Ancient Ritual are a solo project from an unknown area that plays a very old school and ambient form of black metal and this is a review of his self released 2024 album "Congressus Cum Daemonone".
A very dark yet heavy sound starts off the album while the vocals also bring in a very different approach to black metal screams mixing in touches of ambient. When the music speeds up a decent amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can be heard which also gives the songs more of a raw feeling and there are also a lot of 90's influences.
When guitar solos and leads are utilized they also bring in more of a chaotic old school style while dark sounding melodies are also added into some of the guitar riffing. Throughout the recording you can also hear a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with all of the musical instruments also having a very powerful sound to them and a couple of songs also adds in a small amount of clean playing, spoken word parts are also added towards the end.
Ancient Ritual plays a style of black metal that is very raw and old school in t he 90's tradition as well as adding in a harsh ambient vocal approach to create a sound of his own. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover occultism and darkness themes.
In my opinion Ancient Ritual are a very great sounding raw and old school ambient black metal solo project and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Congressus Cum Daemonone" "Veins of Madness" and "The Black Goat With The Flaming Sword". 8 out of 10.
https://ancientritual.bandcamp.com/album/congressus-cum-daemone
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