Rating: 8 / 10 Stars
SEMBLANT is: Sergio Mazul (vocals), J. Augusto (keyboards), Mizuho Lin (vocals), Sol Perez (guitar), Juliano Ribeiro (guitar), Thor Sikora (drums), and Johann Piper (bass)
REVIEW – SEMBLANT began in 2006 in Curitiba, Brazil when vocalist Sergio Mazul and keyboardist J. Augusto partnered to produce music that encompassed all the dark and aggressive qualities they admired and enjoyed in heavy music. After a few years of shifting line-ups, the group solidified itself with the inclusion of Mizuho Lin (female vocals), Juliano Ribeiro (guitar), Welyntom “Thor” Sikora (drums), and Johann Piper (bass) to the group.
“Vermillion Eclipse,” SEMBLANT’s second album for Frontiers and fourth overall, sees the band continuing their transformation into a tremendous musical force that defies genre classification. SEMBLANT’s new album, “Vermillion Eclipse,” showcases the band’s diverse metal and rock inspirations in a way that’s both fresh and familiar at the same time.
SEMBLANT opens ‘Vermilion Eclipse’ with “Enrage,” a fast-paced speed metal track featuring soaring vocals and grandiose music. The second track, “Destiny in Curse,” contains booming bass, thumping percussion, gloomy synthesizers, and seductive vocals. Track three, “Purified,” will have you closing your eyes and drifting off into your own little world. The following song “The Human Eclipse” is a fist pounding, head banging, metal wizardry masterpiece. The sixth tune “Somber Concern” will have the listener struggling to cling on amid spectacular dreams and emotions. The next song, “Neverending Fall,” has, in addition to the exquisite vocals, powerful percussion, crushing bass lines, and screaming leads.
Track seven “Through the Denial” includes powerful music that draws the listener towards darkness. The following song “Black Sun Genesis (Legacy of Blood Pt VI)” has crunchy chords, harsh voices, with thundering rhythms and soaring choruses. Track nine “Heretic” will have the listener singing and drifting off into a midnight realm of dreams. “Bloodred Monarch (Legacy of Blood Pt VII)” will have the listener immersed in gloomy emotional thoughts. With the eleventh song “Gaslighting” SEMBLANT will have the listener feeling as though they are slammed into the crowd, with everybody sweating and flailing around. “Day One Oblivion,” the album’s last track, closes up ‘Vermilion Eclipse’ with a devastating riff and excellent vocal performance by SEMBLANT.
With bottled up energy from being unable to tour and the emotional toll of the pandemic (several band members lost a family member to COVID-19), the band’s composition and performances here exhibit much more forward growth than what was made between their prior two albums.
‘Vermilion Eclipse’ displays how much SEMBLANT has developed musically in both composition and performance.
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www.Semblant.com.br
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