attendance, generally 1000-2000 while indoor gigs have few hundreds of attendance. Kathmandu and rock music The Kathmandu Valley is the musical center of rock, blues and metal scene in Nepal. Many new Metal bands have emerged in Kathmandu valley. These days Punk Rock, Metal, Jazz and blues has been highly appreciated by the Nepali music lovers. Owing to dark time during political unrest and Civil war Punk rock also emerged in Nepali underground during early 2000, Many punk rock bands such as squirt guns, Rai Ko Ris emerged from underground covering the topics about malpractice, discriminations and hypocrite society of Nepal. Rock, Jazz, Punk and Metal are evolving in Nepal with much improvement in quality and performance and bands are getting regular gigs at some of best Rock bars in Nepal See also Music of Nepal References External links nepalunderground.com Online media covering local music scene of Nepal The Uprising: Report from the underground scene | From WAVE Magazine Profile of Underground Bands | ktmROCKS.com Rock Rock music by country