Engraver – Rituals

 

 

Engraver – Rituals
Self released – 2023
Metal, Doom
Rated: ***

We’re on the verge of announcing the fact that the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2024 will commence in the middle of December and that you can send your votes in now. Cause the Countdown is made up out of all the votes of you crazies that take the time to send that list of favorite 2024 albums. But since that time is almost here, we looked at the massive ‘To Mention’ folder of amazing albums we would have loved to have mentioned throughout the year. It contains some 550 albums, that we never got around to mentioning on the HiVe… And as we glanced back towards January, we also noticed those albums that came out in the final week of December. Cause as you know, once the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown, we do nothing else but that. And albums during that final week, will have to be voted for THIS year.

And here’s one of them, released on December 29th, straight out of Gdansk, Poland, Engraver and their debut full-sized album Rituals. An eight track record that sees them use minor thrash and speed influences to spice up their metal, their doom and their stoner. Stabs of aggression and thunderous energy, bring their classic styled metal and doom even more to life. A so do the break downs and the build-ups. Diverse vocal treatments change the songs coloring from grunge to occult and gives you growling and incantated melodies. Rituals indeed. It’s good. And it might also serve as a warning to never release an album at the very end of the year…

(Written by JK)

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