PYG - End of the World

Yvan GUILLEVIC is a guitarist fed with the psychedelic and bluesy riffs of Jimi HENDRIX, Stevie Ray VAUGHAN and Jeff BECK and with the acrobatics virtuosos of Steve VAI, Joe SATRIANI or Eric JOHNSON. He’s addicted to the PINK FLOYD’s and MARILLION’s Progressive rock atmospheres, or the heavier ones of LED ZEPPELIN, VAN HALEN and IRON MAIDEN. P.Y.G. has been created in June 2010: Yvan GUILLEVIC is the author, composer and of course guitarist of this new adventure, a Progressive rock music with some hard-rock and even some heavy-metal roots. First piece of this new project, the album “End Of The World” (2011) is a disenchanted report of our society where profit by any means has become the only philosophical reference driving us irreparably to the end of humanity and maybe even the end of our planet.

The album brings us in a sound universe with admitted influences of Seventies and Eighties Progressive rock bands, also mixing heavy-metal energy of bands such as JUDAS PRIEST or QUEENSRYCHE. The vocal power of Morgan MARLET and Nelly Le QUILLIEC benefits from the rhythmic section of Julien OUKIDJA and Bernard CLEMENCE, also highlighted by Jean-Noël ROZE’s keyboards chords. The guitar riffs by Yvan GUILLEVIC, sometimes circling, sometimes incisive, strengthens the melodic side of P.Y.G…