But then, he made a pertinent addition to his point. He shared, “Having said that, we have a friend who attended our recent show in Guwahati and really liked it, even though it was his first ever metal concert. That can happen with this music — the energy and intensity grips you if you watch a band live. That’s one of the best ways of getting into metal because when you go back and listen to the music again, it seems more legible.”

Fair point, and Mumbaikars who view metal with the same suspicious lens as the girl at that table now have a chance to broaden their horizons when Godless plays a gig at a Lower Parel venue as part of their launch tour tonight. It will mark the first instance of the genre being played live in the city after the pandemic’s second wave. We have written in these pages before about how jazz bands are also making a slow, but steady comeback. Rock ‘n’ roll, too, has returned to places like The Finch and The Stables. And electronic musicians are practically gathering an army of sorts to take over the city’s gig space, with DJs spinning tracks somewhere or the other every single night. So all in all, Mumbai’s live music space is showing heartening signs of a return unless, of course, Omicron turns out to be a party-pooper after all.

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