at the time when rock strata and its contemporary heavy metal bands were playing heavy metal, other traditional musicians and bands were still sceptic about the musicianship of the members of these bands. the metal music itself was laughed at by others and sneered at as being loud noise instead of music. however, as the metal movement gained momentum and the name rock strata was becoming more popular and frequent in the bangladesh band music scene, the founder of the bangladesh musical bands association (bamba) were becoming progressively more inquisitive about them and other upcoming metal bands. at this time, rock strata and their contemporaries warfaze, in dhaka, and aces were the only well-known bands in the heavy metal genre and a scramble was made to include them into the association. the hunt was on – and mac haque (feedback, maqsood o' dhaka) who was the president of bamba at that time, got hold of the musicians from rock strata. after a long, eventful, and sometimes not very congenial debate with other members (many of whom thought that these new kids were uncultured, long-haired, undisciplined loudmouths, not to mention disrespectful) of bamba, mac did succeed in managing to induct them into the association. from then on rock strata started performing regularly in most of the bamba shows. the initial resentment of the traditional band musicians towards rock strata continued to show itself during some of the bamba shows. one of the problems that had plagued the band from the beginning is the use of double bass drum kit. at the time only rock strata used double bass drums for their songs during concerts. this caused an overwhelming amount of misery to rock strata to get a double bass kit on stage, since no other band in bangladesh had a complete double bass kit. the band had to borrow and put together two different drum kits to make a double bass kit. often the sound system company would have only one bass drum microphone and/or equaliser, which made the two bass drums sound radically different. another issue that posed significant problem was the presence of two guitarists and no keyboardists in the band. in all of the multi-band shows rock strata had serious difficulty in locating two guitar amplifiers to put on stage. despite all this problems, the journey of rock strata with bamba was, although not consistently smooth, but a rather successful one.