Samuel Yuri’s Epic Scales arrive like a voltage strike across the sky, with all tension, atmosphere, and raw, unpolished force. The São 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 “genre-defying,” and for once that isn’t hype.
Right from “Epic Scales”, 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 “Arab Theme III” 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. It’s harsh, sure, but intentionally so, as it drops, like weather changing direction.
With three instrumentals of the “Wind Before The Storm” leading us on, we finally arrive at the album’s beating heart. The heavy grinding guitars return, churning beneath rumbling drums as Yuri steps in with his thick, graveled voice. It’s 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, “I become the Wind / Music and the Storm” 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 “It’s raining now!” 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