Ibrahim Ahmed Kamal is a Bangladeshi guitarist, songwriter and producer. He is the lead guitarist and the founder of the Hard rock band Warfaze. He has been the band's guitarist and composer for three decades. In his early days in Warfaze, he used to play bass. In the late 1985, he took the role of playing guitar. He had appeared on all the studio albums of Warfaze. In 2003, he left the band for Aurthohin, where he played guitars. He appeared in two albums of the band, including অসমাপ্ত in 2008 and অসমাপ্ত ২ in 2011. He also won the Channel i best band of the year award with the band. In 2011, he returned to Warfaze and recorded their seventh studio albumসত্য . In 2018, he retired from Warfaze due to his illness. The Daily Star described Kamal as a "Bona Fide Legend".
Career
Warfaze (1984–2018)
In the mid 1984, Kamal formed the heavy metal band Warfaze with his friends, Bappi, Mir and Naimul and Helal. Kamal used to play bass. In the late 1985, as both guitarist Mir and Naimul left the band, Kamal took up the guitar duties. And, he invited Rashed, Babna Karim and Monirul Alam Tipu tp join the band as a vocalist, bassist and drummer, respectively. In the late 1980s, they used to cover songs of Deep Purple, Whitesnake and Dokken. There is also a video of them covering Deep Purple's "Highway Star" in 1988. In 1989, vocalist Rashed left the band due to his personal problems. Kamal recruited Sunjoy as the new vocalist in 1990. They started recording songs for their self titled debut album in the Sargam Studio, Dhaka. They released their first album in 1991. Since then, Kamal has appeared on all the albums of the band. Most of the riffs and solos of Warfaze are written by him. Some of his best guitar solos and riffs include "বসে আছি ", "বিচ্ছিন্ন আবেগ ", "স্বাধিকার ", "একটি ছেলে ", opening riff and solo in the song "জীবন ধারা ", "অসামাজিক ", "তোমাকে " etc.
Aurthohin (2006–2014)
After releasing Moharaj album, Kamal took a break from Warfaze in 2005. Kamal lost his interest in music. He decided to leave the music industry permanently until he was persuaded by Sumon to join Aurthohin. He agreed to join the band immediately. He was still though a member of Warfaze, when he joined Aurthohin. He also appeared in Warfaze's compilation album"পথচলা " in 2007. He played guitars in two studio albums of the band, including "অসমাপ্ত " and "অসমাপ্ত ২ " in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He played lead guitar for the band along Shishir. In 2014, he officially left the band to return in Warfaze. He won the Channel i best band of the year award with Aurthohin in 2008.
Illness and Retirement
In 2010, Kamal told the doctor that he was suffering from arm and shoulder problems eventually it turned out that his left arm and shoulder was becoming weak. Doctors told him to stop playing guitars, but he didn't think of retiring or stop performing on live shows then. In 2017 December. Kamal had to announced his inability to perform on stage due to shoulder and finger injuries for indefinite time. In 2018 March. Kamal went back on playing on stage after recovering from frozen shoulder. But still when he feels good, he practices with Warfaze and also performs live in stage.
