SavageExecution

Favorite band of all time - shit that's a tough one. Right now I'll go with either Napalm Death or Discharge. Both bands ruled at the start but went to shit later on but their classic 7 and 12 inch shit is the best in the world so...

Favorite song of all time - Integrity's Micha. I listen to it every day. Those bass-lines and the massive riffs. UGH!

Favorite ice-cream flavor - I don't eat none of that unhealthy fattening stuff bro. Hahaha.

The average guy on the street doesn't know what metal or punk is. It's lumped in the same category as rock, rap, trance etc as "Western/American" music. So yeah it's just noise to them. We get some trouble from random university level students who complain about the imagery and antisocial stuff in our music but its few and far between.

I got into metal around 2005-2006. In my school in those days, our seniors were big metalheads who would cover Megadeth, Savatage, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Slayer at 'gig nights'. One of the seniors used to wear a patch jacket with an Emperor patch I remember. So I got into metal through those references - the first CD I bought was A Matter of Life and Death by Iron Maiden, the day it came out. I quickly started consuming as much metal as I could, going into the depths of early 90's Swedish and Finnish Death metal EP's and demos haha.

As for Punk, it was a bit of a less direct journey than metal. I knew of Pop-Punk through bands like Sum41 - they were the first 'rock' band I liked, I was 9 years old and it was 2001 I think. And I was exposed to early hardcore punk bands like Black Flag, Dead Kennedys etc through the Tony Hawk video games, but I didn't get into the genre "properly" until I discovered grindcore around 7 years ago and went into the roots of the thing, which were Crust Punk, Crossover Thrash and Hardcore Punk. The bands that immediately impacted me were Discharge, Doom, Black Flag, MDC, Circle Jerks, Exploited, DRI... huge list to go through, I was affected by the whole early 80s punk thing in general. Everytime I heard a band from that scene I was like "holy shit, they're talking about the same things I think about!". The documentary "American Hardcore" helped a lot too.

Depends - what kind of Punk do you listen to? :)

And Arabic is not spoken at all in Pakistan. No one understands the language, apart from some words that have become part of the Hindu/Urdu canon.

But yes, most songs are English but we throw in Urdu words. My Crust Punk/Grindcore band has had song titles and passages in simple street level Urdu.

I'm located in Lahore. And yeah, I've noticed that too. Pakistan's music sensibility is dead, bro. People still listen to Linkin Park songs from 1999. It's mad vexed! Hahah.