THE RITE zapodiadają drugi album

 

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces August 11th as the international release date for The Rite's highly anticipated second album, The Astral Gloom, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

The Rite was formed in autumn 2017 when A.th (Black Oath) and Ustumallagam (Denial of God) joined forces to create a band that exclusively plays morbid black metal, praising complete and utmost darkness. Their influences range from iconic bands such as Mercyful Fate, Death SS, Celtic Frost, Samael, Goatlord, Ripper, and others, as well as occult literature. The music walks a fine line between slow and dreary parts and fast and merciless attacks, but by and large, it falls into the black/doom

category.

The recording of The Rite's five-track mini-album, The Brocken Fires, was finished in August 2018 and originally released on tape by Unholy Domain Records in October 2018. In August 2019, the mini-album was then released on CD and 12" vinyl formats by Iron Bonehead and successively received a great response from the underground scene.

In 2022, The Rite's lineup underwent some changes. The original drummer, P. Guts, was replaced by someone else who the band parted ways with just days before their third show at Winter Metal Magic in Denmark. War D. (Morbus Grave) stepped in at the last moment and saved the day, and has been with the band ever since. A second guitar player was found in M. Desecrator (VomitVulva, Funest), making The Rite a five-piece band, even stronger in their live performances.

Despite being busy with both Denial of God and Black Oath, The Rite began working intensely on the follow-up to Liturgy of the Black. After some initial rehearsals, their second album was recorded in December 2022. Titled The Astral Gloom, The Rite's new album contains another 10 tracks, proving as dark and dynamic as ever, with creepier excursions into quieter territory and an even more heightened atmospheric element without losing any heaviness - thus, the title The Astral Gloom is more than fitting. That heaviness is provocatively played to the hilt with this two-guitar lineup, and the lead parts evoke a macabre majesty only hinted at before. Once again, The Rite choose a unique cover - this time, the Lollipops' "Naked When You Come," an eerie psychedelic pop song from 1966 - and they truly make it their own.

With this new lineup bolstered and better than ever, The Rite seek to take their morbid metal to the stage more often and promote The Astral Gloom as fully as possible. The black bells toll more ominously than ever, the veil between worlds begins to open...step forth into The Astral Gloom!

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Nosophoros" HERE at Iron Bonehead's Soundcloud. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for The Rite's The Astral Gloom

1. Intro - The Evocation

2. The Spirit of Mendes

3. The Fathomless Dark

4. Under A Lunar Spell

5. Walpurgis Night

6. The Astral Gloom

7. Nosophoros

8. Naked When You Come

9. The Valley of Megiddo

10. Outro - Sheol