Yyrkoon, pronounced 'EAR koon' is native of France, the band was created in 1995 by four members : Stéphane Souteyrand (guitar & keyboards,
Aborted ), Laurent Harrouart (drums), Paul Banas (vocals & guitar) and Sébastien Caron (bass guitar). They directly started to play and compose their own kind of music which is a mixture between their influences and gave us a very personal Black/Heavy metal . The main thematics of the band are occultism, horror/fantastic and personal member's philosophy.
One year later (1996), Yyrkoon decided to record the first demo tape in autoproduction : "Oath, Obscure, Occult.
...
..", it contains 5 songs of their personal metal. They added different sounds textures to their style like a female voice, violin and flute. This tape allowed the band to be welcome in the underground, to find date to play live with other bands and to trade demos with their french neighbourings.
The demo was sent to different french labels and one was interested to do something with Yyrkoon : Velvet Music International ( Blut Aus Nord , Wallachia , Mundanus Imperium , ...) purposed to the band a deal for their first full lenght album. The band accepted the term and prepared the composition of their first album. The motivation at this time seems to be different for each members and a little conflict leads the line-up to change. This is done during the recording of this album, Paul Banas (the singer) & Sébastien Caron (bass guitar) decided to leave the band and new members joined Yyrkoon : Jérôme Barouin (session guitar) & Kristofer Laurent (bass guitar). Stéphane Souteyrand decided to sing and thought that it would be preferable to find a keyboard player for shows.
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