Several bands from India have focused more on the hard rock or metal styles. Bangalore based Millennium was one of the first and heaviest metal bands.

Other bands centred around Bangalore and Bombay such as Xenon and Kinky Ski Munky have a dedicated following in their cities. Death metal bands such as Demonic Resurrection have a following in India, and have achieved some favorable recognition amongst international metal experts, as demonstrated by this review at RockSomething.com: "We’ve been waiting for this one at the RockSomething office – and I do mean wait. You see, Demonic Resurrection laid claim to being India’s best demonic metal act and given the quality of this record (and I’ll admit it that bar Dementra, Threinody and these guys, a limited knowledge of Indian metal), there’s little reason to disbelieve them. What makes this record so special however, isn’t the fact that it laboriously crossed the seas for three weeks to get here, isn’t the fact that the main man behind it all is called Demonstealer and isn’t the fact that it’s really, really fucking heavy."

Cochin based band Motherjane is popularly referred to as the first band to put Indian Rock on the world map. Having left their influence amongst the rock lovers in Japan and US, Motherjane continues to scale new heights with each passing season. Motherjane is the first and the only Indian Rock band to have their album aired across a mammoth American, Mexiacan and European radio stations.

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