| Background: | group_or_band |
| The Sun | |
| Origin: | Bangkok, Thailand |
| Genre: | heavy metal glam metal pop rock alternative rock |
| Discography: | "The Sun" (1996) "Tiger, Lion, Bull, Rhico" (1998) "The Road of The Sun" (2000, remastered in 2020) |
| Years Active: | 1996–2000, 2019–present[1] |
| Label: | RS Promotion Bakery Music Sony Music Real and Sure |
| Spinoffs: | Stone Metal Fire |
| Current Members: | Pathompong Sombatpiboon Jakkarin Daungmaneerattanachai Phithak Srisang Damrongsith Srinak |
| Past Members: | Selvester Lester C. Esteban |
The Sun, is a Thai heavy metal and alternative rock band which famous especially in the 1996–1998. This band was spinoff from Stone Metal Fire.
After success of Stone Metal Fire, they had their own problems.[2] In 1996, the lead vocal Pathompong Sombatpiboon and the first lead guitar Jakkarin Daungmaneerattanachai were quit from the band and formed "The Sun". Meanwhile, the second lead guitar Namphon Raksaphong and the bass guitarist Narong Sirisarnsoonthorn to form the band "Lava" instead. Later that, the drummer Selvester Lester C. Esteban is join with "The Sun", so they took Phithak Srisang from The Olarn Project into the bass guitarlist for their band.
The Sun still stick to the heavy metal style, but adjust melody to integrate with alternative rock which popular in Thailand in the late 1990s, along with intelligible lyrics. They still working with record label RS Promotion. They released two studio albums from that label include, "The Sun" in 1996 and "Tiger, Lion, Bull, Rhico" (เสือ สิงห์ กระทิง แรด) in 1998, which their popular songs, such as, That's enough. (พอแล้ว), Let out (ปล่อยผี), Are You Ready To Rock, Vampire, Am I Too Easy for You? (ง่ายเกินไป),[3] etc.
Am I Too Easy for You? is very popular song, and that melody of song also applied with a song by Cambodian megastar, Preap Sovath, "Upset" (lit : Touch Chit) in 2000s. That song also many singers have been covered it again, include Biw Kanlayanee, Bam Pailin, Ann Oradee and Jirakorn Somphithak.[4]
In 2000, they resigned from RS Promotion to join with Bakery Music and released leatest studio album "The Road of The Sun" (ถนนพระอาทิตย์) with a popular song You did your best! (ทำดีที่สุดแล้ว).[5] In 2020, that album remastered and released again by Real and Sure.
Current members
Past members
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