Review: Suns of Sorath “Flowers of the Lily”

Suns of Sorath “Flowers of the Lily”

Denver is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado. This isn’t very huge city in scale of the States because there live ‘only’ a little less than 700.000 people. But there’s something that makes this city special in whole country (except nature, of course – from downtown to foothills of the Rocky Mountains is approximately 19 km for example). Denver is the highest major city in the United States and its official elevation is exactly 1 mile (1609,3 meters) above sea level.

Metal bands from the city and in general region aren’t well-known like these from Florida, New York or California. But it doesn’t mean that they don’t play interesting music. Well, judging from SUNS OF SORATH it’s even contrary! This band is actually only a duet at the moment. The fact is that on gigs Cody (bass, vocals and since this year keyboards) and Evan (guitars and since this year backing vocals) are supported by second guitarist David since 2013, but they still have to use drum machine. There were both second guitarist (Tanner) and a drummer (Brent) earlier, but they left the band. By the way, SUNS OF SORATH was born in 2009.

Anyway, ‘Flowers of the Lily’ is their debut album, but not debut release in general. After reading this very lyrical title you probably suppose that SUNS OF SORATH play some sweet melodies with candy riffs, a lot of pop-like keyboards and singing. But you’re fucking wrong! What we have here is a pure Metal. Guys call their creativity Progressive, Black, Death and Avant Garde Metal. Well, with this last term I strongly disagree. This is possibly because it connotes with some crap which has nothing common with Metal, but musicians from some magical reasons call it Metal. Anyhow, I think there’s more Death than Black in music of our American friends. I can easily hear influences of other styles of music. Especially in bass track you can find strong inspiration of Jazz – it’s also about technique of playing, as I hear. Riffs are intensive and broken as well. Evan changes them often, too – for some people it can be even too much. I mean, it happens really often on this field and also here you’ll be able to hear the fascination of other kind of music than only Metal. There’s a lot of technique in this, of course. Drum is programming also in interesting way and someone with not so perfect pitch can even think that some drummer participated in session. In general, everything’s in rather middle tempo and there’re no crazy speed-ups or stuff like that. Growling is rather in vein of Death Metal, but there are moment when it change.

To sum up I have to tell you that music of this duet from Colorado isn’t very easy-going. Well, it can be even quite increasingly complex to listen to – structures of the songs makes this. There’re many relishes, sometimes piano play (but not in middle of songs) and generally it can be just too sick for some people. But I like this very much!!!