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Nemesis

Alternative/Indie·Dhaka·formed 1999·band
Mainstream RockAlternative Rock

Position in the network

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8
Documented events
22
Observed connections
22
Connections, all layers
16
Community size

Sits in a 16-act community whose dominant strand is Alternative/Indie, alongside Arbovirus, Artcell, Ashes, Bay of Bengal, Chirkutt, Cryptic Fate and others.

Members

  • Zohad Reza Chowdhury — Vocals (joined early 2000) (2000–present)
  • Ifaz Abrar Reza — Guitar (1999–present)
  • Sultan Rafsan Khan — Guitar (unspecified–present)
  • Raquibun Nabi Ratul — Bass (unspecified–present)

Discography

  • Onneshon · 2005 · studio
    Obocheton · Kolporajjo
  • Tritio Jatra · 2011 · studio
    Bir · Kobe

Documented influences

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  • Unspecified in available sourceshypothesized

    Available sources document Nemesis's formation and hit singles but do not specify concrete Western artist or genre influences; flagged for further research (e.g., band interviews) rather than assumed.

    Source: Wikipedia Nemesis (Bangladeshi band)

Local adaptation

Formed by recent high-school graduates with abundant free time, Nemesis's origin story — meeting future vocalist Zohad at a New Year's Eve rooftop party — reflects the informal, peer-network-driven formation pattern common to late-1990s/early-2000s Dhaka youth bands, later professionalizing via G-Series (debut album) and Dead Line Music (second album) label releases.

Sound evolution

Founding period (1999–2000): formed by high-school-age friends; vocalist Zohad Reza Chowdhury joined in early 2000 after a chance rooftop-party meeting. Breakthrough period (2005): debut album Onneshon (G-Series) produced enduring hits 'Obocheton' and 'Kolporajjo,' propelling the band to mainstream popularity through the late 2000s and early 2010s. Consolidation period (2011): second album Tritio Jatra (Dead Line Music) added further hits ('Bir,' 'Kobe') to the band's catalogue across a three-studio-album career to date.

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

Concert culture

Co-headlined the BAMBA Eid celebration concert at Jamuna Future Park alongside Warfaze, Maqsood O Dhaka, Renaissance and Mechanix (see data/concerts/bamba-eid-concert-jamuna-future-park.json), indicating an active presence within the multi-band festival circuit typical of mainstream Bangladeshi rock acts.

Listener community

One of the most popular mainstream/alternative rock bands of the late 2000s–early 2010s generation, appealing to listeners bridging the earlier 'Big Three' rock era and the newer alternative/indie scene.

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

Documented events

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Sources

Record last updated 2026-08-06 · source record