Originating from the north of France, the band was created in 1995 by four former members: Stéphane Souteyrand (guitar-keyboards), Laurent Harrouart (drums), Paul Banas (guitar-vocals), and Sébastien Carron (bass). Since the beginning, they chose a very personal music style, mixed between Heavy metal and Black metal. Main subjects approached by the band are occultism, horror/fantastic as well as the members own philosophies. Less than one year later (April 1996), YYRKOON decided to record the bands first demo-tape with the newcomer William Wendling on keyboards; “Oath, Obscure, Occult…”containing 5 titles. They enriched the sound texture with a female voice, violin, flute, etc… This tape gave to them the exposure they needed and the band YYRKOON was discovered by the underground stage, which allowed them to book shows, and to tape-trade throughout the French metal community. The tape was sent to several French labels, and Velvet Music (Necrophagist, Blut Aus Nord, Mundanus Imperium…) offered them a deal for their first upcoming album. But at that time, each member’s motivation was not on the same level, and a mild conflict in the band led to a change in line-up. This conflict happened during the recording of the debut album: Paul Banas (singer) and Sébastien Caron (bassist) decided to leave the band and they were replaced by two new members: Jérôme Baroin (guitar) and Kristofer Lorent (bass); Stéphane Souteyrand was ready to take vocals for his own, but wanted to find somebody else to replace William Wendling on keyboards who wasn’t yet integrated into the band. So, he asked an old friend Geoffrey Gautier to join them as the keyboard player. After this, YYRKOON was ready to record their first album “Oniric Transition” at Walnut grove Studio in Amiens (France). On this debut album, the music style was quite similar to the demo, but had more maturity and technicality. Stéphane added clear vocals on some chorus which personalized the music even more. Magazines reviewed this album like a kind of Dark metal thanks to many influences, with heavy solos, atmospheric parts, death metal riffs, and black metal rhythms. We could find some songs from “Oniric Transition” on several compilations like “Encyclopedia Pestilencia” (France), “Asgardreien” (Norway) etc… A year passed, while the band searched for a new label, and Jérôme Baroin left the band for his own musical project.

Originating from the north of France, the band was created in 1995 by four former members: Stéphane Souteyrand (guitar-keyboards), Laurent Harrouart (drums), Paul Banas (guitar-vocals), and Sébastien Carron (bass). Since the beginning, they chose a very personal music style, mixed between Heavy metal and Black metal. Main subjects approached by the band are occultism, horror/fantastic as well as the members own philosophies. Less than one year later (April 1996), YYRKOON decided to record the bands first demo-tape with the newcomer William Wendling on keyboards; “Oath, Obscure, Occult…”containing 5 titles. They enriched the sound texture with a female voice, violin, flute, etc… This tape gave to them the exposure they needed and the band YYRKOON was discovered by the underground stage, whi...