She appeared on many projects including Beautiful Sin with Uli Kusch. She has recently recorded for the new Ayreon CD « 01011001 » and has been chosen as the new female vocalist for the third Frameshift release. Magali is a contributing author in Jaime Vendera’s Raise Your Voice 2nd edition.
Samuel played, wrote and recorded with different bands and projects including Uli Kusch’s Beautiful Sin (with members from Masterplan and Pagan’s Mind) or german band Over Us Eden. He collaborated on albums with people from Primal Fear, Annihilator, James LaBrie-Band, etc…
Renaut has also a huge studio and live experience, touring with bands like Napalm Death, Hatesphere, Born From Pain or The Casualties. He has been involved in bands like Vhan, Virtual or Spirittales.
François Brisk installed his name on the metal scene with the well-known band Dyslesia. He toured with bands like Stratovarius, Rage, Elegy, Iron Maiden, Helloween or Symphony x.
One of the biggest and most challenging new acts in 2008 is the power metal band:
VIRUS IV, founded by Samuel Arkan in 2006 with the talented vocalist
Magali Luyten of Beautiful Sin fame or the lastest Ayreon album « 01011001 ».
"Dark Sun" is the debut album from this outfit. On this record however, she proves a true team player adding her talents to the immaculate classic metal of her band companions.
The band shows their affection for true power metal from the American continent, reminiscent to good old
Vicious Rumors, Annihilator, Warrior and Warlord, injected with the new found élan of European metal acts like
At Vance and Hammerfall. On top the band has been fuelled by the driving force and nu grooves of acts like
Disturbed and Oomph! Meaning; it is melodic hard driving metal with a forceful drive!
VIRUS IV has a mega melodic music and atmosphere, sometimes gothic with supporting keyboard colouring the mood or jazzy schematics with some great percussion work. All with intense power and lots of drama, the music of the band sounds from the school of Rammstein with marching riffs over a forceful stomping marching beat, and floating bridge leads powers up the dark and gloomy ambiance.
Magali Luyten with her own band simply matches the powerful songs to her ditto voice. Guitarist
Samuel Arkan wrote the tracks and delivers some top notch guitar work as well on this debut. His riffing is loud and powerful, offering the strength needed for this band, whilst his solos are short edgy and never out of order. Bass player
Renaut Van Oeyen fills the gaps between guitars and drums with some good and solid (progressive) playing building a wall of sound.
François Brisk’s drumplaying is absolutely magnificent; powerful, with lots of breaks and thunderous double bass work. It simply all fits together perfectly.
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Merci pour l'ajout !! J'adore vraiment ce que vous faites, les compos, la voix de Magali, tout est parfait !! Votre album tourne en boucle dans mon mp3 :-)
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She appeared on many projects including Beautiful Sin with Uli Kusch. She has recently recorded for the new Ayreon CD « 01011001 » and has been chosen as the new female vocalist for the third Frameshift release. Magali is a contributing author in Jaime Vendera’s Raise Your Voice 2nd edition.
Samuel played, wrote and recorded with different bands and projects including Uli Kusch’s Beautiful Sin (with members from Masterplan and Pagan’s Mind) or german band Over Us Eden. He collaborated on albums with people from Primal Fear, Annihilator, James LaBrie-Band, etc…
Renaut has also a huge studio and live experience, touring with bands like Napalm Death, Hatesphere, Born From Pain or The Casualties. He has been involved in bands like Vhan, Virtual or Spirittales.
François Brisk installed his name on the metal scene with the well-known band Dyslesia. He toured with bands like Stratovarius, Rage, Elegy, Iron Maiden, Helloween or Symphony x.
