foray into the metal-verse, has performed above and beyond anything we expected. It almost feels wrong calling it “baby” because it turned out to be a monster from day 1 of release (no wonder giving birth to it was an excruciating experience lol). Here’s just some of the highlights we’d like to share:

Charting positions:

Billboard (US) 

• #46 Top Current Album Sales

• #3 Top Current Hard Music Albums

• #4 Top New Artist Albums

• #5 Digital Albums

• #17 Independent Current Albums

• #18 Current Rock Albums

• #32 Heetseekers Albums

• #93 Album Sales

Official Charts (UK) 

• #8 Rock and Metal Albums

• #10 Album Downloads

• #62 Album Sales

iTunes Chart Peak Positions 

•  #4 Worldwide

•  #8 USA

•  #2 Russia

•  #9 Germany

•  #25 France

•  #1 India

•  #18 Australia

•  #28 Japan

These charts and positions are ones that NO Indian band has ever achieved! WHAT?


Quobuz – Qobuzissime Award for debut album “Rakshak” (An award given by the streaming platform Quobuz to debut albums with exceptional recording quality)





Nominated for Heavy Music Awards - Best International Breakthrough Band(voting is still open, you can vote here: https://vote.heavymusicawards.com/




Appreciation from eminent personalities - This would be too long a list to type out. Legendary game designers, award winning authors, star chefs, platinum producers, even WWE wrestlers were raving about Rakshak! However, the fact that Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine himself shared one of our songs takes the cake :D Here's his tweet: 

https://twitter.com/tmorello/status/1505984613889413122?t=lVg3o1wsEjgoJK0pgbzBwQ&s=08




So now you know where the title of this Patreon post comes from.


2. NEW 2022 EU+UK Tour Dates


It bummed the living hell out of us when we had to post pone our EU/UK Tour. BUT.. we’re still coming for a few days in August. Here are the dates:


(9-13 August) Brutal Assault Festival - Czech Republic

11 August - Boston Music Room - London, UK

13 August - The Joiners - Southampton, UK

14 August - Alcatraz Festival - Belgium

16 August - Sputnik Cafe - Munster, DE

17 August - Hydrozagadka - Warszawa, Poland

19 August - Summer Breeze Festival - Germany

20 August - Reload Festival - Germany

We will be posting ticket links tomorrow, and you’ll get them here FIRST. The club shows will go very soon since they are small venues and if you’d like to come, don’t think twice before getting a ticket ;D



3. US TOUR 2022


YES! FINALLY! HOPEFULLY (lol)! If visa officials don’t hate us, we’ll be coming to the US in October of this year! We can’t disclose dates yet since they aren’t final, but the month is. Rest assured, tickets will go live a day in advance for Patrons :)



4. NEW MERCH


Feast yourselves on these tasty new designs :D If you wanna get any of these, head over to www.Bloodywood.net/merchandise










5. ASK US QUESTIONS!


Raoul and I will be doing a livestream exclusively for Patrons in a few days. If you have something you wanna ask, hit us with questions below and we’ll do our best to answer y‘all!

That’s just about the tip of the iceberg in terms of everything that’s going on right now. There’s some super exciting stuff that we can’t talk about yet because it isn’t finalised yet, but here’s a hint - it involves a triple A game studio ;)

Looking forward to a 100 things at a time right now. We feel we’re finally achieving something and the best part is its just the beginning! We made a promise to y’all that we’d make you proud. Here’s hoping we made good on that promise to a certain extent :)

Truckloads of love,
Karan