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Aug 3, 2024, 5:51:56 PM8/3/24

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When blackened sludge/doom quartet Indian ceased performing in 2014 after releasing its fifth and finest LP From All Purity, it left a hole in Chicago's extreme metal scene. The band agreed to put the pieces back together, and not even the unexpected suicide of drummer Bill Bumgardner in 2016 put paid to the notion.

"Even before Billy killed himself, we were talking about doing it again," explains guitarist Will Lindsay by phone from the Windy City. "Then everything happened with Billy, and a couple of months later, Ron [DeFries, bass] and I were out drinking one night. We were like, 'Fuck, man, we don't want Billy's suicide to be the final note on the band.'"

"We really wanna do a split with Primitive Man [death sludge band] before an LP, but we may just record it all at the same time," says Lindsay. "I'm confident that the bands together will be a pretty volatile combination."

Not that From All Purity won't be a hard act to follow: "Out of all the music I've ever played in my life, that's my favorite thing I've ever done, without a doubt," affirms Lindsay. "I love that record. It far exceeded what I was expecting when we stepped into the studio."

In the aftermath of the murder, which was caught on the security cameras of the gurdwara that Nijjar headed, Canadian authorities gathered human and signals intelligence pointing to the involvement of Indian officials, including communication intercepts of Indian diplomats in Canada. Some intelligence was shared with Canada by another member of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, which includes Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

There is now no easy way out of the doom loop for either country. For India, there is little incentive to back down given that any retreat would merely encourage the continuation of the diaspora politics in Canada that strained the relationship. Moreover, for the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there will be domestic benefits in treating Canada harshly, since many Indians are highly critical of the tolerance enjoyed by Sikh separatists in Canada.

Nor does the Canadian government have any incentive to back down given the seriousness of what it alleges the Indian government has done. The involvement of agents of a foreign and supposedly friendly government in the murder of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is such an egregious violation of national sovereignty and of contemporary norms of international relations that no government in Ottawa can ignore or overlook it.