[TumorCD89] Abjection Ritual – Futility Rites

With two previously self-released CDrs, Erie, Pennsylvania’s Abjection Ritual grabbed our attention by creating a particularly bleak and virulent strain of death industrial that takes the unbridled, feral violence of American power electronics and combines it with the classic charnel house, necro-atmospherics of vintage Cold Meat Industry (BDN, MZ.412, In Slaughter Natives). Futility Rites is his proper debut, and it fully delivers on the promise and potential of earlier material. From the slow, caustic crawl of “Aversor”, “Entropic Embrace”, or “Tabernacle of Teeth and Tongues”, to the heavily mechanized grind, razor sharp frequencies and lurching physicality of the title track or “Objects of Wrath”, each of the 8 tracks here are impenetrably dark and filled with oppressive dread, culminating in a release that immediately propels Abjection Ritual to the front of the pack when it comes to malevolent, post-apocalyptic electronics. For fans of Steel Hook Prostheses, The Vomit Arsonist, Brighter Death Now, In Slaughter Natives.

Label: Malignant Records
Cat#: TumorCD89
Artist: Abjection Ritual
Format: Album, 8 x File, Digital / CD
Released: 15 September 2015
In 6 panel digipak designed by Brian Van Der Pol
Mastered by John Stillings at Steel Hook Audio.

1. Aversor – 4:21
2. Barren – 4:10
3. Objects Of Wrath – 5:26
4. Scum Immersion – 6:05
5. Thrust In Thy Sickle And Reap – 6:20
6. Entropic Embrace – 6:55
7. Futility Rites – 7:09
8. Tabernacle Of Teeth And Tongues – 7:40

Abjection Ritual – Psychiatric Failures

‘The follow-up to the well received self titled Abjection Ritual debut was inspired by mental illness, past and present abuses within institutions, the letters of Antonin Artaud, and the early anti-psychiatry movement. As I alluded to in my review of the first CD, Abjection Ritual is perhaps the definitive new force in American death industrial / power electronics, and the 7 tracks here only solidify that; grim constructions that alternate between being hyper violent and explosive to more bleak arrangements of nauseating electronics and radioactive waste, with a vocal delivery that just ramps things up to impossible levels of intensity. Tightly focused, perfectly executed, and about as good as anything you’re bound to hear all year..

Artist: Abjection Ritual
Format: Album, 7 x File, Digital / CDR
Released: 06 January 2015

1. Psychotropic Communion – 4:39
2. Cursed Receptor – 6:56
3. Anti-Psychiatry – 5:57
4. Beyond Weights And Measures – 3:34
5. Traversing Bedlam – 5:01
6. Black Box Abuse – 5:48
7. To Silence That Which Plagues Me – 8:45