The Down Troddence _ Shiva - Indian Band

'The Down Troddence', popularly known as 'TDT' is a six piece Folk - Thrash Metal Band, originally from Kannur district in Kerala, India. The band currently consists of Munz (Vocals), Varun Raj (Guitar), Nezer Ahemed (Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals), Sushin Shyam (Keyboards, Backing Vocals), Ganesh Radhakrishnan (Drums), and Advaith Mohan (Guitar). The band has just finished recording its debut album, which is expected to be released early 2013.  It is being produced by Keshav Dhar (Skyharbor).

he band got its first big boost with the release of the music video for their single 'Shiva'. The video received the Best Music Video award at the IndieGo South Asian Music Awards, ^[2] and has garnered close to 70,000 views on Youtube.^[3] Following a series of victories at college fests in and around South India, the band went on a short hiatus during which time the various band members shifted base to other cities. Munz, Nezer and Ganesh shifted to Bangalore, while Sushin moved to Chennai to work as the studio programmer for famed South Indian music director Deepak Dev. At this juncture, Rinoy also departed the band and was replaced by Advaith Mohan (of Chennai based band 'Iterate'), who is also based in Bangalore.

The band had already released 3 singles independently before 2012, and wanted to work on a full fledged debut album. By mid October 2012, pre-production work on 9 tracks had been completed, and Keshav Dhar of Skyharbor fame, agreed to produce the album. Tracking was done in Bangalore during November, following which the band is in the process of finalizing mixes. The as yet untitled album is slated for an early 2013 launch.