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About

THE ROADS BAND

We are Rock & Blues band from Bangladesh. We started our journey back in 2012 with great passion and hope to contribute in Bangla rock music scenario. The band was originally formed by Zaki Mahmud & Aapel Mahmud two guitarist of the band. Zaki mahmud also the Band Manager & Band Leader. Aapel Mahmud is the main Lyricist & Composer.

They both act as skeleton and soul of the band. Their dedication and hard work for music is undeniable. Later more musicians/members were joined in the band and made the musical journey of The Roads more enrich with their talents. . The present line makes the band creative than ever.

The band is mostly influenced by the band from 80’s and 90’s band of Bangladesh and foreign. LRB, Nagar-Baul, Miles, Feedback, souls which are the prominent Bangla rock band. Besides lots of foreign band influenced them to compose songs like Deep Purple, Scorpion, Led-Zeppelin, DIO, Dream Theatre, G’n’R White Snake and so on. Music is the only way of salvation. By remembering this moto this band doing their music with great compassion and vision to rule in Bangla rock music scenario.

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Zaki Mahmud is one of the founders of the Band. He is the Guitarist and Band Manager & Band Leader. He started his musical journey in 1995. Till 2000 he professionally engaged in music as guitarist. In mid 2000 he changed his professional track and joined in Banking Profession. But his passion for Music & Guitar not dimmed at all. In 2013 he met Appel Mahmud, who re-sparked is musical passion and they both dedicated to take forward their passion and formed “The Roads”. Besides his career as Banker is perusing his strong passion for music till now. Basically he musically influenced by Metal, Hard Rock, Rock & Blues genre but he is fan of all sorts of good music. His favorite Musicians/Bands are Deep Purple, Dire States, Metallica, Doors, Guns’N’Roses, Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, DIO, Ozzy, only to name a few from the many more. In Bangladesh he loves Ayub Bachu, Rock Strata, War Faze, Miles, Azam Khan and many more.

Aapel Mahmud is the lead Singer and Guitarist of the band.  he started his musical journey since 2000.From an early age, he was involved in painting, sports and music. His father and older brother helped him a lot. The first guitar of his life was given to him by his father. He formed his first band with a few friends of him in 2002.He is also a Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer, Music Composer. He has worked with many Artists on stage and studios. His favorite Band and Artist is, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Robby Krieger, B.B. King, Ronnie James Dio, Guns N’ Roses, The Doors, Rainbow, Nirvana, Dire Straits, Carlos Santana, Ritchie Blackmore, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Ayub Bachchu and many more. He loves his country very much and proud of the culture of his country. Aapel Mahmud thinks that, Bangla rock music represents Bangladesh to the world.

Shirajul Munna, a young blood musician who has started his music career since 2010 keeping two sticks of drum in his hand. After gathering a long period of hands of experience, he joined the band “The Roads” as a professional drummer and percussionist in 2020. Riche Black Moore the legendary guitarist of “Dee purple” and Rony James Dio the great vocalist of “ Dio” motivated him to start his career as a musician. This energetic and young talented musician always follow 80s and 90s rock and heavy metal bands like “Led-zappelin”, “metallica”, “iron maiden”, “Deep purple” as his inspiration from the beginning of his career. Besides the top Bangladeshi rock bands like LRB, Rock strata, Souls, Artcel” and so many bands has influenced him deeply from where he feels to bring a dynamic change in music industry by putting his heart core contribution.

Appel Mahmud Labu begins his musical journey in 2009. His elder brother is a guitarist so his brother was the first mentor of him. He learned everything from his brother at an early stage. Labu started playing guitar for the very beginning and then he shifted to learning keyboards and established himself as a keyboardist. Bryan Adams, Cliff Richard, Lobo, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Yanni, Dream Theater, Jordan Rudess, Modern Talking, LRB, Bon Jovi, Fuad Nasir Babu, Manam Ahmed, Rasel Ali, Asad is one of his favorite bands and Artist’s. He feels that The Roads is not just a band, it’s a family. He wants to enrich the band with his talent and hard work.

Rain, started playing bass in the band He started playing at an early age and also gather classical knowledge, he started playing music professionally in 2005 His uncle used to play flute, that’s where his inspiration started, He likes Coldplay, Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and a variety of rock music. And that melody composition lyric is fairly experienced in all of these Many of his dreams about music always want to make healthy music He wants to win the music of Bangladesh with his band He wants to win his band in Bangladesh and win the love of the people together.