Vile Ritual are a solo project from Maryland that has had music reviewed before in this zine and on this recording plays a psychedelic and bestial mixture of war, black and death metal and this is a review of his 2023 album "Caverns Of Occultic Hatred" which will be released in June by Sentient Ruin Laboratories.
Dark ritualistic soundscapes start off the album before going into more of a fast, raw and brutal war metal direction which also utilizes a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats. Vocals are mostly bestial growls while black metal screams can also be heard at times and melodies can also be heard in some of the guitar riffing.
When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are also done in a very dark yet melodic style while the songs also add in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. At time s the music also gets very atmospheric, progressive and technical sounding along with the tracks also adding in a small amount of psychedelic touches.
Whispered vocals can also be heard briefly and a couple of songs also introduces synths onto the recording as well as one of the tracks also being long and epic in length and some of t he riffing also shows an influence of old school death metal. The production sounds very raw and heavy while the lyrics cover Occultism, Alchemy and Esoteric themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding album from Vile Ritual and if you are a fan of psychedelic and bestial war, black and death metal, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Formless" "manifestation" and "Void". 8 out of 10.
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