Shunno

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

• Arbovirus
  5 shared bills
• Arekta Rock Band
  1 shared bill
• Artcell
  2 shared bills
• AvoidRafa
  1 shared bill
• Bay of Bengal
  1 shared bill
• Chirkutt
  5 shared bills
• Conclusion
  1 shared bill
• Cryptic Fate
  5 shared bills
• F Minor
  1 shared bill
• Lalon (Lalon Band)
  5 shared bills
• Minar Rahman
  1 shared bill
• Nemesis
  5 shared bills
• Powersurge
  1 shared bill
• Shironamhin
  1 shared bill
• Vikings
  1 shared bill
• Warfaze
  2 shared bills

• Imrul Karim Emil — Founder (2007–present)
• Shaker Raza — Founder (2007–present)
• Andrew Michael Gomez — Band member (joined shortly after founding) (2007–present)
• Rafatul Bari Labib — Band member (joined shortly after founding) (2007–present)
• Ishmamul Farhad — Lead Guitar (joined 2016) (2016–present)

• Notun Srot · 2008 · studio
• Shoto Asha · 2009 · studio
  Shoto Asha
• Gorbo Bangladesh · 2011 · studio
• Bhaago · 2014 · studio
  Shono Mohajon
• Lottery · 2017 · studio

• Western pop rock/soft rock traditions (general)low

  Shunno's genre profile (alternative rock, pop rock, pop, soft rock) reflects a melodic, accessible rock idiom consistent with mainstream Western pop-rock conventions; specific artist-level influence citations were not located in available sources.

  Source: Wikipedia Shunno; Band Music of Bangladesh profile

Shunno achieved a rare instance of a rock song becoming genuinely national civic property: 'Shoto Asha' (2009) became the official theme song for the 2011 Cricket World Cup, and 'Shono Mohajon' (from Bhaago, 2014), originally about oppression under dictatorship, was spontaneously adopted as the 'unofficial anthem' of the 2024 Student–People's uprising — demonstrating how alternative rock lyrics can be re-activated by listeners as protest material years after release, independent of the band's original framing.

Founding period (2007): formed by Imrul Karim Emil and Shaker Raza, quickly joined by Andrew Michael Gomez and Rafatul Bari Labib. Breakthrough period (2008–2009): debut album Notun Srot (2008) followed by Shoto Asha (2009), whose title track became the 2011 Cricket World Cup theme song — a major mainstream crossover moment. Consolidation period (2011–2017): Gorbo Bangladesh (2011), Bhaago (2014, featuring the politically resonant 'Shono Mohajon'), and Lottery (2017) sustained the band's popularity, with lineup expansion (Ishmamul Farhad, 2016) refreshing the sound.

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 association with the 2011 Cricket World Cup indicates significant mainstream broadcast/national-event visibility beyond the standard concert circuit.

Represents alternative rock's capacity for genuine mass-cultural crossover — via sport (Cricket World Cup anthem) and political movements (2024 uprising anthem) — giving the band's listener base an unusually broad, cross-demographic character extending well beyond a typical rock-fan niche.

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

• Joy Bangla Concert 2020 (6th edition)
  2020-03-07 · Dhaka · metal rock festival
• Joy Bangla Concert 2019 (5th edition)
  2019-03-07 · Dhaka · metal rock festival
• Joy Bangla Concert 2018 (4th edition)
  2018-03-07 · Dhaka · metal rock festival
• Joy Bangla Concert 2017 (3rd edition)
  2017-03-07 · Dhaka · metal rock festival
• RockNation I
  2013-04-12 · Dhaka · metal rock festival

• Shunno — Wikipedia · encyclopedia
• Shunno is a Pop-Rock Band from Bangladesh — Band Music of Bangladesh · profile