Samuel Yuriโs Epic Scales arrive like a voltage strike across the sky, with all tension, atmosphere, and raw, unpolished force. The Sรฃo Paulo composer has always blurred genre borders, but here he leans harder into the volatile blend of grunge grit, gothic gloom, and classic rock melodrama that fuels his songwriting. The press release calls him โgenre-defying,โ and for once that isnโt hype.
Right from โEpic Scalesโ, the opener hits with grinding melodic guitars revving like engines stuck between gears while the drums hammer with unapologetic weight. The track lands like a warning tremor, as it makes you glance at the sky and sense a storm gathering.
Further in, one of the alternate โArab Theme IIIโ pushes the intensity even harder. Strong, sharp-edged guitars lead the charge before the drums come rumbling underneath, the cymbals sparking like metal on metal. Itโs harsh, sure, but intentionally so, as it drops, like weather changing direction.
With three instrumentals of the โWind Before The Stormโ leading us on, we finally arrive at the albumโs beating heart. The heavy grinding guitars return, churning beneath rumbling drums as Yuri steps in with his thick, graveled voice. Itโs a delivery with real weight behind it, half-chant, half-incantation, as he moves between the ominous and the transcendent. The lyrics lean into transformation and elemental force, as he sings, โI become the Wind / Music and the Stormโ and sells it with a conviction that pulls you straight into the mythos. The imagery gets physical: waves circling, clouds touching, music turning into rain. By the time he soars โItโs raining now!โ it drenches you in the mood.
Epic Scales comes much like a powerful, and strangely hypnotic storm that sinks you in its inundating natural grandeur. Listen to it on Spotify.
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Review by: Naomi Joan