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Stentorian

Heavy Metal·Dhaka·formed 2001·band
Heavy MetalSoft RockPower BalladThrash MetalProgressive Metal

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Community size
  • shared member: Shams Alim Biswas

Members

  • Torsha Khan — Vocals, Founder (past member) (2001–unspecified) · former
  • James Kabir — Guitar, Founder (2001–present)
  • Tanim Sufyani — Vocals (unspecified–present)
  • Anabeel Sen — Band member (unspecified–present)
  • Rabiul Awal Real — Band member (unspecified–present)
  • Sumit Gaurab — Band member (unspecified–present)
  • Ahmad Abdullah Saquib — Band member (unspecified–present)
  • Shams Alim Biswas — Bass, Founder (past member) (2001–unspecified) · former
  • Golam Waise — Guitar, Founder (departed 2003) (2001–2003) · former
  • Bobby Khan — Drums, Founder (past member) (2001–unspecified) · former

Discography

  • Protimuhurtey · 2005 · studio
    Adrissho Juddho 2 · Bidrohi · Jolosrot · Anubhuti · Mone pore na

Documented influences

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  • Multi-subgenre metal traditions (soft rock, power ballad, thrash metal, progressive metal)low

    Stentorian's genre classification spans soft rock, power ballad, thrash metal and progressive metal simultaneously, indicating an eclectic, multi-influence approach rather than commitment to a single metal subgenre.

    Source: Wikipedia Stentorian (band)

Local adaptation

Formed in early 2001 and debuting at a concert in the Indian High Commission Auditorium, Dhaka (October 2001), Stentorian is explicitly grouped by Wikipedia among the small founding cohort of bands — alongside Rockstrata, Warfaze, Aurthohin, Artcell, Black, Cryptic Fate, Metal Maze, Arbovirus, Nemesis, Vibe and Kronic — credited with popularizing heavy metal and hard rock in Bangladesh, situating it firmly within the genre's foundational generation.

Sound evolution

Founding period (2001): formed with original lineup Torsha Khan, James Kabir, Shams Alim Biswas, Golam Waise and Bobby Khan; debuted at the Indian High Commission Auditorium in Dhaka. Lineup transition (2003): Golam Waise departed but the band continued performing and composing. Breakthrough period (2005): debut album Protimuhurtey delivered the band's most enduring singles ('Adrissho Juddho 2,' 'Bidrohi,' 'Jolosrot,' 'Anubhuti,' 'Mone pore na'). Later period: continued under co-vocalists Torsha Khan and Tanim Sufyani with an evolved lineup.

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

Debuted at a diplomatic-venue concert (Indian High Commission Auditorium, Dhaka, 27 October 2001) rather than a typical club or festival stage, an atypical launch context among the bands documented in this corpus.

Listener community

Grouped among the founding cohort of Bangladeshi metal/hard rock popularizers alongside Rockstrata, Warfaze, Artcell, Cryptic Fate, Vibe and others, giving it historical standing within the metal scene's origin story even where individual mainstream visibility has been more modest than peers like Artcell or Warfaze.

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