Sermon – Sermon Review

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 fruit of art identity, mood, sound, and atmosphere of their own, 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.