Playing to the gallery

(Left) Kamal the lead guitarist of Warfaze in action. Each performance had the crowd asking for more.

On December 24, Rock Revolution, featuring the performances of 10 bands, was held at the BUET Auditorium.
Water Resource Engineering (WRE) students of BUET observed December 23, December 24 and December 25 for programmes throughout the day. This is a part of BUET's tradition in which the students choose certain days of the year and celebrate them with various activities.
On December 23, WRE students held cultural programmes, seminars and career talks. Rock Revolution was held the next day. And on December 25, they had an Alumni day with the ex-and current students of the department.
On December 24, the bands that performed were Crematic X, Embers, Defy, Funeral Anthem, Owned, Apocalypse, Minerva, Paperscrap, Backlash and Warfaze.
“Before the concerts that started around 5pm, there were three telefilms,” said Atique, organiser. “One was 'Festival', which was based on the life story of a student. There was “Hri”-a psychopath thriller. And there was “Protichobi,” a 48-minute drama about the obstacles and concomitant enjoyments and ordeals to make a drama. The response from the crowd throughout the film was amazing. The house including the upper deck was full and they all responded enthusiastically.” There was also a photography exhibition with projectors and animation on the student's works.
Ali Mohammad Rezai of the band Defy who was the main organiser of the concert said, “We had to put in a lot of work but at the end of the day, it's great fun.” Defy performed Iron Maiden's “Hallow Be Thy Name,” and some more songs, two of which were their own tracks-“ Karabondi” and “Raj Proshader Nobojato”'. He further added that the slot was for 10 bands in four hours but the programme extended to midnight rather than 10pm. There were also in bassTawfique, guitar (lead), Nahiyan , guitar (rhythm)-Himu and drumsShaikat.
Minerva's Shohan, Nabil, Ashiq, Rafsan, Ishmi and Bijoy got a huge response from the crowd at their medley of “Unno Shomoy” and “Sultana Bibiana”. They also did a number of other tracks.
Mishu of the band Crematic X said, “We had been going for slow tracks after winning the Moo's band fest.” They performed a cover and also a number of 'slow' medleys.
Arunav Shuvro from Funeral Anthem said, “The crowd was awesome. Everybody went clapping when we started Children of Bodom's “Every time I die” track. There were like 200 head bangers. Faiyaz, Tawsif, Maruf, Nayeem, Tanvir and Shuvro were explosive when they performed the deadly death metal tracks.
Embers also burned the stage with a dose of Megadeth tracks.
A kind of preparation for war was put on when Warfaze was about to get on the stage. All the 'gears' and ammunitions were changed. Amplified and ready, they put on a two -and a- half hour show all the way to midnight. Shams, Kamal, Tipu, Mizan and Oni simply blasted the stage with a number of slow, fast, rock, hard rock, metal tracks.
“There are only two works to describe the crowd, One 'crazy' and the other 'leeches'”, said Mizan. “They were just awesome! We performed for a long time but there was no feeling of exhaustion in us.”

The writer is a freelance contributor.