Bangladesh Music Evolution
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Alternative/Indie

16 catalogued acts, formed between 1996 and 2018.

1996
First formed
2006
Median formation
2018
Latest formed
100%
Still active

Cited global influences

  • Alice In Chains2
  • Soundgarden2
  • Nirvana1
  • Pearl Jam1
  • Stone Temple Pilots1
  • Deftones1
  • Slipknot1
  • Queens of the Stone Age1

Counted by distinct citing acts. Explore the evidence behind each claim.

Documented localisation

  • Political or social content6
  • Bangla language choice5
  • Folk or Baul motif4
  • Literary or poetic sourcing3
  • Religious or spiritual1
  • Urban vernacular1

Counts of acts whose records document each mechanism — a measure of how the records were written, not of what the music does.

Acts · 16

Raw genre tags in this strand

The tags on these acts’ records that resolve into Alternative/Indie. The strand is the analytical unit; these are what the underlying data actually says.

Alternative RockBlues RockExperimental RockFolk RockFunk RockGroove MetalGrungeGrunge-influencedHeavy MetalIndie RockMainstream RockNu MetalPop RockProgressive MetalProgressive RockPsychedelic RockSoft RockSymphonic Rock

The catalogue was assembled outward from a well-documented metal core, which plausibly biases every strand comparison drawn from it. See data and methods.