photo: Anastacia Papadaki
Progressive psychedelic rock quintet Cyanna Mercury paint with broad strokes on their new album Archetypes. Lead singer Spyreas Sid has enough power to reach the back rows on a huge festival, but Nick Sid takes home the award for best musician in this Athens, Greece based band. He can make his instrument whisper and holler, invoke the acoustics of a huge cathedral or a sweaty blues club,. The band as a whole sounds massive and overpowering, while the lyrics deal with doom, loss and classic mythology, with songs about- Hermes, Apollo and Lilith.
Arcehtypes is a black-and-white album - no time for the in between greys. When a woman does them wrong, she is Snake and Horse Dark As Night is creature from a next level nightmare. After all the horrors, the closing tracks here Will Be A Time comes as a misplaced Hollywood ending straight out of nowhere.
Cyanna Mercury:
Spyreas Sid: vocals, percussion
: keyboards
Diamond Pr: guitars, percussion
Dennis Panagiotidis: drums
Dimitri "Zilla" G: bass
Archetypes is a self-released album (vinyl, CD, digital). Buy it from their website.
Tracks:- Horse Dark As Night
- Hermes
- The Lunatic
- Apollo
- Ode To The Absent Father
- Lilith
- If We Were Blind
- Nothing We Can Do
- Snake
- There Will Be A Time
- 06/02 Patras, Greece @ Aneresis Patras
- 08/04 Arad, Romania @ Dark Bombastic Evening
- 08/03 Kragujevac, Serbia @ Skc
- 08/05 Plovdiv, Bulgaria @ Club Void
