Naweed Kabir
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Naweed mid-scream at the snare, sticks crossed, hair thrown across his face.

I play thrash with Karmant, and for ten years I’ve filmed the drummers of Bangladesh’s metal scene from behind their kits.

Behind the kit since 2014.

Play Riot in Uniform on Bandcamp

Karmant has played new wave thrash out of Dhaka since 2016. I took the throne in 2020.

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Riot in Uniform

EP · 1 April 2021

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  1. Nuclear Outbreak 5:11
  2. Riot in Uniform 5:11
  3. Greed 4:07
  4. General Destroyer 5:26

Named for 2018, when a speeding bus killed two students in Dhaka and school kids in uniform took the roads, stopping traffic and checking drivers’ licences themselves, because nobody else was. Four songs, out three years later.

Hack & Slash

Album · written · Coming

  1. Smelling DeathSingle
  2. Hyena
  3. Slaughter Excursion
  4. Prisoners of War
  5. Skull Grenade
  6. Zip-tied, GuttedSingle
  7. Magma Sky
  8. Hack & Slash

A life ended before it began refuses to go. It returns as the General Destroyer and works upward: the strongman, the institution that blesses him, the machinery that made them both. Eight tracks of Bangladeshi thrash, written as one story, still sealed.

From my throne.

From the drum cam, over Naweed's shoulder: the whole kit under stage lights, his head thrown back mid-beat. Play: Karmant, Slaughter Excursion
Karmant · Slaughter Excursion Live drum cam, 2026 · 1:36 Filmed over my shoulder, the way I film every drummer on Cloven Hoof BD.

Every part starts slow, one bar at a time, until it sits. Then it gets played loud.

Naweed facing the camera in a black shirt, hair down past his shoulders.

Only the kit sees it.

Life is hard enough on its own. Whatever is left over goes into the kit: the aggression, and the rest of what I’d rather not carry around. It doesn’t fix anything. It was never going to.

Nobody needs to see the dark side of a person.
The kit doesn’t care.

On stage

Mid-song through stage smoke, hair flying above the cymbals.
At the kit under stage lights, a brick wall behind.
Shirtless at the kit in a dark room, the sticks a blur.
Playing in front of a wall painted with skulls.
Head down under a China cymbal at Bangladesh Thrashfest.
Behind the kit in a red-lit room, mid-stroke, hair thrown back.
Mid-song through stage smoke, hair flying above the cymbals.
At the kit under stage lights, a brick wall behind.
Shirtless at the kit in a dark room, the sticks a blur.
Playing in front of a wall painted with skulls.
Head down under a China cymbal at Bangladesh Thrashfest.
Behind the kit in a red-lit room, mid-stroke, hair thrown back.
At the kit under red light in a patterned shirt, looking down past the cymbals.
Head thrown back at the kit in teal light, amps stacked behind.
Both sticks raised over the kit on a dark stage, a banner hung behind.
In profile at the kit, a stick raised past a cymbal.

01 / 10
  1. Project Rattlehead, a Megadeth tribute Joined this year
  2. Bangladesh Thrashfest 2024, Dhaka
  3. Bangladesh Thrashfest, National Library Auditorium, Dhaka The first concert in the country given entirely to thrash
  4. Kolkata Metal Festival, edition 2, Kolkata Co-headlined
  5. Sick Tour II, Kolkata Extreme Metal Fest Co-headlined, the only band from Bangladesh
  6. Tribute to Legends, Liberation War Museum, Dhaka
  7. BAMBA, 50 Years of Independence programme, Dhaka As a guest
Every date, on Karmant’s site
A clear acrylic trophy cut as a drum head, reading Champion of Grooves, standing on a kitchen counter on top of its certificate.

Champion of Grooves.

On 21 September 2025, I won the drum solo contest at Drum Master Class Session 01. The judge was Syed Ziaur Rahman Turjo, drummer of Miles, who also ran the session.

It has been on the kitchen counter ever since.

DMC Session 01 · organised by Team Alpha

Bonus demos

Stereo Flash

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We played heavy metal the way the early eighties did, raised on Maiden, Priest, Sabbath and Motörhead. We covered Iron Maiden, Virtue, Tokyo Blade and many more bands from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

Stereo Flash will always be standing strong, holding up the fist of steel high!

The band’s bio

It stood until 2017.

Stereo Flash, five of them, standing in a narrow Dhaka alley in denim and band shirts. Play: Stereo Flash, Breaking the Law
Stereo Flash · Breaking the Law Judas Priest cover · live
  1. 1 Breaking the Law Judas Priest cover · live
  2. 2 The Wicker Man Iron Maiden cover · rehearsal, 1 July 2017
Stereo Flash at rehearsal, 1 July 2017: two guitars, a bass and the singer facing the kit.

Side B: Cloven Hoof BD

Ten years of drum cams, shot and posted by one person. The first channel of its kind in Bangladesh.

Seen from above and behind: Naweed inside a studio kit ringed with cymbals.
Recording the drums for Hack & Slash on 16 April 2026, the day before my engagement. I recorded eight tracks in eight hours.

  1. October 2016

    I started in October 2016, pointing a camera at drummers from the one angle nobody else takes: over the shoulder, inside the cockpit. Every drummer has a universe of their own back there. You see the part the way it actually gets played.

  2. Since then

    Underground bands and established ones. I film, cut, mix and upload every video myself, and have done for ten years.

  3. 2023

    In 2023, the channel was one of four organisers of Bangladesh Thrashfest, the first concert in the country given entirely to thrash.

From the drum cam, over the drummer's shoulder: Miles on stage at St. Joseph, the kit and the crowd beyond it. Play: Miles, Neela
Miles · Neela Live at St. Joseph, 2017 · drum cam The channel’s most-watched video. Turjo on drums: eight years later he judged the contest I won.
  1. 1 Neela Miles · Live at St. Joseph, 2017 · drum cam
  2. 2 Prem Cryptic Fate · Dhaka Rock Fest, 2022 · the whole band, multicam
  3. 3 Mitther Agrashon Powersurge · Headbangers Paradise, 2022 · drum cam
  4. 4 Infested Cadaver Nekrohowl · DMF, 2017 · drum cam

The kit

The TAMA Starphonic Brass snare, its badge and chrome lugs up close.
Snare TAMA Starphonic Brass, 14 × 6
The Paiste RUDE Reign Power Ride, 22 inches, hammered bronze.
Ride Paiste RUDE Reign Power Ride 22″, the Dave Lombardo ride
Naweed crouched between two of his cymbals, the Meinl China at left and the Paiste ride at right.
China Meinl Classics Custom Extreme Metal China 18″
The Pearl Demon XR double pedal, its two beaters up.
Double pedal Pearl Demon XR
Crash
Paiste Alpha 19″
Pedals
Pearl Demon XR, TAMA Iron Cobra Power Glide, TAMA Speed Cobra
Triggers
Footblaster pedal triggers, Roland TM-2 trigger module
Snare stand
TAMA Roadpro
Clamp
Gibraltar
Throne
Porkpie Big Boy
Heads
Remo
Sticks
Vic Firth
Drum cam
GoPro HERO8 Black

End of side B.

Naweed from behind, shirtless, sticks tucked into a bullet belt, one hand raised.

That’s the tape. Nothing after this but hiss, so take one of these on the way out.

On the kit