Release
date: July 15th 2016. Label: Self Released. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
Lost
Ritual – Tracklisting
Bring
Out Your Dead
Halfway
To Hell
Motörhead
Evil
Or Mental
Ten
Of Swords
Dogshit
Blues
Hangman
Shit
Outta Luck
Coming
Home
Unleash
The Serpent
Band
Members:
John
Loughlin - vocals
Frank
Regan - vocals
Jim
Palmer - guitar
Jamie
Thompson - guitar
Dave
Thompson - bass
Gordon
Morrison - drums
Review:
RAGING
FUCKING SPEEDHORN ARE BACK!!!!!
Or
in other words listening to this transports me back to 2000 and I'm
20 years old again, and I've just heard Thumper for the first time.
RSH were my gateway drug. They led me onto harder and nastier drugs,
like Iron Monkey and EyeHateGod, but they were my first. And I'll
always love them for that.
Along
with the aforementioned bands RSH changed my perception on heavy
music, and how it could sound. In
recent years my band had the privilege of opening up one of the shows
on their comeback tour, and I can tell you I've never been as nervous
before a gig as I was that day. They were nothing short of
magnificent and treated us to an hour or so of all the hits, and one
new song (Halfway To Hell, which features on this album and had a
limited 7" release a little while ago)
So,
with all that in mind I was almost nervous as I pressed play on the
review copy that found it's way into my inbox....
Within
seconds I was in sludge heaven as RSH have lost none of the
intensity, groove or swagger that made them so vital the first time
around.
First
track "Bring Out Your Dead" is as heavy as bag full of
concrete spanners, buried under another bag full of concrete
spanners, but because it's RSH it's still as catchy as chlamydia and
just as fucking nasty (I imagine....)
The
next few tracks, "Halfway To Hell", "Motorhead"
and the surely soon to be fan favourite "Evil Or Mental"
complete with certified Gold crowd sing -a - long chorus all thunder
by in just a matter of minutes.
It
wasn't until the filthy strains of "Ten Of Swords" or "The
Hangman" that I noticed it. Alongside everything you would want
or expect from a RSH record the band have got a whole lot more
sinister. More intricate backing guitar parts than before, quieter
almost whispered vocals and an excellent use of build ups give this
album an air of absolute menace in places.
As
soon as these songs become public domain and the next tour hits town
I predict a rise in diagnosed cases of whiplash all over the UK. So
yeah. Raging Speedhorn are back. By all accounts they gave one of, if
not the performance of The DesertFest just a few weeks back.
How
fitting that a band that spawned so many of the leading bands from
today's sludge movement are back to take their place at the top of
the pile.
In
short. You need this record.
Words
by Simon Ross Williams
Thanks
to Tom at Polymath PR for the promo. Lost Ritual will be available to
buy from Pledge Music on CD/DD/Vinyl from July 15th 2016.
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