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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.

Formation

Warfaze first showed up on the music scene of Bangladesh in 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. Soon Reshad started having difficulties with other members of the band and Mashuk and Fuad found themselves overcommitted and they all had to quit, leaving Warfaze in search of members yet again.

In 1990, Warfaze eventually came across Sunjay and Russell who joined the band as the vocalist and keyboardist respectively. Thus the first stable line up of Warfaze was:

Sunjay
- vocal
Kamal- lead guitar
Babna - bass guitar and back-up vocal
Russell - keyboard and second lead guitar
Tipu - drums

Early days

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.

Changes in band line up

Warfaze, since their inception, has changed their line up numberous times. Here is a list of the more stable ones:

First line up

Kamal - bass guitar
Helal - drums
Mir - lead guitar
Naimul - lead guitar
Bappi - 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 Bhalobasha

Fourth 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-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-keyboard
Cezan-bass guitar
Tipu-drums and precussion

Released album Moharaj (June, 2003)

Discography

Warfaze (1991)
Obak Bhalobasha (1995)
Jibondhara (1997)
Oshamajik (1998)
Alo (2000)
Moharaj (2003)

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