Today, Eternal Death
sets July 22nd as the international release date for Ceremonial Worship's highly
anticipated second album, Seven Gateways to Eternal
Misanthropy, on vinyl LP format.
Hailing from Hellas itself, Ceremonial Worship formed
in 2016 and a year later made its public debut with a self-titled EP. The
singular creation of one High Priest C.W., Ceremonial
Worship is the ultimate expression of his individual
inner-darkness, which further manifested in another EP in 2018.
In 2021, Ceremonial Worship delivered
its first recording under the banner of Eternal Death with
a split tape with Filipino comrades Omenfilth,
jointly titled The Pact of Morbid Conspiracy.
The band's first full-length came at the beginning of 2022, titled Ode to Dionyssus, but in a very
limited edition. As such, one could qualify Seven
Gateways to Eternal Misanthropy as Ceremonial Worship's true
full-length debut.
Either way you cut it, Seven Gateways to Eternal
Misanthropy is a grim and challenging excursion into the
darkest depths of - YES - misanthropy. Whereas prior Ceremonial Worship recordings
exhibited the hallmarks of classic Hellenic black metal - thick, pulsing walls
of dread and doom, with simple 'n' straightforward songwriting driving the
point home - with Seven Gateways to Eternal
Misanthropy, mainman High Priest C.W. goes a more abstracted route.
Drums are still primitive and indeed pulsing and his vocals suitably throaty in
their anguish, but it's the man's weird, wild riffing that makes the album so
eerie and disturbing: at once atonal and melodic, impossibly distant but
somehow forceful, with well-timed explosions of melted soloing. Instead of the
usual parallels to the "Big Three" of Greek black metal (Rotting
Christ, Varathron, Necromantia), we can point to that pivotal scene's stranger
outliers like Disharmony, Fiendish Nymph, Zephyrous, and early Vorphalack as
aesthetic analogues.
Not for this world, not for this time, Ceremonial Worship inhabits
its own unique void of misery. Step into these Seven
Gateways to Eternal Misanthropy and emerge transformed...or
ruined.
Transform or ruin with the brand-new track "Opus Blood" HERE
at Eternal Death's Bandcamp, where
the album can also be preordered. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting
for Ceremonial Worship's Seven Gateways to Eternal Misanthropy
1. Intro
2. True Evil in Me
3. Death From Mountain Hills
4. Opus Blood
5. Orders Beyond Horizon
6. Vomitous Moon
7. Path of Burning Ambitions
8. Vanishing Heaven
1. Intro
2. True Evil in Me
3. Death From Mountain Hills
4. Opus Blood
5. Orders Beyond Horizon
6. Vomitous Moon
7. Path of Burning Ambitions
8. Vanishing Heaven
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