De-illumination

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

• Karnival
  shared member: Sabbir
• Powersurge
  shared member: Samiul Islam

• Shams Mansoor Ghani — Keyboards (formerly of Warfaze) (2006–present)
• Sazzad Arefeen — Founder (2006–present)
• Aqib Kamal — Band member (unspecified–present)
• Anabil Sen — Band member (unspecified–present)
• Zillur Rahman Mithu — Band member (unspecified–present)
• Samiul Islam — Former member (unspecified) · former
• Sabbir — Former member (unspecified) · former
• Rozario Rony — Former member (unspecified) · former

• Dabanol (mixed album; feat. 'Choto Shopno', 'Jantrik Joddha') · 2008 · mixed
  Choto Shopno · Jantrik Joddha
• Rage-1 (mixed album; feat. 'Ekhoni Shomoy') · 2008 · mixed
  Ekhoni Shomoy
• অনিবার্য (Inevitable) · 2010 · studio

• International symphonic rock/metal traditions (general)high

  De-illumination was explicitly formed with the vision of introducing symphonic rock/symphonic metal to Bangladeshi music, a genre founder Sazzad Arefeen had been studying since 1999 — a deliberate, research-driven import of a specific global metal subgenre rather than incidental exposure.

  Source: Wikipedia De-illumination

Co-founded by Sazzad Arefeen (who had studied symphonic metal since 1999) and Shams Mansoor Ghani, then Warfaze's keyboardist, De-illumination represents a direct lineage connection from Bangladesh's heavy metal founding generation (via Warfaze) into a deliberately imported subgenre; the band's name itself articulates a philosophical stance — rejecting 'illuminated exterior, full of imposed knowledge and prejudice' in favor of embracing one's inner light or darkness — giving the symphonic-metal import an explicitly localized conceptual framing.

Formative period (2006): formed with the explicit mission of introducing symphonic rock/metal to Bangladesh, drawing on Shams Mansoor Ghani's Warfaze pedigree. Pre-album period (2008): appeared on two mixed compilation albums (Dabanol, Rage-1) to build recognition ahead of a full-length release. Debut album period (2010): অনিবার্য (Inevitable) delivered the band's first full-length symphonic metal statement, cementing its status as Bangladesh's first symphonic rock/metal act.

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

Specific concert/festival data not yet documented in available sources — flagged for further research; the band's genre-pioneer status (first symphonic rock/metal act in Bangladesh) likely positioned it within the same progressive/heavy-metal festival circuit as Artcell, Warfaze and Cryptic Fate.

Occupies a distinct niche within the Progressive/Metal genre ecosystem as Bangladesh's specifically symphonic-metal pioneer, appealing to listeners seeking orchestral/keyboard-driven textures beyond the guitar-centric progressive metal of Artcell or the straight heavy metal of Warfaze and Cryptic Fate.

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

No events documented for this act yet.

• De-illumination — Wikipedia · encyclopedia