Arekta Rock Band

Sits in a 7-act community whose dominant strand is Alternative/Indie, alongside Black, De-illumination, Indalo, Powersurge, Severe Dementia, Tahsan Rahman Khan.

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• Riasat Azmi — Vocals (2018–present)
• Ifaz Abrar Reza — Guitar (2018–present)
• Sakib Manzur Zihan — Guitar (2018–present)
• Arya — Bass (2018–present)
• Dipto — Drums ((replaced founding drummer Rasha))

• Ghum Paranor Gaan · year unrecorded · studio
  Eden · Chaap · Ojana

• Video-game and screen culture (general)medium

  The band's best-known song 'Eden' is reported as drawing on the video game GTA: Vice City — an influence vector from global entertainment media rather than from a musical act, and one with no equivalent in the founding-era or metal-era catalogue.

  Source: The Business Standard feature, 'Arekta Rock Band: Music to break free from the shackles of the mundane'

The band's name is a Bangla translation of its own English-language messenger-group name ('Just Another Rock Band'), a small but telling instance of the 2010s pattern in which the English framing comes first and the Bangla is the deliberate localisation.

Formed 2018 out of the earlier band Hash; built an audience on singles ('Eden', 'Chaap', the duet 'Ojana') before releasing the eight-track album 'Ghum Paranor Gaan' at its first solo show — a singles-first, album-later release order characteristic of the streaming era and the inverse of the cassette-era pattern.

Based on documented description and discographic sequence. No audio-feature analysis was possible in this project, so nothing here rests on measured signal.

Appeared at the Joy Bangla Concert in 2020 and 2023; launched its debut album at its own headline show ('Arekta Rock Show') rather than through a label campaign.

Young, digital-first audience; the band is one of the clearest cases in the catalogue of a career built on streaming singles and self-promoted headline shows.

Inferred from co-billing and from what artists and journalists said — this project has no audience-side data.

• Joy Bangla Concert 2023 (7th edition)
  2023-03-08 · Dhaka · metal rock festival
• Joy Bangla Concert 2020 (6th edition)
  2020-03-07 · Dhaka · metal rock festival

• Arekta Rock Band: Music to break free from the shackles of the mundane · feature · accessed 2026-08-27
• Arekta Rock Band to rock Dhaka after two years · news · accessed 2026-08-27
• Arekta Rock Band — Spotify artist page · streaming · accessed 2026-08-27