page_title: Bangladeshi rock
section_title: Experimental
hierarchical_section_title: Bangladeshi rock / New subgenres (late 1990s to mid 2000s) / Experimental
caption_attribution_description: English: Arnab came to Dallas to perform in Bangladesh Night (organized by BSO) on Oct 19th,2012..As usual, the show was mind blowing
context_page_description: Bangladeshi rock music is the rock music in Bangladesh that derived from the British and American rock music and mixed up with Bengali classical and adhunik music from the 1960s. In Bangladesh rock music is often recognized as "band music". Rock music was introduced in the 1960s, by few bands, who from the beginning have been developing a distinct rock sound of Bangladesh. Bangladeshi rock is commonly divided into two categories, the "East Pakistan" rock scene and the "Bangladesh" rock scene. From the 1970s to 2000s, it was sometimes considered as the most popular genre in the country.
  From the mid 1970s to late 1990s, Bangladeshi rock was heavily influential in the development of various kinds of fusion in southern Asia like: folk rock, pop rock, hard rock and heavy metal. In the 2000s, Bangladeshi rock music saw the development of heavy metal music as many subgenres emerged in the scene like:
  thrash, death, and progressive. Bangladeshi rock bands from the 1970s to 1990s, had a very distinct sound, with keyboards being a very common instrument among the popular bands.
context_section_description: Experimental rock is the mixture of rock with classical music of different culture. The first experimental rock in Bangladesh is thought to be started by Arnob in the mid-'00s. Experimental bands in Bangladesh sometimes used distortion in electric guitar, along with multiple instruments of different culture like: sitar, esraj, tabla, harmonium and flute. The artists of this genre usually writes songs based on romanticism and their lyrics are often considered to be poetic.
  Arnob with his visual arts education from Visva Bharati University and Shironamhin with their poetic songs began to develop Bangladeshi rock in an artistic manner, and soon got huge success as both artists sold half a million copies of their albums and was soon being considered one of the greatest of the decade. Most of Arnob's early works were considered to be folk or some kind of fusion, his most experimental album was Arnob & Friends Live (2009), which contained songs from his world tour in 2008. Arnob and Shironamhin, these two artists were also the first to release a Rabindra sangeet album as a rock artists. Shironamhin released Shironamhin Rabindranath in 2010 and Arnob released Adheko Ghume in 2012. Before this scene, Bangladeshi rock musicians neither did feel the need of being artistic or being philosophical. This particular artists were somehow inspiring the generation along with folk rock musicians in starting a cultural movement in the country to protest against the conservatism of religious leaders and politicians. The popularity of experimented music still remains but, the artists have gone in different directions, with Arnob taking a break from music and Shironamhin who went on to release alternative metal songs. Chirkutt are the only band doing experimental rock in the 2010s. They tour heavily, mostly perform in stadiums and they also have developed the arena rock along with other bands like, Arbovirus and Nemesis. Though many young people had lost interest in the genre in the early -10s, their has been a renewed interest in the genre.
caption: Arnob pictured in 2012, while performing in Dallas, Texas.
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