RITUAL ASCENSION
Ritual Ascension coalesced around 2023 after Aberration completed their debut album. Three of its members (ex-Nothingness drummer E.C., Void Rot guitarist J.H. here also handing bass and lyrics, and bassist D.H. from Suffering Hour, here handling only vocals) reconvened to continue creating together and to keep pushing their deviant ideas forward. Initially a side project of truly grotesque lineaments began to take shape, but as things progressed, the members’ well established alchemy, vision, and experienced musicianship lead to the creation of an entirely new band under the name of Ritual Ascension, a vector for unseen auditory abominations expanding on the inspirational foundations laid by iconic Australian extreme doom bands like Temple Nightside, Disembowelment and Grave Upheaval. The defining aspect of the project thus became the slower and much more crushing and oppressive tempos of death-doom, while still retaining the dissonance and abstract songwriting approach from the original concept derived from Aberration. With five pachydermic tracks completed in 2024 and spread across an abysmal forty-seven running time, the band soon shaped their colossal debut full-length abomination, “Profanation of the Adamic Covenant”, an anti-religious, blasphemous, behemoth concept album dealing with some of the darkest and most sinister aspects in the history and theology of the so called Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon Church), and shaped by direct experiences by some of the band members themselves within said religious movement as well.