Immediately after the listener presses the play button, the listener is welcomed to the opening track, The Endless Ocean Overturne. This welcomes the listener with the sound of the ocean and dark atmospheric (beautiful/soothing) piano and orchestral that softly laps onto the shoreline.
The second track, Blizzard, follows suit, opening to the sound of wind whistling through your speakers before welcoming the listener with this (dream-like atmosphere) heavy rock Geddy Lee and slow bluesy Rush signature style. It is topped with an energetic signature seventies hard rock & roll and Led Zeppelin vibe rushing through the veins of the music. The lyrics are metaphorical and directly related to The Endless Ocean.
Simultaneously, the album creates and deliverance an energetic/adrenaline, fun, entertaining, never-dull moment or repetitive moment, but topped with extraordinary production, devilmanship, eight equally solid, strongly composed songs with their identity (don’t sound the same) that grab your attention.
The overall of the music has a nice structured and captures the soul essences (influences) of Rush, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and a few others. This is all woven (perfect/well-balanced, don’t even overpower each other) together with elements of blues-rock, hard/heavy rock, progressive rock, rhythm and blues, jazz. With the additional influences of Zeppelin moments within their music, there are even moments they are some taints of that hard and bluesy of Coverdale-Page in the band’s music.
Topped with the sound of the 60s/70s, proto/early metal, occult-psychedelic, doom metal, a bit of thunder of heavy metal, additional sound FX, darkly and picturesque sections, various moods, flute, harmonica and acoustic moments.
Moving over to the devilmanship of Artemis’ vocals, which shines on this release and shows off his capabilities, along with his band members, who all floor their devilmanship of playing their instruments to perfection—bringing the album/music alive in a lavished and captivating (enjoyable) epic/dark poetic way.
While the rest of the devilmanship comprises fruit of art composition: Den’s guitar work comprises a fusion of hot, smoky guitar riffs/clean melodic chord playing filled with a trippy and bluesy vibe, fret-board solos and an excellent feeling of rhythm and blues in his riffs and music. Vadim adds a backbone to the music with slow/mid-tempo drumming and floor-peddling beats.
The album ends with the last song, Endless Ocean, with the (again) sound of waves. Followed by a (slow) epic/heavy doomy feel towards the song, before breaking loose with this energetic progressive rock that ends with a saxophone jazzy doom metal/bluesy-hard rock ending. We want to give a shoutout to Scarecrow for letting us review their second album, Scarecrow II. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
