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6.5
- Band:
Burning Sun - Duration: 00:38:11
- Available since: 22/08/2025
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Metalizer Records
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The second album for the Hungarians Burning Sun arrives, Eastern Europe combo behind which we find the bassist and composer Zoltan Papi and the talented guitarist and singer of Ireland.
Just two years after the debut “Wake of Ashes”, the Magyar duo with this “remuneration” starts from the heroine and concept of the previous album, recurring the champion Emaly, this time grappling with the moral conflict that often accompanies the campaigns of revenge as his, addressed against a Negromante accident whose cult caused the death of his loved ones. Dramatic and internally conflicting themes, therefore, which should find correspondence in an equally suffered and expressive music.
After repeated listening to this album, we can say that Zoltan and Ireland have managed, at least in part, to move in this direction: the band's sound appears partially emancipated by the frantic and too uniform rhythms of the debut. Although the matrix remains firmly anchored to the Teutonic Power scene of the late 90s, “Retribution” presents itself as a less monolithic work than the debut, characterized by a greater variety and a pleasant inclination towards the territories of classic metal, in addition to the usual Power à la Helloween/Grave Digger.
Thus was born an album that we can define more on fire, crossed by fast passages (“by the light”, “open your eye”), but also from more elaborate or emotionally loaded moments, like the successful “aftermath”, which starts in a delicate way and then evolving into a traditional heavy from the flavor to the Ronnie James God; Or the most atmospheric “Cold Winds”, which shows us our heroine in the middle of one of its maximum crisis, however telling the passage with less emphasis on the speed and greater attention to the epiticity of the situation.
Precisely this epic vein perhaps represents the main key of the improvement of ours: abandoned the abuse of the rhythms in double case and found a more effective way to enhance the ringing voice of Ireland through more dramatic and felt passages, the Hungarian duo has in fact taken an important step forward towards a more coherent and mature proposal.
A few naivety remains: the aforementioned “Open Your Eyes” still sounds quite banal, and also the final “Redemption” would have deserved a more glorious explosion rather than limiting itself to the classic pestic song; But overall, as a second album, “remuneration” we can say that it works and convinces.
The history of the eighty Emaly becomes more credible; And the music of the duo is more shaped on the personal nuances of Zoltan's narrative: a good, in a product that seems to want to follow in the footsteps of the old rhapsody, without however having the attitude and the cinematographic afflatus.
Waiting for a third chapter, however we can safely promote them and recommend them, at least as regards this work.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
