By: Carlos Vaz
ulien Carayon's world is instrumental music, a world with no border as he plays no
specific music style in mind...only what He gets with his instrument matter... He
has almost ten years of guitar playing in his fingers. He's 99% self-taught (the
remaining 1% is the very few instructional books he has bought so far). Julien
Carayon trys to cultivate his own style, composing "non-80's-style-shred music" and
avoiding cliche. "Lethal Alchemy" is the thunderous debut album from the young
talented guitar player Julien Carayon, who were inspired by icons such as "Dream
Theater", "Liquid Tension Experiment", "Planet X", "Steve Vai", "Joe Satriani", "Pat
Metheny", "Jimmy Hendrix"... He knows how to capture the real essence of guitar
sounds, with a variety of musical techniques, showing a high degree of creativity
and sensitivity, creating atmospheric songs with an epic instrumentation. So the
instrumental is very progressive and very intense also, very heavy with a spirit of
metal, adding symphonic elements such as an orchestra, something like an "Epic
Symphonic Progressive Rock Metal". "Lethal Alchemy" has a big sound with a sense of
adventure, while making our ears stand up. All music by Julien Carayon. There are no
words to best describe the seven tracks on the album, but listen "Welcome to My
Nightmare", "Parallel Dimension", "The Good and Evil Sides of Men", "Azur", "Angry
God" and "Dark Jazz Song" and of course you will understand what I really want to
say. Julien Carayon plays all Guitars, Programming, using Ibanez Guitar, Dean
Markley strings and Dunlop Picks. For future music project, Julien Carayon is going
to form a band to play an amazing Progressive Music. Brilliant and indispensable
work, highly recommendable.
Rating:8.5/10
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