Degenerate and “Rituals of Rage” are both great names for Metal music. Together they make an unbeatable duo even more if we get to know their simple, raw, and ravishing music with sharp simple guitar riffs that address to 1980’s Extreme Metal, more specifically to Thrash Metal and early Death Metal. Their music triggered some memories in my mind.
“Rituals of Rage” is an album that tricks the fan with its unique combination of the aforementioned 1980’s Extreme Metal sonancy and its take on the modern Melodic Death Metal. Fun fact is that the more I hear the album, the more technical details I find in it that make me reconsider to say they are simple and raw. Ravishing is still okay with me.
Maybe, just maybe the nright thing to say is that “Rituals of Rage” has enough elements of both sides; the raw and simples combined with the modern and melodic. While welcome track “Servitor” and its following “Xenon Equilibrium” do sound as the first, third track “The Cult” begins to showcases more and more Melodic Death Metal features. “Illuminate” folows the same Melodic Death Metal road the band is taking with more complex guitar riffing and more melodic items.
As far as I am concerned, I like it better when Degenerate take the road to rawville because as fun as it sounds it makes the band sound more original. The convertion to Melodic Death Metalmake them sound as everybody else. Tracks as “The Blacksmith“ with its ravishing mood make them sound good to me even though both sides of the band are melted. The beginning of “Faceless Violence“ gives me the same feeling even though the track goes to a standard Melodic Death Metal track in the end. But it’s tittle track “Rituals of Rage,” whose frantic drumming takes the fan by the guts, that may be the best track of the album and the one which represents the band the best.
Degenerate “Rituals of Rage” was self-released on May 23rd.
Track Listing:
- Servitor
- Xenon Equilibrium
- The Cult
- Illuminate
- Sentence of Death
- Claymore
- Faceless Violence
- The Blacksmith
- Rituals of Rage
- The Desert
Watch “Faceless Violence” official music video here:
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!