In the first gigs of Pooyan & Sanam, a single called “We Are Freaks” was born. The basis of this song was generated beforehand, but it still didn’t reach the maturity it required. After Sanam started creating vocal line & writing lyrics, the structure of the song completely changed and the title was altered to “Runaway” which was the starting point of an energetic era for the band. Afterwards, the gigs were held frequently. At this stage, Pooyan composed the songs and Sanam arranged vocal lines for them and upon spending a year like this, in 2008, 5grs debut album was recorded, mixed, mastered and released. But this process is not a routine one in Iran, since no Metal band formerly was able to release an official original album and this created complication for the band, to the extent that Pooyan calls it “the most complicated procedure overall”. Luckily, Pooyan met a publisher through a studio-owner, but even by having that opportunity; it took him 6 long months and great deal of money & energy to release the album on 25.07.2008 in the underground scene. The next important event was a one-day exhibition held with audio/video products of 5grs in Tarrahan Azad Gallery with 600 visitors. In the said exhibition “Access Denied” album, together with the first music video of the band called “Judgement Day” which was one of the songs in the album and the commercial T-shirt were put on sale. The first video was composed by Pooyan & Mazdak, arrangement of Pooyan & directed by Pedram Etemadi as an animated video & was aired on PMC & GEM TV channels. What was strange in the video was absence of Sanam, since appearance of females as singers & performers is against the rules. In this regard Pooyan Madadi stated “Everybody said Pooyan was really selfish, but the truth was that she refused to appear in the video herself.” the debut album consisted of 9 tracks which overall was 51 minutes. Theme of lyrics which were written by Sanam was basically dark social & political criticisms. Among these songs “Judgement Day” & “Access Denied” were popular ones. Some guest musicians assisted the band in Access Denied: classic guitar player Mazdak Sadeghi, Violinist Kiarash Ghorbani. Sanam performed the vocals & Pooyan Madadi played electrical guitar, composed, arranged & programmed the songs and even produced the albums. Pooya Abbasian was the graphic designer who assisted the band regarding album cover and in designing them the works of art of Pooyan’s dad, Mohammad Ali Madadi, was used as the main theme and the name of the band was the impression of one of his paintings as well. Pooya designed the logo of the band and did the lateral designs too. Another peak following Access Denied was radio BBC interview with the band in a program called “Children of Revolution” in which the works & struggles of the band and in particular “Funeral” single was discussed and was aired in the first episode of the program.