Once you begin listening to Ceremonial Bloodbath there is simply no escaping the enormous tidal wave of bestial brutality that this band is capable of delivering. The Vancouver BC based death metal maniacs in Ceremonial Bloodbath unleash upon the metal world a devastating onslaught with the release of their debut album full-length album, “The Tides of Blood.”
The metal community has been gifted quite a few solid death metal releases so far and “The Tides of Blood” is right up there in terms of sheer extreme ferocity. Ceremonial Bloodbath’s raw aggressive approach to making monstrous sounding recordings is definitely something that stands out right away when listening to this album. I do not think there was one moment where I was disinterested, because the overall production and profound nature of this band’s creative mindset is executed extremely well through out the entire release. Again, some bands are able to produce a behemoth sounding death metal release, while some bands sound like they can’t record their way out of a paper bag.
I thought that the opening track on album, “Command Sacrifice,” does a great job establishing the ominous tone by incorporating these insidious sounding cinematic like sounds. As the haunting music slowly fades, the band instantly dives right into a tormenting death metal frenzy full of bone sawing riffs and merciless blast beats. The singer lays down some of the truly grotesque and unforgiving vocals to compliment the unholy atmosphere that is drenched in pure pestilent sounding death metal. On the next song, “Book of Black Blessings,” the band’s drummer kicks off the song by completely decimating listeners with a flurry of skull pounding drum parts. The entire band plays with fearsome precision thus allowing you to become completely consumed by the darkness spewing out of the speakers.
As the album moves relentless forward the band continues to desecrate all that is holy by hammering out more sinister arrangements. For example, “Hordes of Demons Feeding,” is a gruesome old school death metal feast full of sadistic sounding riffs. Also, I really enjoyed how right after the song finishes they offer up this very occult like sounding piece of music called, “The Void Staring Back.” The mesmerizing celestial sounds are almost inhuman and the sound of goats makes you feel as if you are entering into an infernal realm of unimaginable chaos. Right after this short piece of music ends the band maintains a raw and ravenous mentality on the next fews songs.
Tracks like, “Hammer Throne,” “Seven Wells” and “Ceremonial Bloodbath,” are dynamic cuts of music that showcase this band’s exceptional extreme music making prowess. I think, “Seven Wells,” is the highlight track off of the album and features some cataclysmic like compositions as well as more horrifying death growls. Arguably some of the most nightmare inducing riffs featured on the entire album.
I honestly do believe that Ceremonial Bloodbath’s, “The Tides of Blood,” is a tremendous debut full-length album, and even though there are countless bands that play this style of extreme music, not all of them are able to put together a crushing album from start to finish. Of course, the album is being released through Sentient Ruin Laboratories, so right away I am going to highly recommend that people check it out. Ceremonial Bloodbath is on a destructive conquest to bestow upon the metal world an album that shall leave a trail of carnage in their wake, so do not even think about passing this album up!
Check out the song "Primitive" below (Album comes out October 23, 2020):
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