Dying Sun

Great obscure soulfull cover painted by Thierry Demarez!
This french band plays a mix of heavy metal/ thrash metal with death metal and black metal touches.
There are Leads sounding in the old KING DIAMOND’s vein. They’ve got some obvious old MEGADETH’s « Peace sells... but who’s buying » and « Rust in peace » riffing influences. Good sounding melodic heavy metal influences in the vein of old IRON MAIDEN (« Powerslave » and all the good old Maiden albums! plus « A real dead one » and « A real live one ») and KING DIAMOND (« Abigail » for some high pitched melodies). The clear vocalized 90’s Heavy metal choruses sound good.
Sometimes, the leading parts wouldn’t be so far from the JOE SATRIANI’s ones when he’s into his heavier and most metallic feelings. A little break with a technical guitar reminded me of YNGWIE MALMSTEEM’s first CD (the best one!!). Some few cooler parts could make think the soft Heavy metal bastards about ANGRA’s first CD for the nice riffs, the cool clear vocals and some nice breaks.
There are a few death metal tremolo riffs that are taken on a mid tempo timing with some double bass drums. There are athmospheric parts with clear vocals à la EMPEROR’s 2nd CD.
Small rockin’ touches in the vein of AC/DC (AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!).
One could speak about ANNIHILATOR touches here and here, but it’s not be an obvious influence for sure.
Fuck you, these guys must be big MEGADETH fans!!
There are a few entertaining tracks that include some cool ideas, YRKOON sounds better than some heavy metal revival shit bands that are released nowadays, but this album that sounds very often bound in the 90’s isn’t one I’d absolutely urge you to check out. It’s a cool band with well experimented musicians.