Bangladeshi rock
[2] In 1968, Zinga released their first song "Tomari Jiboney" which became very popular as it was aired on Shadhin Bangla Betar and East Pakistan TV.
[6] Bengali musician Ravi Shankar[7][5] first brought the issue to the attention of his friend George Harrison in the early months of 1971.
They featured a supergroup of performers that included Harrison, fellow former Beatle Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and the band Badfinger.
In addition, Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan performed an opening set of Indian classical music.
The concerts were attended by a total of 40,000 people, and the initial gate receipts raised about US$250,000 for Bangladeshi relief, which was administered by UNICEF.
After gathering the musicians, Harrison found it extremely difficult to get the recording industry to release the rights for performers to share the stage, and millions of dollars raised from the album and film were tied up in IRS tax escrow accounts for years.
On the other hand, Spondan, led by singer-songwriter Nasir Ahmed Apu, mostly performed traditional folk songs.
Happy Akhand taught, produced, and promoted other artists, including Ferdous Wahid, Kumar Bishwajit, Ayub Bachchu and James.
The bands that played heavy metal developed a sound characterized by overt rhythmic basslines, highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness.
[25] Bangladeshi heavy metal songwriters, inspired by the lyrics of Azam Khan, wrote anti-establishment songs against the autocratic government and about people's rights.
Following Azam Khan[27] and the bands Windy Side of Care and Spondon, Dalchhut included folk rock on their first three albums, Ah (1997), Hridoypur (2000) and Akashchuri (2002).
[28] Aurthohin formed mainly as a heavy metal band but also composed folk rock hits like "Adbhut Shei Cheleti" and "Amar Protichhobi".
Renowned rock musician Ayub Bachchu was inspired to make folk songs by these bands and released Vatir Gane Matir Tane (2006), an Abdul Alim cover album.
[29] Bachchu also warned people that AmaderGaan.com, which he claimed was run by Sumon, was spreading information online that he felt was bad for the music industry.
The lyrics were typically apathetic and angst-filled, and often about political hypocrisy, identity crisis and Bangladeshi war criminals.
In 2005, a road accident resulted in the death of their sound engineer and mentor which led to some key members leaving, eventually including the lead vocalist Kabir who left in 2011.
[citation needed] Experimental bands in the country sometimes use multiple instruments of different cultures like the sitar, esraj, khol, ghatam, and flute.
[36][37] In the mid-2000s folk and alternative rock scene, a few progressive metal bands formed and performed at club shows in Dhaka.
Their first two studio albums, Onno Shomoy (2002) and Oniket Prantor (2006) had a big influence on the country's heavy metal scene in the 2010s.
included De-illumination,[38] Warfaze's late 2000s and early 2010s work, Sazzad Arefeen's Angry Machine, Hallucination and Ionic Bond, with the latter two mainly being melodic death metal bands.
Later on, Ionic Bond released their debut album Amavashya Lore, which was widely appreciated by Bangladeshi audiences despite being in English.
While rock music was still popular throughout the country, a budding indie scene started to flourish in smaller concert arenas.
Bands like The Crowd, Picket, Embers in Snow, Alfred, Headline, and Attic brought about a change in the sound of rock with English songwriting being a common practice in their music.
[41] By the end of the decade, there was a resurgence of hard and alternative rock in the country, with bands like Unmaad, the Conclusion, Adverb, and The Perfect Criminals releasing albums.
[citation needed] It has partially lost ground to Bollywood music from neighboring India, which dominates Bangladeshi radio, and pirated versions are available online for free.
[43] Domestic law has also failed to protect the financial interests of the artists who once led the country's rock music industry.
Extreme metal is mainly an underground genre, which became commercially successful in Bangladesh in the late 2000s, when Powersurge and Mechanix took part in D-Rockstar 2008.
Other significant extreme metal bands of the decade include Hallucination, Minerva, Dissector, Thrash, Trainwreck and Nafaarmaan.
In 2018, Powersurge guitarist Saimum Hasan Nahian urged the organizers of Wacken Open Air to hold a concert in Bangladesh.
Five bands, Karma, Ionic Bond, Torture Goregrinder, Infidel and Trainwreck took part in the competition, with the latter being declared the winner.
