Next year, in 1980, he joined a heavy metal band Apocalypse, and performed in 1981 alongside much older musicians at a large venue in Belgrade's Tašmajdan pool.

The band had several tours across Yugoslavia, made a number of concerts and appearances on radio and TV, and was featured in many magazine articles and commercials.

When Yugoslavia took part in Live Aid in 1985, organizing a venue on Belgrade's Red Star soccer club stadium, Magično oko opened the concert.

In 1989, Bane joined Viktorija band, and spent the next three and a half years playing with them, composing the music and the lyrics for some of their most successful hits – "Rat i mir" and "Od Splita do Beograda".

At the same time, Bane started working on an instrumental album called Universe, that was published by PGP-RTS as a limited edition, only in 2002.

In 1999, Bane joined Osvajači (The Conquerors), where he participated in two of the band's albums, and performed throughout Serbia and Montenegro and Europe.

The album includes cover versions of Niccolo Paganini’s 5th, 11th and 16th caprices, Moto Perpetuo, as well as Rimsky-Korsakov’s "Flight of the Bumblebee".

[4][5] During his Real Illusions Tour in 2005, Steve Vai performed in Belgrade's SKC and invited Bane Jelić to be a guest artist.

Between April and June 2007 Bane was engaged in a project for Evolucija, a Serbian and Swiss gothic metal band, creating all music, lyrics, arrangements as well as producing, mastering, mixing and playing guitars.

In December 2015 they published their 7-th album Sad je na mene red (Now it's my turn) for Pop Music Records.

2020, collaboration with Nick Z. Marino singer and keyboardist of guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen 2021, he has been playing with the group ZAR from Munich.

In addition to music and painting, Bane is a great lover of literature, and spends part of his time writing.