RITUALS RELEASE EP ‘I FOUND MYSELF IN THE DARK’ & DROP NEW VIDEO ‘CATACLYSM’

Rituals are an exciting prospect for new UK metal and the new EP ‘I Found Myself In The Dark’, which is out now via Marshall Records, is a great example of the potential this band has. The EP is a perfect mix of heavy and melodic elements, with plenty of memorable sing-a-long hooks as well as crushing riffs and slick grooves. These 3 new songs are extremely well thought out structurally with great production and are bound to have crowds singing, jumping and moshing along around the country. This has all come about as a result of hard work crafting their sound and building a fan base which was rewarded when they became the winners of Kerrang! Radio’s The Deal competition in which they won a contract to record and release with Marshall Records and play at this years Download Festival.

The new single and video for “Cataclysm” demonstrates all these qualities with huge detuned riffs and screamed vocals contrasted with an enormous anthemic chorus. Speaking on the song vocalist Lewis MacRae says: “It’s undoubtedly the heaviest track on the release,”  “the lowest the guitars have been tuned, the most visceral and evil the lyrics have ever been… It’s frantic and destructive.”

“The pure force behind the song drove me down this road of frantically watching horror movies, digging out old video games to play as characters that walked through a world simply devastating all in their path.”

“After several days of delving into gory games and movies the song theme was clear as day. It needed to be evil and needed to be violent. So, the theme of demons, slaughter and being dragged to hell to endure eternal torment run deep within Cataclysm… It might not one to play at the dinner table, but it’s certainly circle pit material.”

Check out the video here:

Watch our interview with Rituals here: