MP3 Lethal Alchemy - METAL: Progressive Metal

Guitarist Julien Carayon's world is instrumental music, a world with no borders, as he plays with no specific music style in mind. The end result is Lethal Alchemy, which straddles the heavy metal, progressive rock and shred musical camps.

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METAL: Progressive Metal, ROCK: Progressive Rock



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French guitarist Julien Carayon's world is instrumental music, a world with no borders, as he plays with no specific music style in mind. The end result is Lethal Alchemy, which straddles the heavy metal, progressive rock and shred musical camps, as evidenced by his influences of Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, Planet X, Joe Satriani.
Carayon explores every tune for all it's worth : the shortest tune is almost seven minutes in length ("Heat"), while "The Good And Evil Sides Of Men" clocks in at over ten minutes. Carayon has spent countless hours listening to his favorite musicians, and on Lethal Alchemy, he's tried to cultivate his own style avoiding cliches.

Carlos Vaz wrote:
"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.
Brilliant and indispensable work, highly recommendable...

guest wrote:
A round of jaw dropping, scintillating electric guitar world marks Lethal Alchemy CD from French speaking guitarist Julien Carayon. In the realm of Planet X and Steve Vai, Carayon blows the roof off with the spaciously recorded, hard rocking instrumental sound of Lethal Alchemy.

Hard rock it may be, but Carayon blends all manners of Euro-flavored jazz-rock and prog-fusion elements into the mix. What’s even more amazing is that Carayon performs all guitars and drum programming, yet it sounds there’s at least 3 people playing together. With his seamless, scary and scorching sounds, Carayon makes this modern day guitar fusion masterwork a pick to click

Robert Silverstein
Twentieth Century Guitar magazine (USA)