Versera
Photo Cred 📷 : @andwefoughtt
Despite my best attempts to avoid it, I remember the bad times every now and again. I try to catch myself from following that fog strewn path back into an awful darkness that I worked hard to pull myself out of. There’s a personal hell for all of us, waiting in the back of our heads and I know I'm not the only one who's had an award ceremony for my personal top moments of utter failure, especially after listening to “All the poems I wrote about you”.
“Je déteste ton absence” twangs to life, strumming and swelling almost immediately before bursting forth into this colorfully noisy wall of sound. Cacophonous and potent, a howled shriek pierces through squealing riffs, chugs, and pained choruses round out an incredible opening track.
The battle hymn-esque opening of “Rome wasn’t built in a day, but maybe if they had coffee” seems to be in direct opposition of the track's almost whimsical title. In classic Screamo fashion, the name cheekily compliments swirling guitars and thunderous drumming all clanging across winding bass lines before zeroing out into silence.
As the EP closes out with “We were oblivious” the strongly opined pain found throughout the project is reiterated with an even heavier emphasis. The anguished vocals paint vivid pictures across a canvas of dissonant and heavy instrumentation. The melodically reserved guitar interlude provides brevity in the form of a held breath before spinning itself back into an incredible racket of clattering cymbals and massive riffs.
“All the poems I wrote about you” is a brilliant first offering from Versera. Its blistering assembly of sound feels the right amount of heavy coupled with intense vocal work. Noisy screamo is something that can work easily but to make it sound really good is a whole other obstacle to scale. The band makes quick work of this and deftly handles a storied tradition of the genre in a way that some bands struggle with even later on in their careers.
Versera are definitely ones to watch in the coming years and we look forward to whatever they bring us next.
Check them out on Spotify : Versera
Writer : @letsgetpivotal
Editor : @just_reidz
04/10/23
