lowheaven: Ritual Decay Debut Full-Length From Toronto Post-Metal Conjurors Out Today
Ritual Decay, the flooring debut full-length from Toronto-based post-metal conjurors lowheaven, is out today!
Ritual Decay serves as lowheaven’s visceral entry into the world, ripping straight through the wall of noise and into open ears. Pulling heavily from ‘90s influences like Cave In and Deftones, the record feels nostalgic in nature delivering ten tracks that explore the reality of complete social isolation and the acceptance of what it means to lose faith in life and yourself with technical prowess.
Of the band’s first single, “Chemical Pattern,” Kerrang championed, “smothering pop sensibilities in wailing noise and thundering riffs,” adding “it’s a glorious introduction to the band,” while New Noise lauded, “a barrage of barely contained chaos; the song explodes in a cacophony that leaves you stunned like a punch in the face.”
Of their follow-up single, “Mercy Death,” MetalSucks celebrated a, “…more prog metal, post-hardcore offering. ‘Mercy Death’ has a fuzzy electronic-induced undertone to it, and its vocals present as distorted, yearning echoes.”
Snaggletooth Rock ‘N’ Roll hails a record that “balances melodic tension with throat-ripping fury, triple-guitar chaos, and enough mood swings to scare your therapist.” Out Of Rage concurs, celebrating, “an extraordinary achievement. It sounds stunning, and frankly marks lowheaven out as a truly special act indeed. The material may be bleak, but their future is ironically bright,” while Everything Is Noise elaborates eloquently, “lowheaven put foot to ass for Ritual Decay, their first LP and strongest statement of intent yet as they howl at various voids that plague us all… For ten tracks, they want you to wallow and mope, contort and drag your hands across your face just as they did while producing them under tense and deprived circumstances. It’s hard to call an album like this fun, but when it sounds this nice and well-constructed, the contradiction is part of the point because if you have to feel bad, you might as well have a great mirror of a soundtrack to accompany it. This LP’s bold and unapologetic with how it feels, scraping together what sense of goodness and decency in presentation it can to remind us that at the end of the day, this is art and it’s meant to reflect what and who we are.”
Stream lowheaven’s Ritual Decay HERE.
Watch lowheaven’s previously released video for “Chemical Pattern” HERE, “Mercy Death” HERE, and “Amherst” HERE.
Ritual Decay was produced by Brett Romnes (Boston Manor, Hot Mulligan) and mastered by Mangus Lindberg.
The record is available now on CD, LP, and digital formats. Find orders at THIS LOCATION.
