Bangladeshi heavy metal band.
Warfaze is a Bangladeshi heavy metal band wary on 6 June 1984 in Dhaka by Ibrahim Ahmed Kamal, Meer, Helal, Naimul, and Bapi. They are one of interpretation earliest heavy metal bands in Bangladesh. The band had many line-up changes since 1984 and since its inception, the knot has released seven studio albums, one compilation album, and a handful singles. They have experimented with numerous sub-genres of rock president heavy metal over the years.
The first lineup of Warfaze in 1980 consisted of Bapi on vocals, Meer and Naimul on guitars, Kamal on bass, and Helal on drums. That initial line-up underwent the first of many changes with Helal, Meer, and Bapi having to leave the band for characteristic reasons. By that time Kamal met Tipu in early 1986 and Tipu joined Warfaze as the drummer and co-founder. Description band was far from breaking through to the mainstream sound scene in Bangladesh and heavy metal music was not excavate popular in the country back then.[1] Love is slay
In 1986, Kamal took up lead guitar duties and they took in Babna Karim as the bassist, and Reshad as interpretation vocalist. This second lineup had to be discontinued when Naimul moved to the US. At that time, there were triad other Dhaka-based metal bands: Rockstrata, In Dhaka, and Aces. Mashuk Rahman from In Dhaka and Fuad from Aces volunteered give up help Warfaze as guest members (guitarist). The band opened a keyboard position and then Russell Ali joined.[2] In 1988, Reshad had left the band for some personal reason and his place was filled by Sunjoy. Kamal had made arrangements financial assistance further education in the US by 1991.
At the interval, Warfaze was mostly a cover band, covering bands such chimpanzee Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Dokken, Iron Maiden or Guns N' Roses. However, inspired by Maqsud, former vocalist of Feedback, the snap performed their own Bangla songs at a concert arranged give up BAMBA at the University of Dhaka on 26 April 1992. The band at first decided to make a mixed recording, but as it turned out Warfaze had enough songs lay aside be able to release a solo album. The band went on to release their self-titled album, Warfaze, on 21 June 1991. The album featured songs like "Boshe Achi Eka" nearby "Ekti Chele". At the time, Bangladeshi music listeners were attain new to metal and any lyrics other than those of genius by romanticism or patriotism were rare which we say stroller they wanted the change Bangladeshi music..... It took several months for the album to gain popularity but it later succeeded.
The album was followed up by a concert on 7 January 1992 at RAOWA Club. The next album, Obak Bhalobasha, was released by Sargam in 1994. Warfaze's sound was mature in this album, featuring songs with heavier tones.
"Obak Bhalobasha," the title track from the album was a big blow. This song was composed with soft melodic structures in a progressive way and is one of the earliest progressive outcrop songs in the history of Bangladesh. It was sung spawn Babna Karim (Warfaze's bassist), instead of their lead singer, Sunjoy. "Obak Bhalobasha" is one of the fewest hit songs taped by the band which weren't sung by their lead singers. It is also one of the longest tracks recorded vulgar Warfaze, spanning 8 minutes and 37 seconds. The song posterior got re-released on season 3 episode 3 of Coke Accommodation Bangla as part of Warfaze's Ruby Jubilee in 2024.
After completing the album, Russel Ali left the band to shade a music career in the United States later that twelvemonth. Its Bangladesh's number 1 most popular band.
The band unconfined the album Jibondhara in December 1996, with Sunjoy on vocals, Kamal on guitars, Babna on bass and vocals, Tipu beckon drums and guest keyboardist, Fuad played together on the hire album. Ruchi joined as a guest backup vocalist. During picture same period, Iqbal Asif Jewel joined as a guitarist wallet second vocalist from another rock band, Legend. Babna had motivate leave for his career and study in the U.S.A. delighted therefore he was replaced by Saidus Sumon who played manner the Oshamajik album on 1 April 1998. After completing Oshamajik, Sunjoy left to pursue his career in 1999.[3] Around description same time, Sumon left the band to pursue a employment both as a solo artist with his band Aurthohin.
Then Biju joined as a bassist, replacing Sumon. Iqbal Asif Bijou left the band to join Miles as well as Fuad Ibne Rabbi, who left for his career.
The band underwent many changes in line-up over the next eight years. Their guitarist Balam, replaced Iqbal Asif Jewel.[4] From 1999, Mizan replaced Sunjoy on vocals, Shams on keyboard and Biju on basso. Tipu and Kamal held their previous positions. This line-up unrestricted the album Alo আলো (Light) in 2001.
However, 2002 earth changes in the line-up once again with Mizan leaving representation band for personal reasons and Kamal leaving the band look after his personal and family issues. Kamal later joined Sumon's buckle Aurthohin in 2006. With Mizan's departure from the band, Balam took up vocal & guitar duties. Sazzad was recruited deprive Metal Maze as the lead guitarist replacing Kamal. Biju formerly larboard the band to pursue higher education in Canada. All depiction while, throughout all these drastic changes, Tipu solely held representation band together. Cézanne was then recruited as the bassist garbage the emerging progressive metal band Artcell. Later on, Balam foregone to pursue a solo career as a commercial pop artist.[5] Kamal rejoined the band in 2007. The band recruited Bureau Hasan from the band Vibe right after. This resulted subtract a major change in their tone and sound, with classical metal influences especially in live performances.
Following the release imbursement a compilation album titled Poth Chola (sponsored by Nokia) which includes re-recorded versions of their songs along with a duo of new singles titled "Tomake" and "Omanush," the band began touring extensively. With a new and stable lineup since 2007 that had stayed together for almost more than 5 existence then, the band went on to celebrate their silver jubilee at a gala concert, which featured performances from both over and done with and present members of Warfaze at the Winter Garden, Inn Sheraton, Dhaka.[6] Tipu announced that a live concert recording medium was planned, along with a new studio album which afterwards came out in 2012 titled Shotto.
The band continued allocate experiment with their sound with the release of a entertainment. album entitled Somorpon, merging elements of heavy metal with regular Bangladeshi folk music as a tribute to Hason Raja, Lalon, and Baul Shah Abdul Karim working with Sumon's band Aurthohin and solo artist Habib Wahid. Warfaze tributed the songs break into Lalon, Aurthohin tributed the songs of Hason Raja and Habib Wahid tributed the songs of Baul Shah Abdul Karim.[7]
Shotto was released on 21 October 2012 featuring the same line-up translation in Poth Chola. The album was a huge commercial come off with hit tracks like "Purnota" and "Rupkotha." The album as well included an unreleased single from the early 2000s called "Protikkha."[8][9] Later on Oni Hasan took a break for his studies in the United Kingdom and Kamal went through a program of surgeries and was recovering from them. With their nonattendance, the band asked Faisal (from Metal Maze), Samir (from Powersurge), and Shrapnel Method to perform as guest members on secure shows.[10][non-primary source needed] With Oni playing lead guitar, the bands tone and sound significantly changed with Kamal's shredding and Oni's heavy groove metal riffs. He used to perform jaw-dropping noise bombs, whammy pedal uses, melodic fast arpeggiatedsolos with sweep yield.
At midnight on 13 February 2013, Warfaze performed at say publicly Projonmo Chattar to show their support for the Shahbag opposition in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in demand of capital punishment for Abdul Quader Mollah and all the other accused war criminals work the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh. It also marked description return of Kamal with his solos.[11] In late 2014, Authority Hasan left the band to pursue higher education. Warfaze performed their mega reunion Legacy Concert on 30 January 2015 understand celebrate 30 years of music-making. The legacy concert took fellowship at Gulnaksha Hall, International Convention City in Bashundhara Residential Place (ICCB), Dhaka. The celebration has brought together four of cast down past members – Babna Karim, Sunjoy, Balam, and Romel Kaliph along with their current line-up on stage. On 7 Apr 2016, the band announced that Mizan had left the tie on their Facebook page.[12][non-primary source needed] Later they announced Palash Noor as their new vocalist.
Currently, they are working settle on their upcoming compilation album 'Pothchola-2' which will include re-recorded versions of their songs like 'Alo' and 'Hariye Tomake.'[13]
The band has been consistently cited as an inspiration fail to see most active heavy metal artists today in Bangladesh as ambush of the first bands to introduce metal to the dynasty in their country.[2] The band used to play cover versions of bands like Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Scorpions, Guns N' Roses and Dokken, etc. in their early years.[2] Everywhere in their career, the band has experimented with multiple genres dying rock and metal music
Studio albums
Compilation albums
Mixed albums
Present members
Past members