Danob came out in 2006. Sreshtho came out in 2002. Ends are Forever came out in 1995. Long, LONG gaps to be sure. But that is what happens when you're a full time career person and a part time musician. And when your drummer keeps skipping out on you. Wll it wasn't really his fault, as he had his career goals and they were all centered on settling in the US. Especially since he was a green card holder, had graduated from a top college there and gotten his MBA from an ivy league university. But all that resulted in the rest of us staying back in Dhaka losing our momentum and generally shooting the breeze as regards music.
I remmeber it was very hard getting into our groove for Danob. In fact the first song we attempted to compose sort of fell apart at the seams. It refused to evolve from its basic primary nature into a complete flowing song. In the end we just discarded the song and moved on. Another thing with Danob, we wanted a very dark album. We wanted to the music to have a groove, but it had to be dark. And complicated. And according to others, experimental. Because i never felt we were experimenting. We were doing what came to us naturally at the time. But later on people who heard the album claimed it was a complicated and experimental album. Those who liked it liked it for these reason. And those who didn't think much of the album did so for these reasons as well. You can't please everyone.
We decided a few months back that we'd start working on the new album. We wouldn't wait another 4 years. And unlike Danob, we hit success with our first song in our first practice session. To be fair it was a riff that we had toyed around with previously, around the time Danob was being recorded, but still it was a good sign that things were flowing smoothly. Since deciding to work on the album, we've jammed quite a lot and we've come up with 4 solid songs. And in fairly quick time too. This time, we want songs that are fun to play and sing, songs that are simple and songs that are melodic. Not melodic in a dark sense (our primary concern in Danob), but just melodic. I guess we had a lot of things to prove in the last album and we feel we have proved them. Now we have nothing to prove. Now we just want to do straight out heavy metal.
Even as i write this, the band's future is in a flux. Things are happening that will steer the band in one dedfinite direction or another. Who knows which will be for the better. But whichever way our fate lies, we are all hanging on for the ride. Because come hell or high water, we will finish the 4th album in the enxt 6 months.
