#News #Stream Rötual – For The Dead
Death Doom Band Rötual To Release Its First Full-Length Album “For the Dead” On March 20th
“For the Dead” is the first full-length of Canadian death-doom entity Rötual. Taking inspiration from the 1990’s underground artistic scene, the musicians are revisiting the early days of death-doom metal, a time when riffs and melodies were bred into more direct forms of expression. As an analogy, imagine Obituary covering Candlemass, with lyrics written by Stephen King or James Herbert.
Rötual’s first full-length album is a serviceable 36 minutes. From the doomy introduction of ‘From the Dead’ and ‘Hell is Other People’, it then shifts to the death metal hooks of single ‘Worms.’ The album continues alternating between these melodic doom and groovy death metal moments, before ending on the dramatic anthem of ‘To Live Is to Rot.’
For the Dead was produced by Topon Das (Fuck the Facts), and mixed and mastered at Apartment 2 in Ottawa.
About Rötual
Hailing from the graveyard of Canada’s National Capital Region, Rötual is a relatively new metal entity. The band garners the experience of well-known musicians in the Gatineau and Ottawa scene (incl. Signs of Chaos, Norilsk, Cruel Fate, Whispers in the Maze, Dead Culture Society, ex-Fumigation, ex-Mörtor) who, instead of adding their collective influences, chose to strip it down to the bones. As a result, Rötual’s music could be associated with the slow riffs of doom metal, the heaviness and harsh vocals of death metal, melted into compact slabs of mid-pace (de)compositions. Rötual released a first EP, Wörms, in 2024. Presenting the terrible ear-worm single, with its infectious chorus and groovy riffs, this first EP also included two French alternative versions of songs to be found on the forthcoming full length album, thus illustrating the bilingual nature of the band. Since its inception in 2023, the band has performed live regularly, thus developing a strong stage personality. The time has now come to unearth the first full length release of the band, For the Dead.
Like a dead corpse with strabismus, Rötual’s rotten music has an eye turned to the past and one eye turned on you. It knows how to churn the tradition of old school death-doom, while also bringing forth a production and a live experience that speaks to today’s audience.
While there is no advanced track for stream, we leave t you the previous release named “Wörms”
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