Goat Major - Ritual - VINYL LP

The debut full length album from Pittsburgh's Ritual Mass is more than a collection of songs, it's a series of calculated assaults on the virtue of the holy. Evolving beyond earlier EP and demo releases, Cascading Misery encapsulates the bludgeoning infliction of pain and the slow peel of skin by flame, rife with both sonic chaos and extinguished hope.From the outset of album opener InchObsidian MirrorInch the atmosphere is oppressive, thick with a suffocating malaise. There is a sense of something ceremonial at work but not in a way that seeks communion. Rather it's ordeal as sacrament. Riffs strangle and churn into convulsive submission, oscillating from slow agony to psychotic break, over which a guttural lament so savage it freezes the blood is wrenched through dungeon stone. Each track unfolds like time spent in isolation, bound by chains, the mind slowly unraveling and surrounded by memories of torment both real and imagined.By the time the epic fourteen-minute album closer 'Disquiet' dissipates into a mass of formless static, Ritual Mass have dragged you into a world where suffering is not an end but a condition of existence. Cascading Misery is music for the dissolution of hope, the terror of being, and the long march toward death.

Back with their fourth album Heresiarch, THE Ritual Aura is firing on all cylinders with 11 new songs of brilliant progressive technical death metal. The 56-minute album takes you on an epic trek from delicate clean passages to furious blast beats and face-melting string ferocity, highlighted especially in the 15-minute album closer, InchDenouement Knell.Inch This album is a must for any fan of technical or progressive death metal. Album Tracks 1. 1. Light's Hope 2. 2. Ailing Catharsis 3. 3. Heresiarch I Bruma Aeterna 4. 4. Heresiarch II Enduring Prophecy 5. 5. Heresiarch III Devouring Sun 6. 6. Soulrending Materiae 7. 7. in the Warmth of It's Glow We Thrived 8. 8. the New Plague 9. 9. Unholy Nadir 10. 10. the Watershed Misnomer 11. 11. Denouement Knell

Ritual King / INFINITE MIRROR / The brand new album from the British desert rockers! Album Tracks 1. Flow State 2. Words Divide 3. Landmass 4. Tethered 5. The Infinite Mirror