ION INDIE MAGAZINE September 2015, Volume 16 | Page 102

A Few Moments in the Sun with MARCOS LEAL Lead Singer for Shattered Sun Mayhem Fest at the Xfinity Center • Boston, MA Interview and Photography by Daniel Johnson • www.facebook.com/DagdaPhotography Dagda: It is finally great to meet the lead behind SHATTERED SUN. The set sounded great and you certainly were able to move the audience. Marcos: You saw the set and heard the album. We have a lot of old school influence. We like to write great songs, and I feel like that is an art that is lost. Everyone seems to be focused on the “flavor of the week” or “what is technical” at the time. I think people forget that all of the biggest bands that are out there—METALLICA, MEGADETH, TESTAMENT, EXODUS--the bands that have lasted—KISS and QUEENSRYCHE. They are still around because they all wrote great songs that have lasted through time. We are trying to incorporate that into our music. It is cool to see that we are winning over a lot of the fans that just came here to see SLAYER. The fans come up to us and say, “Wow-that is something I can really dig onto!” We are excited to see this thing take life. Dagda: I certainly heard those influences. One that stuck out in particular was IRON MAIDEN. Tell me a little about that.