A trilogy already? Damn, these guys don’t play around! After covering the last two, all I can say is that I was beyond impressed! These two have an energy and synchronicity to die for, and now they are approaching the home run and deciding to flex on the game in such a way I don’t think anyone is ready for it! Let’s fucking go!
Brand new collaboration project between MC ZELL and Producer DEV ROGERS, and once again, we received the short under 20 minutes formula of the hardest music you’ve heard in your life! This is absolutely insane!
We gotta talk about the production first! Just when I thought Dev couldn’t get any better or stronger, he comes out the gate with this theatrical and cinematic score that has so many surreal and immersive moments that it gets hard to pay attention without your brain floating away and just absorbing the mastery provided!
Consistently, there are things such as angelic, subtle vocal harmonies, intense chants/tribal-style voice snippets, intricate piano keys, spacey sci-fi synth chords, plucked chords, and drums that feel like they were taken from Thanos’s army himself!
From the opening track (once again numbered in that # classical music writing as before, that I fell in love with on the other two), we hear those symphony elements come into play! In the other two records, there was a direct influence feel that can be pinpointed as far as the actual genre was concerned, but on this, it just feels like a real-life movie score!
No one can identify a movie soundtrack ‘genre’ as we just identify how grand and larger than life it is, and that’s exactly what we get on this one! Pure, a masterclass of big-screen cinema transferred to the earbuds!
If I had to pick a favourite song, it would have to be ‘#41REVELATIONS (Last Days) because it reminds me of the game ‘Witcher 3’ with those mysterious choir vocals and methodical pacing that gave me goosebumps!
When we talk about this lavish and powerful production, it comes accompanied by a man who is in and of himself a powerful entity, and if I thought he sounded relentless before? He’s taking it to a whole new level, some might say an END GAME LEVEL THREAT.
He sounds more ruthless than I’ve heard him yet, angry and intense, which translates perfectly onto the instrumentals!
As has been trademark with him (so far), his flow is devastating, his pen game cold-blooded, and his MC approach absolutely murderous!
After being able to talk to this man myself, I can identify he carries the same energy on and off the beats, which is a crazy thing to witness! Not only is he destructive on beats, but he’s beyond talented and has incredible technique that is channeled in his overwhelming presence and aura!
Once again, he’s a man who has no need for features and has already shown he can entice the audience without any! He’s the kind of MC you could listen to for hours and never get sick of!
Make sure you don’t miss this (or any) of the trilogy so far and feel the power that is the combination of ZELL & DEV ROGERS!
https://open.spotify.com/album/67ihxKxEEBpPB9k52se9CT?si=8rK0r9LVTtqrBgB6Hx1vDQ
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