SECRETS OF THE SKY growls it`s way to the scene from Oakland, with their first full length release "To Sail Black Waters". The album was recorded over eight month period with under the supervision of producer Juan Urteaga at Trident Studios. On this album you don`t get few smashing super hits, but four epics. That`s all. Four songs on the album, where the shortest track is 7:43 long. "To Sail Black Waters" brings entirely unique sound with up to three guitar tracks, up to three keyboards at the time and a whole lot of vocal styles that makes you doubt the fact that there`s only six members in the band. This album just can`t be put in a little box and labeled with single genre. It`s Metal, and it`s dark, and Cinematic  from time to time, but also carries Atmospheric sequences, but then again there`s some Doom Metal, too. In a word - it`s Epic! That`s all you need to know.

The opening track "Winter" comes with crushing sounds of guitars, low growling vocals that shares it`s place with screamed and whispered clear vocals. The SECRETS OF THE SKY`s vocalist Garret Gazay shows all things he can do with his vocal range. The track brings appropriate cold, icy sound, ranging from mellow and melodic all the way heavy, feral realms. The production is done perfectly. It`s clear and bright with just enough raw sound.

Next track goes deeper down in the darkness. Heavy slow rhythm, with screaming vocals, that turns into more melodic and atmospheric sound with clean vocals that add a Gothic aspect, and certain amount of lightness to the track, just enough to keep it balanced. "Decline" is mesmerizing multilayered track, one of those that you keep replaying just to catch every sound hidden within.

"Sunrise" comes crushing with doom guitar riffs that are complemented with growling vocals, that trade place back and forth with clean vocals. Here again the crushing music flows nicely into more melodic, cinematic parts, that change back into Gothic part, that again morphs to Doom/Death Metal sequence.

Bass line introduces the clear drums that builds up until the clear vocals come into "Black Waters". The lightness of the intro is replaced with dark, heavy sound of crushing guitars and growling vocals. The track flows nicely between these two aspects that intertwine through the song, with numerous twists in between.

If you`re searching out for new interesting sound, and are not bound by single genre, than you should definitely give a listen to the SECRETS OF THE SKY. "To Sail Black Waters" is the album that you need to listen to more than couple of times to catch all nuances that are woven into this multilayered masterpiece.