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Wake Of Ashes

    
       
       
       
     
             
Burning Sun are a power metal band based in Hungary formed in 2022 by bass player Zoltan Papi, releasing the bands debut album 'Wake Of Ashes' in 2023...    
             
...featuring Merciless Law singer Pancho Ireland, along with a host of guest musicians - Alessio Perardi (Airborn), Cederick Forsberg (Blazon Stone, Palantir, Runelord), Edmond Kulcsar (Vadasz), Robert Barabas (Vadasz), and Alena Krakorova (Nocturnal Pestilence). The bands debut album is a ferocious tirade of high speed power metal, nodding heavily in the direction of bands such as Grave Digger, HammerFall, Helloween, and Iron Savior. Eight songs across a blistering thirty three minutes begins with the explosive 'Emaly', roaring outta the blocks at extremely high velocity to leave the speed of light trailing in its wake!. The band are in devastating form here, crushing skulls and breaking bones with a savage barrage of high powered metal - and we're only one song in! The unforgiving pace continues with increased venom for second song 'Bend The World' - the sound of thundering traditional metal perfectly blended with power metal. The band have planted their feet so firmly on the monitors, the monitors have disintegrated under the pressure!     
             
The guitar tone of the iconic NWOBHM evolution makes its weighty presence felt as 'Way Of The Paladin' gets underway, accelerating to top speed and banging heads more ferociously than ever before! The opening triple salvo has been breath taking, Burning Sun marching on with a majesty bigger than some of metals biggest bands! It's like the band are on a mission - a mission to deliver some of the fastest yet most melodic heavy metal the planet has ever seen! Or is that heard! And I for one, reckon they're off to an absolute flyer, 'Wake Of Ashes' making a massive impact on the worldwide metal scene with every metalhead everywhere immediately sitting up to take notice - take notice of a band performing at an extremely high standard! Powering on, the band roar loudly with 'Hundred Lions', the pace and power simply incredible - not to mention the melodious intent! Burning Sun are setting new records with every song that passes by, the band not allowing listeners a single second to take a breather! Increasing the heaviness, 'Templar's Verdict' is a meaner march than any other song heard so far, yet the chorus is a glorious gallop of foot on the monitor metal that every metalhead is gonna go crazy for.    
             
And if you're not fit enough, you ain't gonna make it to the albums end without the help of a respirator - the speed of the album increasing even more with the blistering 'Golden Wings'. The fastest song heard so far, 'Golden Wings' sets new land speed records! Hell, maybe even new air speed records too! Burning Sun are turning out to be a formidable force of nature, breezing through song after song with the utmost of ease, wrecking necks and snapping bones the world over - with the worlds accident and emergency services stretched to their limits! Adopting the mighty swagger of melodic heavy metal, 'Darkfang Keep' is a majestic march of metal, featuring one of the most dramatic upsurges in energy and power at the one minute mark! The gear changing tempo shifting 'Darkfang Keep' is an absolute corker, a gem among gems, and just one of the many highlights on the album. But let's be fair, there are eight songs on offer, so that makes eight highlights right! And at over five minutes in length, the final song 'Under The Burning Sun' is the longest on offer - and is an epic in every sense of the word. From the short atmospheric crescendo to start, through to blistering speed and a massively high melodious intent, 'Under The Burning Sun' has it all. And as a final hurrah, it's simply perfect.    
             
Overall, a red hot scorching array of fast paced and highly head bang-able songs, 'Wake Of Ashes' is a breathless gallop of heavy come power metal.    
             
             
Review by Iron Mathew Collins    
             
Reviewed for Metal Gods TV    
             
             
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