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S.O.N. – “The Bastard Son” review

This is the sophomore effort albeit Long Live Evil debut from Sharon, Pennsylvania emcee S.O.N. notable for his associations with the Legion Realm & the Hivemind movement. His popularity started to grow in the summer of 2021 after releasing his debut album Grant Us Eyes & performing at the 21st annual Gathering of the Juggalos. I got to meet him after his set at the only Gathering that I’ve been to thus far & with the news of him signing to LLE couple years ago, The Bastard Son’s time has arrived.

After the “Invocation” intro, the Billy Obey-laced title track l gives praise to the beast that weeps over an ominous boom bap instrumental whereas “Requiem” featuring Billy Obey himself finds the 2 talking about setting fire to the church at an act of remembrance. “Sulfur” discusses feeling that very chemical on his lips whenever he raps & after the “Hanged Man” skit, “Where Fear Lives” awakens in a field of blue roses no longer telling what’s real & what isn’t.

“Under My Skin” returns to the boom bap talking about producing new life just before “Tenebrous” angrily warns that the Legion Realm will always remain undefeated. “Absolution” featuring Keagan Grimm we’re all cattle for the cause left counting our scars & feeling worthless having no direction or purpose but after the “3 of Swords” skit, “Fire Walk with Me” talks about burning inside due to everlasting flames.

To get the final leg of The Bastard Son going, “The Rot” keeps it boom bap vividly painting the image of decay throwing up his arm & being in it’s clutches while “Apocalyptic” featuring Stray sees the pair talking cleansing the Earth with fire. “Death” produced by Slasher Dave speaks of the sky falling & the calling being inescapable leading into “Thy Will Be Done” finishing up by letting everyone know that they are bound in blood.

Almost 4 years since his breakout debut, S.O.N.’s long-awaited LLE debut continues to usher in a new era of the wicked shit called doom bap & evolving on every redeemable quality Grant Us Eyes possessed from the horrorcore-lyricism to the traditional boom bap production revealing that the fire of truth eventually reveals the Legion Realm will forever reign supreme & Long Live Evil rightfully continuing to bring back a feeling that was lost over a decade ago.

Score: 4.5/5

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S.O.N. – “Grant Us Eyes” review

S.O.N. is an MC from Sharon, Pennsylvania notable for his associations with the Legion Realm & the Hivemind movement. But for his official full-length debut over here, he has enlisted Billy Obey produce the whole thing from top to bottom which immediately caught my attention given that Billy is 1/3 of what I personally believe to be the greatest horrorcore act to come up within the last decade: Alla Xul Elu.

After the “A Terrible Fate” intro, the title track is a Hellish opener speaking on dark energy surrounding him whereas “E.V.I.L. (Everything Vile Inside Legion)” takes a turn into boom bap territory repping the Legion Realm. “King of Dark Energy” proclaims himself as such on top of an occult instrumental while “Breathe” somberly depicts a dark messiah encouraging this man & woman to become a part of him.

Meanwhile after “The Descent” interlude, but “The Mouth of Madness” grotesquely depicts a place where only the strong survive just before Xul themselves tag along to embrace their sins for quasi-rap rock tinged “Amen”. He later fucks with Samaritan witchcraft on the misty “The Bridge” leading into him talking about losing his mind for the dusty “What’s That Noise?”.

Following the “Order of the Blue Rose” interlude, “Feed the Beast” takes the trap route to describe the antichrist whereas the heinous “Eye for an Eye” talks about a demon being summoned by the tears of the broken. The penultimate track “The Blessing” calls to a higher power in wicked boom bap fashion & then the closer “The Hive” talks about a beast that goes by many names accompanied by a buzzing instrumental.

I can only imagine S.O.N. going places from hereon out because I highly enjoyed what he brought to the table with Grant Us Eyes. Dude’s lyrics are amongst the darkest that you’ll hear all 2021 & of course Billy Obey knocks it out of the park on the production end of things.

Score: 4.5/5