Formed in Giessen, Germany, in 2020, many feared that Lynx peaked too early with their debut album Watcher Of The Skies. Released in 2021, that album received such great reviews (and rightly so) it felt that the band had set the bar impossibly high and they’d never be able to top it. If Lynx were feeling the pressure, then it doesn’t show because sophomore album Trinity Of Suns picks right up where it’s predecessor left off, delivering seven tracks of beautifully baroque metal that find the band at the top of their game and bravely facing down the future.

It’s been all change in the Lynx camp since they released their debut album, most notably the arrival of vocalist Amy and guitarist Janni, replacing the departing Marvin Kiefer, subsequently expanding the band to a quintet. Band chemistry is a funny thing and it doesn’t take much to throw things off kilter; any type of flux can prove disastrous, but those impacting Lynx seemed to have had a restorative effect, and opening track ‘Voyager’ evidences a band rejuvenated and reinvigorated. As such, the band don’t feel the need to arrive with all guitars blazing, rather ‘Voyager’ is a slow builder, taking on form as it progress, it gradually adds layers of sound, imperceptibly at first, until without quite realising it the listener is totally subsumed within the band’s world. It’s indicative of the band’s modus operandi; they don’t feel the need to scrawl their sound violently on every surface, rather they patiently build soundscapes that are rich and textured, flowing like a long tapestry. While it might not provide an instant fix, over the long haul it renders ‘Voyager’ (and the whole album) a more intensely satisfying affair.

In the world of metal, vocalists are often “Marmite”; they’re loved and hated in equal measure and can turn off as many people as they turn on. So when Amy joined the band, many wondered if Lynx would continue on their upward curve, or would the changes knock them off their trajectory. Trinity Of Suns proves that it’s very much the former, with Amy making the microphone her own, and in conjunction with Janni’s gruffer voice makes for an arresting experience. While Lynx are billed as a band who blur the lines between hard rock and heavy metal, in reality they are far greater in scope and there’s a definite progressive element to their sound. Songs such as ‘Oppressive Season’ are wheels within wheels, always rotating and turning, they’re tracks of several suites that are propelled forwards by their own perpetual motion. As such, songs like ‘Island Universe’ have a narrative arc, a storytelling, epic nature, that renders them the musical equivalent of a J.R.R. Tolkien novel.

The end of on era, and the beginning of another, the future belongs to Lynx.

• Trinity Of Suns is released via Dying Victims Productions on 24th April 2026.

Track List:

1. Voyager

2. Oppressive Season

3. Trinity Of Suns

4. Parhelia Interlude

5. Stranger Sign In The Sky

6. Seven Days Of Darkness

7. Island Universe