User:Saturntheband

Meet The Band
on and the generations yet to come with their music. The five member band, Saturn was formed in 2004 as a result of an experimental jam between current members and brothers, Salman zaidi and Shahbaz zaidi along with their close friend Hasham. The band presently includes Salman zaidi on lead guitars and backing vocals, Shahbaz zaidi on vocals, Shahbaz asad on drums, Aashir rayyan khan on base guitars and Usman ahmed khan on rhythm guitars. Saturns debut song "Raakh" was an amalgamation of the rough cutriffs created by Salman, further reshaped and transformed by Hasham. Through "Raakh", Saturn stepped into the Islamabad music scene, thus giving Pakistan its first ever progressive rock band. Saturn revolves around the musical genre of progressive rock. Saturns perspective is to experiment with progressive rock and to merge and mix it with different genres of music. Saturn is rated as one of the top bands of Islamabad, along side bands like Qayaas and Irtaash. Having played more then a 100 live shows over the years, all over Pakistan. Saturn has opened for most of the major artists of Pakistan including the likes of Ali azmat, Jal, Noori, Call, EP, Ali zafar and The Mekaal hassan band and many more. The lead guitarist of saturn, Salman zaidi has played sessions for artists like Zeejhja fazli, Irtaash, Najam sheraz and is currently playing sessions for Uzair Jaswal.

The Vision : Naya Din
The band as of present will be releasing their debut album in the month of April 2013, titled Naya Din, revolves around the current situations faced by Pakistani's all over Pakistan, targeting various social and youth oriented issues. Freedom of speech, actions and a creation of a catastrophic chain reaction that endorses the idea of a free, logical and a stable generation, is the vision behind the album. With an out of the box approach and a straight forward, simplistic perspective, Saturn undoubtedly stands as a band, as young individuals and as Pakistani's looking to make a difference and to influence their generation and the generations to follow.