Bangladeshi heavy metal
Bands like Iron Maiden, Metallica and Megadeth have had the greatest influences on Bangladeshi heavy metal musicians.
[2] Their long instrumental jamming through high amps, powerful distortion and frequent whammy bar sets an early example of heavy rock in the Bangladeshi music scene.
Ayub Bachchu, too, came forward with his technical guitar playing by following the bluesy styles, which also helped emerging heavy rock in Bangladesh.
The young musicians picked up their instruments and started to cover hard rock and heavy metal songs.
While some young guitarists at that time were also impressed by the guitar playing of neoclassical metal artists such as Ritchie Blackmore, Randy Rhoads, Yngwie Malmsteen, Jason Becker and Paul Gilbert.
[citation needed] The first ever Bangladeshi heavy metal band to be formed was "Waves" on 25 December 1981, Frankfurt, Germany.
Their early influences include hard rock and metal bands like AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Motorhead, Thin Lizzy and Van Halen.
They used to cover hard rock and heavy metal songs by bands such as Deep Purple, Iron Maiden and Dokken.
But Sunjoy's powerful high-pitched screaming voice helped develop the idea of heavy metal singing.
On the other hand, Warfaze's lead guitarist, Kamal's fast arpeggios with alternate and sweep picking, tapping, dive bombs and melodic structures uses created heavy metal riffs and solos in their songs.
Rockstrata sounded more brutal and heavy which could be compared to doom metal music of Black Sabbath.
While Warfaze approached more as a technical and fast-paced band similar to the speed metal sound of Deep Purple.
[citation needed] In Dhaka, another band formed in the late 80s to early 90s, was also influential to hard rock and heavy metal.
[citation needed] Followed by the groundbreaking success of Warfaze and Rockstrata, several heavy metal and hard rock bands were formed between the mid to late 1990s.
Although they started as a traditional heavy metal band, their next albums included more complex guitar solos and drumming.
Their songs often contained fast-tempoed heavy riffs and deep vocals which bordered on progressive death metal.
Gibran Tanwir formed Deth Row, in 1991, which did its first show in 1994 and was a huge part of underground metal scene.
Piklu's fast-paced guitar riffs and solos helped bring the extreme metal tone in Aurthohin's songs.
Aurthohin's song, "Shaat Din" from Notun Diner Michile spanned for 28 minutes and 31 seconds, being the longest track ever recorded by a Bangladeshi rock artist.
Two of their most famous songs, "Poth Chola" and "Oniket Prantor" both featured catchy acoustic plucking which helped make their music go mainstream even among non-metal fans.
Artcell's songs, combined with soft melody and complexity, helped make progressive metal go mainstream.
Dripping Gore being the first death metal band in Bangladesh released their first single in a mixed Album called Agontuk – 3 in 2005.
[14] Sazzad Arefeen with help of Shams Mansoor Gani (keyboardist from Warfaze) experimented with classical and symphonic music.
Bands like Funeral Anthem, Minerva and Hallucination also continued to make new extreme metal albums, but not all of them became successful.
In 2015 they held a tribute concert for Bangladeshi rock artists – Azam Khan, Nogor Baul, LRB, Mile, Warfaze, Aurthohin, Cryptic Fate, Artcell, Black, Nemesis, Arbovirus, Powersurge and Mechanix.
They released their full-length debut album, Krittrim Prithibi in 2013 and they are considered the pioneerineering melodic death metal act in Bangladesh.
Although Kamal started the neoclassical metal act by playing technical solos on Warfaze's songs since the beginning, but Oni helped take it further.
In fact, it means to take off the masks and shout out loud and clear about the hidden evils prevalent in human beings.
Through our music, we want to address such evils to our listeners.Other bands include, Barzak, Bloodlust, orator, Nafarmaan and Poizon Green.
[25] Sometimes they pushed even further and ranked 4th,[26] surpassing classic hard rock bands like Aerosmith, Queen, Bon Jovi and Van Halen.
