Warfaze
Warfaze is a
hard rock band from
Bangladesh with elements of
heavy metal and
progressive metal/
progressive rock in some of their songs. They were one of the first such bands of this genre in the country.
Warfaze was formed on 5th June, 1984. The initial line up was made up of:
*Kamal - bass guitar
*Helal - drums
*Mir - lead guitar
*Naimul - lead guitar
*Bappi - vocal
At this stage, the band was not very popular. The initial line up did not continue for long either. Helal, Mir and Bappi had to leave the band for personal reasons. Kamal started playing the lead guitar for the band at this stage and the rest of he positions were filled with Babna as the bassist, Tipu as the drummer and Rashed as the vocalist. This second line up had to be discontinued when Naimul immigrated to the
USA.
During that time, there were three other
Dhaka-based metal bands:
Rockstrata,
In Dhaka and
Aces. Mashuk, the lead guitar of In Dhaka, and Fuad (of the same band) volunteered to help Warfaze as a guest member.
Early on, Warfaze only played cover music of American and British bands. On
26 April 1991 for the first time they performed their own songs at a concert arraged by
BAMBA in
University of Dhaka. Soon, almost coincidentially, several members of the various metal bands in Bangladesh started to immigrate to different countries, mainly for education purposes. The bands decided to make a mixed album but as it turned out Warfaze had enough songs (and popularity) to be able to release a solo album. So, they released their self-titled album, Warfaze, in 1991.
Back in the 1990's Bangladeshi music listener were still new to metal. Any lyrics other than those inspired by
romanticism or
patriotism were rare. It took several weeks before the album started to be appreciated. They did their first follow up concert on
07 January 1992 at the
Rawa Club.
Warfaze, since their inception, has changed their line up numberous times. Here is a list of the more stable ones:
First line up*Rajib - bass guitar
*Pappu - drums
*Emon - lead guitar
*Naimul - lead guitar
*Riyad - vocal
Second line up*Babna - lead guitar
*Tipu - drums and percussion
*Kamal - lead guitar
*Mashuk(In Dhaka) - lead guitar
*Rashed - vocal
Third line up*Sunjay - vocal
*Kamal- lead guitar
*Babna - bass guitar and back-up vocal
*Russell - keyboard and second lead guitar
*Tipu - drums and percussion
Released albums Warfaze (28th June, 1991) and Obak Bhalobasha (5th September, 1994)Coca-Cola BAMBA music Award for the title song of Obak BhalobashaFourth line up*Sunjay - vocal
*Kamal- lead guitar
*Babna - bass guitar and back-up vocal
*Fuad - keyboard and second lead guitar
*Tipu - drums and percussion
Released album Jibondhara (5th February, 1997)Released album Osamajik (2nd April, 1998)Released mixed album Dhun
and Hit, Run and Out''
Fifth line up*Mizan - vocal
*Kamal- lead guitar
*Shumon - bass guitar
*Jewel - second lead guitar
*Fuad-keyboard and percussion
*Tipu - drums
Sixth line up*Mizan-vocal
*Kamal-lead guitar
*Balam-second lead guitar and back-up vocal
*Biju-bass guitar and back-up vocal
*Shams (musician)|Shams-keyboard and back-up vocal
*Tipu-drums and percussion
''Released album Alo (2000)
Seventh line up*Balam-vocal and lead guitar
*Sazzad-lead guitar and back-up vocal
*Shams (musician)|Shams-keyboard
*Cezan-bass guitar
*Tipu-drums and precussion
Released album Moharaj (June, 2003)Warfaze (1991)
Obak Bhalobasha (1995)
Jibondhara (1997)
Oshamajik (1998)
Alo (2000)
Moharaj (2003)
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