Ritual Howls - Rendered Armor (2019) pre-order
Release: 22 March 2019
Ritual Howls have announced a new album titled Rendered Armor, out March 22. The album unfolds
with unnerving anticipation, as if sound tracking a chase scene in a
surrealist western film. The trio's most mature offering to date, Rendered Armor finds
the band further carving out their own eclectic mix of organic
instrumentation and pulsing electronics, distinguishing them as a unique
force in the current landscape of underground music.
Ritual Howls create a cinematic blend of twangy industrial-rock that
could fuel a post-apocalyptic dancefloor. A collaboration between Paul
Bancell (vocals, guitar), Chris Samuels (synth, samples, drum machine),
and Ben Saginaw (bass), the Detroit trio's fourth full-length Rendered
Armor follows the 'Their Body' EP of 2018 with expansive arrangements
sculpted with masterful production.
Throughout 'Rendered Armor' familiar influences reveal themselves, but the band doesn’t rely on derivative imitation. Instead, Ritual Howls forge haunting atmospheres that are all their own, reaching into unexpected sonic domain. Each track unfolds with unnerving anticipation, as if sound tracking a chase scene in a surrealist western film. Bancell delivers his baritone above a jangling guitar like an incantation, evoking macabre, religious imagery laden with futuristic undertones. Propelled by Saginaw's often fuzzed-out bass and Samuels' dance club-friendly rhythms, it's no surprise that the band hails from the techno capital of the US.
Opening the album with a gloomy country-tinged guitar hook, "Alone Together" sets an ominous tone as Bancell narrates a love story in a doomed world, colored by a glassy synth that sounds as if it were summoned from a horror movie. A sense of longing...
Throughout 'Rendered Armor' familiar influences reveal themselves, but the band doesn’t rely on derivative imitation. Instead, Ritual Howls forge haunting atmospheres that are all their own, reaching into unexpected sonic domain. Each track unfolds with unnerving anticipation, as if sound tracking a chase scene in a surrealist western film. Bancell delivers his baritone above a jangling guitar like an incantation, evoking macabre, religious imagery laden with futuristic undertones. Propelled by Saginaw's often fuzzed-out bass and Samuels' dance club-friendly rhythms, it's no surprise that the band hails from the techno capital of the US.
Opening the album with a gloomy country-tinged guitar hook, "Alone Together" sets an ominous tone as Bancell narrates a love story in a doomed world, colored by a glassy synth that sounds as if it were summoned from a horror movie. A sense of longing...
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