Name: Rendered Armor
Brand: Ritual Howls

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Bonus disc: No

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FLT056cd

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-03-22

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Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

843563110287

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Ritual Howls

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Label US

Felte

Detroit's Ritual Howls is a band consisting of Paul Bancell, Ben Saginaw, and Chris Samuels. They combine samples from the physical world with guitar, vocals, bass, synth, and drum machines to create a unique blend of darkness and pop sensibility. With lyrics that would impress Lovecraft himself and sounds that bring his macabre tales to life, Ritual Howls creates a surreal and introspective gloom. Their music could easily fuel a disco in hell or serve as the soundtrack to your darkest nightmares.
Paul Bancell provides haunting lyrics while Chris Samuels and Ben Saginaw contribute eerie sounds that transport listeners into their own macabre fantasies. Together, they craft an atmosphere that is both unsettling and captivating.
If you're looking for music that defies convention and delves into the depths of darkness, look no further than Ritual Howls. Their music will leave you spellbound and craving more.

New Wave / Post Punk

Ritual Howls create a cinematic blend of twangy industrial-rock that could fuel a post-apocalyptic dancefloor. The Detroit trio's fourth full-length, Rendered Armor, follows the Their Body EP of 2018 with expansive arrangements sculpted with masterful production. Available here on white colored vinyl, standard black vinyl, and CD.

Throughout Rendered Armor familiar influences reveal themselves, but the band doesn’t rely on derivative imitation. Instead, Ritual Howls forge haunting atmospheres that are all their own, reaching into unexpected sonic domain. Each track unfolds with unnerving anticipation, as if sound tracking a chase scene in a surrealist western film. Bancell delivers his baritone above a jangling guitar like an incantation, evoking macabre, religious imagery laden with futuristic undertones. Propelled by Saginaw's often fuzzed-out bass and Samuels' dance club-friendly rhythms, it's no surprise that the band hails from the techno capital of the US.

Opening the album with a gloomy country-tinged guitar hook, "Alone Together" sets an ominous tone as Bancell narrates a love story in a doomed world, colored by a glassy synth that sounds as if it were summoned from a horror movie. A sense of longing pervades "Thought Talk" with its subdued, hi-hat accented tempo, spacious bass line and reverb soaked guitars that ring out with melancholy. Ritual Howls' most mature offering to date, Rendered Armor finds the band further carving out their own eclectic mix of organic instrumentation and pulsing electronics, distinguishing them as a unique force in the current landscape of underground music.

Rendered Armor

Music US