Post-rock, alt-metal music project by Spiros Olivotos influenced by God Is An Astronaut, Explosions In The Sky, Deftones and Hans Zimmer .
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Sidus is a promising experimental/progressive rock/metal band I discovered two months ago through Submithub submissions with this fantastic song, Stellar Sky, released as a single in 2020. For those who haven’t heard about the band before, Sidus is a Berlin-based post-rock instrumental one-man music project formed by bass player Spiros Olivotos, and officially making releases since 2020. The band has started their careers with a single called; Envy (2020) and released three more singles, Prototypes/Replicas (2020), Energy in Emptiness (2020), and Stellar Sky (2020). Now, please give the song a listen while reading the rest of the article.
Stellar Sky is a beautiful song with a super moody and dramatic feeling in general. There’s tons of creativity from the beginning to the end where every single change, detail, or decision has a meaning, taking the journey in a specific direction. You might also remember that I believe in decisions more than anything. This is where the great minds and artists make the difference, and Stellar Sky is one of those good examples. I was quite impressed and surprised by the emotion level of this instrumental song at first. This band/guy is basically singing, telling stories through his music as it has never been this clear before. The song starts with a badass Gojira-ish riff, immediately takes the listener into its world. I can sense a huge Gojira influence in their music, ideas, and instrumentation. It is also dark, melodic, and has strong emotions from the beginning to the end. Honestly, I am a big-time progressive metal, a Gojira fan, and Sidus’ music was a perfect fit for me.
Furthermore, you can clearly see that this one-mastermind-project is an advanced musician and composer who also has experience in production. I don’t think anybody who doesn’t have the necessary skills and background can write and record music like this. I can sense expertise in every step, both musical and technical, here. Stellar Sky surely is a big success with its composition, instrumentation, toning, ideas, elements, feeling, atmosphere, traffic as well as post-production. This is a very specific job, as you can also hear from the impact of the instruments. It is mostly guitar-oriented, yet you never feel like listening to guitar music. Stellar Sky has the irresistible beauty of instrumental harmony.
Albuns
Seasons Reversed
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released November 6, 2020
Produced, mixed and mastered by Panagiotis Katsaounis at P.K. Productions (Athens, Greece): bit.ly/2x1KD4V
Original painting by Makis Olivotos: bit.ly/2JM9f4f
Artwork design and video production by Ioannis Krommydas: bit.ly/2y0fRJq
Special thanks to Kostas Milonas for the great drum performance on the song “Seasons Reversed”: bit.ly/350Z8UL
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Seasons Reversed (feat. Kostas Milonas)
– Stephen Hawking
Watch the Music Video: bit.ly/3n0tdtu
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released November 6, 2020
Produced, mixed and mastered by Panagiotis Katsaounis at P.K. Productions (Athens, Greece): bit.ly/2x1KD4V
Drums by Kostas Milonas
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Envy (Remix by Drones Que Caen)
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released October 29, 2020
Remix: Drones Que Caen
Mixing and Mastering: Panagiotis Katsaounis at P.K. Productions Studios, Athens, Greece.
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Stellar Sky
— Carl Sagan
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released July 23, 2020
Produced, mixed and mastered by Panagiotis Katsaounis at P.K. Productions (Athens, Greece): bit.ly/2x1KD4V
Energy In Emptiness
– J. Krishnamurti
Watch the Music Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebUkreK-s2Y
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released June 26, 2020
Produced, mixed and mastered by Panagiotis Katsaounis at P.K. Productions (Athens, Greece): bit.ly/2x1KD4V
Prototypes/Replicas
Official animation video: youtu.be/lClLTlDXWL8
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released May 15, 2020
Produced, mixed and mastered by Panagiotis Katsaounis at P.K. Productions (Athens, Greece): bit.ly/2x1KD4V
Envy
― C. Marlowe
Official Visualiser video: bit.ly/2XumCgZ
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released April 3, 2020
Produced, mixed and mastered by Panagiotis Katsaounis at P.K. Productions (Athens, Greece): bit.ly/2x1KD4V
Technically, Stellar Sky has top-class standards, such as its musicality. As I said earlier, this song is a production marvel. Everything sounds clean, clear, emotional, beautiful, atmospheric, well recorded, engineered, mixed, mastered, and in great harmony. As you also know from my previous articles that I am listening to tons of new music every day. And I can easily say that Stellar Sky is probably the best sounding instrumental song I listened to for a very long time.
When I take all these into account, I’d like to say that I am very impressed by SIDUS. Stellar Sky is a phenomenal song that also got a huge potential to become a soundtrack sometime in the future. I enjoyed the music, and I would like to congratulate the great mind between the curtain, Spiros Olivotos, for his beautiful job.
Please go ahead and check out the links below if you’d like to find out more about the artist/band, follow them on social media, subscribe to their channels to show your support, and not miss any upcoming releases.
Sidus – Stellar Sky Song Review | Metalhead Community | Heavy Metal Blog | Metal Music Magazine
In conclusion, Metalhead Community Team congratulates SIDUS for their inspiring job in STELLAR SKY and wishes them the very best in their future careers. Thank you for reading.
