we are already in may and here i am with the second new release of 2019. this year seems to become pretty weak in terms of new outputs. nevermind, i have a few in pre-order pipelines, so stuff won't get boring. now on to this lovely new misery index album called "rituals of power". it has been five years since their last album "the killing gods" was released, so it was about time.
when i heard news of the album, i checked pre-order options and stumbled upon the tape version offered by emp mailorder. i already have two albums on cassette by misery index ("retaliate" and "the killing gods", although i didn't write about the latter one yet) and so it seemed like a sensible idea to add another one.
"rituals of power" is a great record all the way through. it's the band's typical mixture of grooving u.s. death metal and fast grind core attacks that misery index perfected in their time of being. the tape version looks slick as well. nice clear blue shell and a j-card with all lyrics and production credits. don't know how many have been made. season of mist records. 2019.
