Billy Dean on Drums and Percussion provides the imagery of being lost in a sea of time metered chaos.
Ish Rios on Guitar and Vocals gives walls of distortion to power house chants.
Scott Queen on Bass Guitar is pushing black hole drop hits trance porting us all to new realms. Together bringing starlight laze beams with ambient nebulous inhales. Secret of Vessia holds the key to unlocked doors of remembrance with there first album Burning Aphelion.
Influences
PASSION
DOOM
Sounds Like
Solve et coagula, ‘Dissolve and combine’
black dirt heart he licks her secret
parts or waters stars a swallow nursed
by isis wagered light & shoulders clay
so made & moist or reared from grass
he burns as summer beams a world of
river skin like siamese moon her rock
beside the sea the great green fire or
flower of the clouds towards the night
his wordless book & blankets soaked
with dew she bends the sun to white
the were-not-days a ros that starts with
spring: the oldest death a pearl he swiftly
seized & flayed the skin from head &
mixed the bones with flesh & burned
the mountain / forged his ruddy head
from blackness stained with acid gift the
stink of furnace leaves or bark & fruit her
awful look a coffin-boat & spotted red like
blood her young are fed (or slain / or gold
clothe itself in flesh & whiplike bones
his troubled dreams already dead she
rose to shake from far below in earth
& walked the house the dark & faintly
red he blew the lamp or trees or massed
outside in firetop weeds & rain his tank
of stone & tears he calls it lux it hurt to
call in bedroom graveyard light like winter
aires the heart as meat immersed in rills &
freshets closed the middle span his box
or trunk collected blood or rings the edge of
woods & birds an elder snare or ghoulsign
hollow sun her august keys beneath the open
slate & stuffed or hollow men suggested rats
the never white in glass or made the walls a
spark not black not red not green she chops
in tantric battle all we are & would be (change:
drums that fade to desert pixies dress she sends
her cement wings & wine a no place empty face
Brothers Forever!
CD Review by Rick de Yampert of News-Jrnl
The Secret of Vessia far from mundane "Burning Aphelion" Independent release **** (of 5)
The Secret of Vessia
."Burning Aphelion," prog-metal heads will have their DNA shape-shifted by the band's amazing sound-scapes.
"Lithotroph" is a 13-minute, 32-second epic that earns that designation. Singer-guitarist Ish Rios conjures shaman wails while sounding like an incubus doppelganger of Evanescence's Amy Lee. Guitarist-keyboardist Steve Ingram tosses in -- ohmygod -- organ bits that recall Spinal Tap's granddaddy, Deep Purple (that's a good thing). Wait, there's more -- a Jaco-ish bass solo by Scott Queen.
Likewise on other tracks, the SoV lads are too adventurous (or too haunted by the Segacious Ones) to be bothered with government-issue riff rock.
The guitars of "Fulcrum" stagger and stutter before hammerlocking onto a groove midway in, then the track mellows into a trippy outro before finishing with an operatic flourish. "Alas, to the Endless Beyond" is energized by drummer Billy Dean's intricate fills.
The ghostly choir boys of "Segacious One" and "Fruition," a sideways (and likely subconscious) quote of the Who's "Baba O'Riley" on "Rock" and some psychedelic, Pink Floyd-ish dreamscapes scattered elsewhere provide jolting relief from the thrash.
Webster's defines "aphelion" as the point on its orbit when a planet is farthest from the sun. "Burning Aphelion" is a point where progressive metal is farthest from the mundane.
-- Rick de Yampert,
Entertainment Writer
The Secret of Vessia is aggressively passionate, with profound mystic qualities of ancient metaphysical theorems, and Egyptology. There musical style is bold, raw burning fire with an unquenchable thirst, ambient space travel to battle fields of rage, and lustful depictions of revenge. Providing a bridge to the seen and unseen Secret of Vessia’s unveiling debut album titled “Burning Aphelion” offers entrance into the mind of the warrior’s journey. Providing a new philosophy on the fruition of mans origins, divergence of body with the combatants of soul, fervent burdens of sacrifice to lustful encounters which ultimately lead to the destruction of the Sagacious Ones destiny and life as we know it. The Secret of Vessia is monster rock with savage instinct and a will to defy gravity.
thanks for accepting my add request. i used to live in florida. billy was my drum instructer. you guys are amazing hope your gigs get bigger and bigger.
