“Follow Me” the intro track brings a calm before the storm vibe, making you feel a slight drizzle and opening the album promising you a personal travel through his own storm.  Trailing off with a electric guitar leading into “Tha Incomparable” produced by Veinz where the beat and Tempest’s voice takes a switch into a epic tone, this is where the storm begins with lyrics like “…I ain’t gon’ lie to you, how you gon’ kill me son, Christ wouldn’t die for you”.  In “Tell Myself” Tempest shows his creative side with a beautiful ending, having a conversation with his self, this track further defines the turbulence that goes on in his mind.  Pezey Krack weaves a fleeting flute melody adding to a smooth flow that Tempest flawlessly delivers over the beat. 

     In “Heart of Stone” Tempest picks his flow up traversing a strong beat sampling Skid Row’s 18 and Life, produced by A Stylez. Tempest digs us deeper into his mind with “I know a few who betrayed my trust, maybe I was just betrayed by trust…”.  “Need to know” love it, love the hook and it never hurts to sample Elton.  Stewrat takes a mellow Elton John track and transform it into a single ready track.  This is one of my favorite tracks on the album, had to stop listening to the rest of it for this one.  After a couple of tracks Tempest picks it up with a high energy track “Don’t Hate Me”, still following the premise of the album he bleeds his heart out with a smooth flow and coincidently the words Heart of Stone seeps in from the sample connecting it with the “Heart of Stone” track, questioning himself. 

     Some tracks that don’t particularly come hard defer from the rest of the album like “Weekend Girl” or “Pandora’s Box” which the album could have done with out but the storm picks back up with “The March” leading into a few collabo tracks with JYoung from their Stick 2 Tha Script group.  “Domino Effect” stands out with Tempest and Vs Stylez switching back and forth throughout the whole track bar after bar over a A Stylez beat.  “I’s Closed” running at 7 minutes didn’t seem like it, when it ended I didn’t know that much time went by, great track. 
     “I of Tha Storm” shows that Tempest has a good ear for picking beats and with lyrics that keep you listening no matter how the beat sounds, but for this album the majority of the beats meld his delivery and content together.  Tempest pulls you in and lets you know how he feels to understand how the center of his own storm is emotionally charged showing off his versatility in topics and style.  The album closes off with “My Reply”, making you feel like you weathered the storm.  Overall “I of Tha Storm” is beyond a solid album, it is the stepping stool that Tempest will be put on when he releases again, the tracks that don’t stand out is not saying much because they are still good, they just stand next to too many other great tracks that outshine them.

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Nostalgia

An idea came to me a few years ago to release some of my old tracks, since I have so many, to organize them and put them in a place where it can collect dust ’till I miss them and want to hear them again and for anyone who stumbles across my music can “catch up” and hear old material.  Some of these tracks were recorded on a Shure stage mic with a wire hanger with a sock over it to stop the Pops. Hence the creation of a Compilation named: Nostalgia Volume 1 (2002-2008) . All proceeds will go to nowhere since it will be available for free download but will sell some physical copies (recoup the cost of pressing). This will be coming out in March and more information can be found HERE. Here is a track from Nostalgia: Nepharius & HizEternal – Our Words (Beat By: Audiology – 03′ Track) One of my personal favorites and one of the first tracks me and Hizzy did together.

Nepharius Presents: A Mixtape

Now, this mixtape has been taking FOREVER. I had 2 covers for it and then eventually I trashed both of them and made that one up above, which I am most pleased with. The mixtape will be pressed and sold for a small amount, just to get some funds for my Simply Complex Album. It will be released in the summer. The track Ill put up is called Once Again with Maineman, straight spittin over a beautiful beat.

Simply Complex

By the end of the year my “official” 2nd album will be out, pressed, ituned up and all of that stuff by the end of the year. I am still working on the cover art, or actually it’s in my head just need to start drawing it up. It’s going to be about a good 5 years since Rhyme(s) In Va(e)in(s) was released, and will be “featuring artist” minimal. More info on this later…

Other Projects

I am working on random tracks and projects some of them are The Zeitgeist Mixtape which will be released March 15, 2010. Paper Chasers Mixtape Volume 2 later this year, I am currently working with Kava 1 on a track, just wrote my verse, I need to record it.  Also, some on going projects with Maineman for our Logical Fear group and some things with Mystery.

That is about it.

THANKS!

I added the Dark Days, I Seek Knowledge album page, nothing much to see but cover art and track listing, I’m trying to find a copy of the album so I can upload it.