Meet your dooooom! Was that ominous enough? Is that how you do it? As a card-carrying death/doom disliker, I’m a bit out of my depth with today’s premiere for turtle-tempo’d upstarts Ritual Ascension. “Slow and crushing,” their label Sentient Ruin says, and somewhat inspired by Grave Upheaval and Temple Nightside. I’ve certainly heard some of those words before. Ah, but upon finding out that these folks are not upstarts at all, even I can gather my bearings, for while newly-formed, Ritual Ascension features members from stalwart peddlers of murk such as Void Rot, Aberration, and Suffering Hour. Why, this seems … Continue reading Track Premiere: Ritual Ascension – “Kolob (At the Throne of Elohim)”