When Metal music in the Middle East Is mentioned, it normally brings surprise and disbelief. Little do people know, the Middle East has a growing scene of music. Not the usual Bollywood, but Metal.

A roster named Metal Asia are working on bringing out one of the best compilations coming out of the Asia Region to support the metal scene and metal bands from the Middle East including the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. {Read More…}

Exclusive Coverage for KoolMuzone by Mobeen Ansari

An ETZ event.

Performers: Farhan Khan, Rapsterados, Zuj, Qayaas and Ali Azmat

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Artists: Ali Azmat, Qayaas, Rapsterados, Farhan Khan, Saturn and Zuj

Venue: Lok Virsa, Islamabad

Date: 13th Feb ’10

Time: 8:00 PM

Tickets available at Hi-voltz, Illusions, Papa Sallis, Cinepax, Bombeat, Lok Virsa and CJ

By

Sadaf Fayyaz

1. Bachana (Bilal Khan)

With almost 65, 000 plus views and 196 ratings of the song on You Tube. The LUMS guy deserves first ranking with his hit single. He writes, composes and sings his songs himself, with lot of melancholy in his songs. The fresh talent is not bound to red tape limitations; Bilal proves it by hitting on You Tube, with his deep and mesmerizing song.

2. Chue Chue ( Zain ul Abideen)

Simple words like awesome song, awesome vocals, awesome video, awesome music and awesome lyrics define new talent Zain as one of the top five debuts.

3. Mein Chala (Nouman Javaid)

With a song for Bollywood Film Jashan, Nouman delivers his moaning and powerful vocals with very soft guitar touches in the song. The deep grief and sad touch goes well with the lyrics.

4. Maan Lo (Zohaib kazi featuring Zara Madani & Naad e Ali)

After a long time, it’s a brilliant attempt to some soulful music.

5. Tanha (Qayaas)

With the video of song “Tanha”, Qayaas has really done a good job. The song has more instrumentation with a dark touch to it. With higher tempos added afterwards, Tanha turns out to be a heavy rocking hit with strong riffs and drums. Umeed is a comparatively lighter track.

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Qayaas is a Pakistani band that started when Khurram Waqar (previously in the successful bands, Knumb and Entity Paradigm) heard Umair Jaswal at a studio, shooting a show for ARY Musik that involved promoting upcoming bands in Islamabad. Umair was already in a band called Silversmoke, a band that is popular, with rocking songs such as ‘Zakham’ and ‘Soch’. For Khurram, his band Knumb weren’t progressing, due to a band member living far away. Knumb even made an album, but it is on hold. Khurram then contacted Umair, both being very enthusiastic with working together. The line up was complete when other members came into the scene. The line-up is Umair Jaswal (also in Silversmoke) as the vocalist, Khurram Waqar (from Knumb and Entity Paradigm) as the lead guitarist, Sarmad Ghafoor (from Rungg) on rhythm guitars, Sherry on bass and Fifu on drums, who were both from the band Surge. All members have had musical experience, combined to make a band unique in diversity and professionalism. With Qayaas complete, they could now make a name in Pakistan’s music scene. {Read More…}

Recently, we reported that Qayaas will not be playing in the Noori gig due to miss-management and payment issues. We recommended you to get the refund before the concert starts due to expected mishaps. Noori did perform in the event but the organizers did anything and everything to screw it up.

A friend at Pakiology wrote an article about what really happened at the event and willingly agreed to share that with the viewers of KoolMuzone.

The music scene in Islamabad is down due to the unprofessional organizers who are ruining the concerts in the capital city. The fans are completely disappointed by the cancellations of concerts and certain events of bands not showing up in the concert. {Read More…}

Qayaas was supposed to play live tonight along with Noori and Jal at PNCA. Due to negligence of organizers, Qayaas will be unable to perform. Recently, in a show Ep’s absence from the concert due to untimely promised payments by the organizers, caused violence in the crowd which resulted in thrashing of instruments and system. As lots of people bought tickets for Qayaas the disappearance of Qayaas may cause violence too. It is highly recommended that you get your passes refunded before the concert.

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After a long time noori is performing in Islooo…we have always had the coolest shows there so DONT MISS IT!!!

Venue: PNCA behind Marriot
Date: Thursday, 20th August, 2009
Time: 9:00 pm
Contact: 0300 7304313
Tickets available at Illusion, Ripples, Civil Junction, T2 and KHIVA Restaurant

Underground bands go into a swoon

ISLAMABAD: Underground bands not only sound like no other bands — they give concerts like no other bands and specially in settings rarely used by other groups.

Saturday night’s performances were the latest in a series of open-air concerts where artistically inclined youngsters allured their audiences with their unconventional and contemporary numbers.

The Sweet Leaf City Jam marked the opening of the new The Rock Musicarium restaurant across the water front behind Rawal Lake – and now a place that offers young artists a space to reveal their musical qualities. {Read More…}

Monday, July 27, 2009
Schezee Zaidi

Islamabad

A new musical spot ‘Rock Musicarium’ opened here Saturday night with a spectacular display of jamming sessions and homegrown music, with a stellar line up from Coven, Hash, Farhad (from Overload), Shehzad Hameed, Simt, Qiyaas, Natasha, Arieb Azhar, Zeejah Fazli and Ali Hamdani. {Read More…}

For now, I am sharing few of the videos of Sweetleaf City Jam. I recently shared few pictures of the jam. More videos, audios and pictures will be added soon. Thanks Shoaib Chudhry for uploading these videos.

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The Sweetleaf City Jam this year was surely the biggest Jam session ever in Islamabad if not in Pakistan. It was also the soft launch of the new hangout spot for musicians “THE ROCK” (Zeejah‘s vision and execution).

It featured performances by:

• Ali Hamdani
• Natasha Ejaz
• Sallahudin
• Hash
• Arieb Azhar
• Haroon Shahid with Farhad Humayun
• Zeejah Fazli
• Qayaas
• Heavy Weather (Shahzad Hameed)
• Co-ven

Enjoy the pictures of the concert for now. Songs and videos will be added soon. More pictures coming soon as well.

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