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Thunder Band

The Beginning

Thunder, is an iranian rock band that formed in 1998 by Ardavan Anzabipour (singer-songwriter) and it is the first iranian rock band with English lyrics who get official permission to perform in public in Iran.
Thunder began their first concert, by playing cover version of well-known rock music(March 1999) and the first period of Thunder activity ended up to its first instrumental album in 2000. Between 2002-2009 Ardavan’s involvement in Exir and Kahtmayan (the first official Metal bands in Iran)
did not leave him with enough time to pursue his projects with Thunder. Finally in winter 2010, he turned back to his Rock-Country idea in form of new line up of Thunder.

Line Up

From 2010 to 2015 due to shift from Country-Rock to Hard Rock, some changes happened in Thunder’s line up but main core of the band remained firm . Bita Sadeghi (Guitar 2010) , Aydin Anzabipour (Drums 2011) Mohammad Barzideh (2011) by playing Guitar, Harmonica, Mandolin, Percussions and Keyboards. Also from the winter of 2016 Kaveh Vaziri joined the band as a Bass player.

Concerts

Thunder performs only original tracks and they try to perform a proper rock show with acts, light and good sound in their live performances, which rarely allowed and have seen before in Iran. By summer of 2022,Thunder has performed over 27 concerts (40 shows) in Iran and abroad (for example Ukraine, Turkey, U.A.E. and Cyprus). In winter of 2014 they get permission to play it’s 10th Concert as a Iranian Official Rock Band with English Lyrics (Jan. 2014). They have produced 6 DVD of their concerts that most of these performances could be find in the Youtube channel ” Iranian Thunder Band” .

Albums

Between 2010 and 2014, Thunder could be called as a Country-Rock band and their first album “ Rockin’ Man” (2015) sounds like that (acoustic guitar played main roll in almost all songs) .By summer of 2015 the band shifted to hard rock gradually and second album “Once Again” (2016) is complete Rock -in some point even Hard rock- album. More aggressive and critic lyrics with changes in Rhythm Guitars from Acoustic to electric! But after 30 months work prohibition in Fall of 2016 they came back on stage with new idea. The third album supposed to be written in Farsi not English! Throughout 2017-2018 they worked on writing and recording their new album. “Below Absolute Zero ” was mixed mastered in Sept. 2019 and Thunder recorded a “live in studio” Project in Des. 2019.
Fourth Album of the band was written in 2019-2021 during the Corona Pandemic and harsh atmosphere in Iran, in Metal Style, with Persian Lyrics.