French guitarist Cyril Achard is back in an
aggressive power trio format for 'Violencia',
an album which boasts just one guitar with no
overdubs working with a grooving rhythm
section.
'Violencia' signals Achard’s intention to
produce driving rock once again some seven
years away from the scene. During the time
away Cyril has been working in a jazz format
building up a strong following around the
world with his jazz trio who released the
acclaimed 'Trace' CD/DVD dual pack on Lion
Music in 2007.
Reuniting with Cyril once again to form his
backing band are the highly esteemed musicians, bassist Franck Hermanny and drummer Eric Lebailly. Best known for being members of
France’s biggest metal band Adagio, the
rhythm section also have previous recording
history with Achard on the '...In Inconstancia
Constans' release (2001 Lion Music).
'Violencia' marks Achard’s most metal and
aggressive of all his electric guitar releases
to date. The style of the album could be
viewed as a cross between Steve Lukather-ish
instrumentals whilst the driving power of
album comes as an influence from Metallica,
which, whilst not in the same musical
ballpark, the metal legends raw power provided
Achard with the inspiration to make more
powerful tunes again, 'St Hetfield' is such a
nod to this.
Generally 'Violencia' can be considered a
simple, straight rock instrumental CD. Achard
comments, “In the past people only talked
about the complexity of my compositions with
no mention of my melodies and song writing and
I guess I was thinking I hadn’t finished the
job of what songs are about. So “Violencia” is
out to show that I can compose 4 minute tunes
with definite intros, verses, choruses and
solo sections woven into instrumental
frameworks”.