Cosmic Void Ritual

COSMIC VOID RITUAL set release date for IRON BONEHEAD debut mini-album, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets September 21st as the international for Cosmic Void Ritual’s highly anticipated debut mini-album, Grotesque Infections of Planetary Divide, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats.

The sole work of one Unknown Entity, in its short lifespan, Cosmic Void Ritual has already released three demos, each one as provocatively titled as the next – Gateways Through Septic Flesh, Transcendence Through Galactic Death, and the Iron Bonehead-released Vitriol Tablet Instructions: Rehearsing Speeches For When You Die – as well as a split with Mark Riddick’s Fetid Zombie, most recently. Across all those works was a decidedly bizarre yet resolutely raw form of death metal, harkening to short-lived cults of the ’90s yet exhibiting a totally terrifying identity all its own. Alas, all coalesces into Cosmic Void Ritual’s Grotesque Infections of Planetary Divide.

Once again, Unknown Entity has exercised keen judgment in titling this work Grotesque Infections of Interplanetary Divide: its four songs are indeed grotesque, and most certainly do they impart a cosmic aspect that’s as primordial as it is post-futuristic. Utterly raw and rotten, here Cosmic Void Ritual shapeshift all sorts of vulgar shapes, its death metal filth turned inside out as tendrils of lurking dread encase the listener in a cocoon of nameless horror. Just like its evocative cover art, Grotesque Infections of Interplanetary Divide resides within a monochromaticism that’s paradoxically visual; the ceaselessly slipstreaming sturm und klang of it all imparts a madness that’s seemingly random, but comes into clearer focus the deeper one drowns within the cavern of said cocoon. The question, then, is not simply whether you will eventually emerge but, rather, how.

“Intestinal Rituals,” “Interplanetary Seeds,” “Cataclysmic Brutality,” and especially “Charred Asteroid Fields”: these are the four Grotesque Infections of Interplanetary Divide that Cosmic Void Ritual conjures. How will YOU emerge?

Begin the plunge with the aforementioned new track “Intestinal Rituals” HERE

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Cosmic Void Ritual’s Grotesque Infections of Planetary Divide
1. Intestinal Rituals
2. Interplanetary Seeds
3. Cataclysmic Brutality
4. Charred Asteroid Fields

MORE INFO:
www.cosmicvoidritual.bandcamp.com

BLOOD HARVEST to release new tapes from COSMIC VOID RITUAL, DRAGHKAR, and ENSEPULCHER

On October 6th, Blood Harvest Records will release three brand-new cassette tapes: Cosmic Void Ritual’s The Excreted Remains of the Sabatier System, Draghkar’s World Unraveled, and Ensepulcher’s No Sanctity in Death. More info follows below.

***

The work of one Unknown Entity, Cosmic Void Ritual is pure ’90s death metal insanity, seeking the outer reaches of the genre by combining labyrinthine songwriting with levitational atmosphere; imagine Demlich crossed with Timeghoul, if you will. So far, Cosmic Void Ritual has recorded two two-track demos – one which was an extremely limited cassette, the other exclusively on Bandcamp – and now Blood Harvest combines them onto one tape entitled The Excreted Remains of the Sabatier System. If the title alone didn’t say enough, then surely titles like “Entrail Star Formation (Planetary Extinction Phase III)” and “Mists of Intoxicating Conquest (The Demise of Entire Universes – Moon IV)” should!

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Cosmic Void Ritual’s The Excreted Remains of the Sabatier System
1. Leaking Alien Sacrelige (Surgical Entropy Pt I)
2. The Fall…Relic Death Spells (Lifeless Post-Surgical Being Pt II)
3. Entrail Star Formation (Planetary Extinction Phase III)
4. Mists of Intoxicating Conquest (The Demise of Entire Universes – Moon IV)

Draghkar’s debut recording, World Unraveled, was originally released earlier this year, but only digitally. Murky and miasmic, this California duo expertly craft death metal with a most doomed-out splendor. The way each of the three songs comprising World Unraveled surge and slither, wend and wind, is warped and always unsettling – and always surprising; literally, this sounds like its title. Completed by a grungy ‘n’ gangrenous recording, Draghkar make quite an opening statement!

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Draghkar’s World Unraveled
1. Wings Over Malkier
2. Cowering In The Town Of Blinded Eyes
3. World Unraveled

Ensepulcher’s debut recording, No Sanctity in Death, was originally released earlier this year on cassette, but in an extremely limited edition. Ensepulcher may be a relatively new entity, but this California duo collectively have deep roots in their state’s death metal scene, with both members concurrently doing time in Fiend. With such a grounding, it’s no surprise that No Sanctity in Death does exactly what it says: filthy and galloping DEATH METAL done the ancient Swedish way, and with ghastly ‘n’ guttural vocals to boot.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ensepulcher’s No Sanctity in Death
1. Intro/No Sanctity in Death
2. Perishing in Morbidity
3. Death and Decay
4. Funeral Cessation