A Gothic Doom band from Türkiye. February 26th, 2022, the band released their self-titled EP/single, which includes three deathly, hollow, and powerful songs that would gratify fans of Paradise Lost, Type O Negative, and Entombed. The album was released through the digital platform of Earache Records.
Introduction:
Sermon, Till Birth Do Us Part: This review will evaluate every aspect of the album/single, from its intricate musical composition to its production. Our analysis will provide valuable insights to help you determine if this album/single is worth adding to your collection.
The First Three Sins of Sermon
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Sermon and their self-titled EP/single.
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Features guitar work that’s imbued with dark melodies, rhythms, and solid multi-chord structure. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involves slow-death doom growls and -Esque Peter Steele’s dark romantic vocals. The Third Sin—The Percussions: drum work uses various epic/tempo beats/drum strikes and full-throttle rhythmic, aural battering of the drums.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion: Rhythms soaked with dark melodies and a droning funeral dirge atmosphere
Immediately as the listener presses that play button, the listener is welcome to the opening piece, Posthumous, where the listener is welcome to a symphonic opening. Followed suit by this gothic/death doom instrumentation and harsh growls, which continue throughout the remaining two pieces.
As one continues their journey with the last two pieces, Requirement and Destined To Decline. Each song, including the opening piece, has its own identity and characteristics. Which includes a violin/sorrowful classical opening to each piece. Especially the closing track truly captures the sorrowful and dreadful atmosphere -with the rustling of the wind in the background and the introduction of the guitar and the epic drum strikes -magical and beautiful.
Sermon delivers this deathly, hollow, and powerful piece of art of creating and providing this “before the listener’s eyes and ears moments” with their music, sound, and atmosphere.
The openings of each piece capture the sorrow and demise, and the aggressive and anger of each piece capture the grief and torment of the music/lyrical theme.
At the same time, Sermon creates and provides strong songwriting and composing of the music and incredible deliverance of excellent devilmanship utilising slow epic/rhythmic drum strikes/beats, guitar rhythms soaked with dark melodies and a droning funeral dirge atmosphere.
The vocals consist of death doom growls and Peter Steele-Esque, darky romantic vocals, with moments of hearing the old-school Swedish death metallers Entombed within the vocal range/tone. Other various compositions are added such as (mentioned above) sorrowful violin openings, spoken audio clips and music switches between different moods/atmospheres.
Simultaneously, where the listener has the enjoyment of only three pieces within the playtime of twenty-three minutes —these songs are dark, sorrowful, brutal, and entertaining to listen to -each piece captures a picturesque of their own identity, mood, sound, and atmosphere while embracing the influences of Paradise Lost, Type O Negative and Entombed etc. within their musical spectrum.
The album comes to an end. We want to give a shoutout to Sermon for letting us review their Self-titled EP/single. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
You’re Listening to “Posthumous”
PlayThe Last Three Sins
Let’s discuss the last three sins, our thoughts on Semon and their self-titled EP/single.
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia: Is that for us, while enjoying the sound and music, the mood and atmosphere of the three songs capture this deathly, hollow, and powerful composition within their musical spectrum.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
No artwork was available for the release. The artwork present is from the Till Birth Do Us Part release.
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of Sermon, and their self-titled EP/single.
This concludes the Sermon, Self-titled EP/single review.
Track-Listing:
- Posthumous
- Requitement
- Destined to Decline
Sermon is:
- Harun Altun – vocals
- Durmuş Kalin – lead guitar
- Cem Barut – rhythm guitar
