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Melodieuze metalformatie.
Lekkere knallende rockers.

Some folks in the community will call Wicked Maraya progressive metal. To me they were pretty much a solid hard rock act, really leaning more towards classic heavy metal, but adding in that extra something to make them seem a bit too fancy to be just straight forward heavy metal. To me they could always be looked at in the same light as Savatage's "Edge Of Thorns" and "Handful Of Rain", minus the annoying keyboards. With a strong make-up of groove oriented metallic chops, a rock steady vocalist, and the will power and muscle to shake the chains that held them down, to briefly, oh so briefly, emerge as a serious contender to lead the troops out of the smoke and back over the lines. With their debut, "Cycles", in 1995 for legendary Belgium label Mausoleum Records, Wicked Maraya really showed off a spark of intelligent, thought provoking heaviness. Never one to thrash and mad dash all over the place, Wicked Maraya displayed a mid-tempo power crunch led by the powerful pipes of Lou Falco, an amazing singer that I still admire to this day. I could never quite put my finger on anyone he could compare too, but at times he seemed to be a bit European in his delivery. Nevertheless the wicked ones amazed a small US following, those unaware that heavy hard rock had been killed off by the likes of Nirvana and Pearl Jam. "Cycles" was a fantastic debut and a clever way to adopt a modern hard rock feel into a heavy flow of emotion and anger.