Asad started his music career in 1987 with The Barbarians, which is regarded by many as Pakistan's first rock band. The band's first single "Yeh Zindagi Hai" (This is Life) set the foundation of Pakistani rock.
Over the years, Asad has done extensive session work contributing his guitar work and compositions to albums by Vital Signs, Ali Zafar, Haroon, Sajjad Ali and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan to name a few. In 2017 he released Rebirth his first solo album which is also Pakistan’s first all guitar instrumental album. Animal was released as the first single and got heavy airplay on radio and TV. On August 14 he also released a guitar rendition of the Pakistani National Anthem. Rebirth the title track was released as the second single and video on December 18. Will You was released as the third and final single on July 4th 2018. Rebirth has had 500,000 downloads and streams on iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music and over 800 online platforms. This makes it the largest selling guitar instrumental album in South East Asia.
Asad released his second solo album Severe Cuts in July 2020. The first single, “Dream Of Right Now” was sent to Radio on 14th July 2020.
