Style: black metal with tribal influence
Primary Emotions/Themes: Rotting Christ's version of melodic black metal with tribal drumming as a major aspect
Thoughts: Rotting Christ has such a strange discography. Their very early work is fantastic, and then they went off into a strange gothic metal direction that did nothing for me. Then they started to bring things back when they added the black metal back in. Then they decided to start adding in random aspects to their music. With Rituals that random aspect was a slower more tribal approach to the music.
Rotting Christ's music has always relied heavily on atmosphere, and Rituals is no different. Regardless of the music's speed there is almost always a "wall of sound" approach. This helps the music have a more complete feel than it would otherwise, and in Rituals it's the defining characteristic that makes the album better than a lot of the other entries into the band's discography.
Rituals is aptly titled, as the whole album feels like an extended ritual. Some songs are a bit faster, but where the album really shines is when it slows things down and fully embraces the ritualistic atmosphere. It's here where Rotting Christ shows what they are truly capable. Unfortunately this is the last album that I've been truly able to get into from the band, but at least here they had one hell of a release.
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