MASTER'S HAMMER — Rituál (review)

MASTER'S HAMMER — Rituál album cover Album · 1990 · Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
Warthur
Ritual's debut album offers a sound which wavers between Bathory-esque thrashy early black metal and the matured black metal sound of the Norwegian wave. Recorded at the tail end of 1990, it's ample proof that when people list the names of black metal's innovators, Master's Hammmer have been left off all too often. Even if they did have some influence from the Norwegian crowd - I believe Mayhem were touring with Dead at around this point - the band's mastery of the second wave black metal style this early on is incredibly impressive, as is their bold inclusion of subtle technical and progressive elements to their compositions. It seems that no sooner have they mastered the stripped down and raw style of second wave black metal that they've taken it further, offering an early model for the more technically polished side of the genre. It's an incredible album and it doesn't deserve the obscurity it's languished in for so long.
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