We have reached a place in the evolution of Indian indie music where it's not uncommon to hear about international tours. Bands across genres do it, and playing packed gigs in cities like, say, Los Angeles isn't the sole preserve of Bollywood personalities anymore. Still, the scale of Gutslit's upcoming Asia tour seems so big that the metal outfit's members will have little time to breathe for a while. It kicks off with Dubai on September 21 and then covers 12 cities and 11 countries, with gigs in places as far-flung as Taipei and Tokyo, before it finally ends on October 7 at Bangkok.

But how did the whole idea for it come about? We ask Gurdip Singh Narang, the band's bassist, and he says that the members of Still Death — the German metal band Gutslit will be touring with — got in touch with them about the possibility of coming over to this part of the world. "We had met them in Germany about four years ago, and have toured in Europe together. So when they wanted to travel this side, we designed a route and went ahead with the plan," he adds, making the whole process sound deceivingly simple, when it was anything but. The first hurdle that they had to take into account, for example, is travelling to a different time zone.