{"id":101187,"date":"2023-07-31T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=101187"},"modified":"2023-08-08T11:30:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T10:30:25","slug":"album-review-burning-sun-wake-of-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-burning-sun-wake-of-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"BURNING SUN – Wake Of Ashes (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BURNING SUN
Wake Of Ashes<\/strong><\/span>
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\nStormspell (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Being the work of Hungarian duo Zolt\u00e0n Papi and Pancho Ireland, Burning Sun is a fantasy-driven metal act embarking on its debut full-length journey.<\/p>\n

Firstly, let\u2019s talk about the elephant in the room, the drum machine. Now, unless you\u2019re a grotty black-death band who lives in the woods or Godflesh, drum programming rarely works, especially when you\u2019re setting up as power metal outfit. So, however bombastic you want to be that awful drumming should have prompted you to find a real drummer before releasing this outing. It\u2019s such a huge flaw here, which is a shame because other than that glaring issue everything is decent. The riffs are aplenty, the guys create some truly speedy and energetic encounters and vocally Pancho does an admirable job, even if on occasion he seems to be reaching just too far. What we don\u2019t need is a mechanical backdrop that just grates.<\/p>\n

Anyway, with that atrocity aside, Wake Of Ashes<\/em> remains a potent force particularly with certain surges (\u2018Bend The World\u2019) which remind me of Helloween mixed with Euro power metal. There is often a fear that with this sort of metal that the tracks may quickly become generic gallops, but there are some variations of pace and some female vocals too. In general though this is a pacey album that would make an ideal soundtrack to a scene involving hordes of black stallions, mounted by glinting riders, galloping through the fjords, and the likes of \u2018Way Of The Paladin\u2019, \u2018Golden Wings\u2019 and the hilariously titled \u2018Darkfang Keep\u2019 all get the blood flowing with their enthusiasm. Steely, macho metal indeed\u2026 now get that drummer.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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