Metalcore crew, Grief Ritual, recently announced they will release their debut album, Collapse, via Church Road Records on 31st January 2025. Now, they have dropped their latest single, “Spiral,” taken from the full-length, and accompanied by an official video. Check it out below.
Pre-order Collapse here: https://griefritualmusic.bandcamp.com/album/collapse
““Spiral” is about theft – the stealing of wages, time, health, lifespan, potential, and hope. We live in a world where the majority are underpaid, living pay-check to pay-check and unable to live a safe, happy, fulfilling life due to years of cronyism, austerity, and greed from those who have found themselves above society. We have had years of derision, years of those at the top being complicit in genocide, and war. Years of being let down by successive bigoted corrupt governments who promise much but deliver little.” – Grief Ritual
Collapse is the follow-up to their self-released debut EP Spiritual Disease, which caught the attention of many major publications. On their debut album Collapse, the anger, frustration, and disenfranchisement they feel about the UK and the wider world are laid bare. Human extinction, capitalism, genocide, ecocide, and the rise of populist right authoritarianism are explored in garish detail across the record. Collapse has an abundance of riffs, breakdowns and a bass tone fit to tear down the establishment. Dualling vocals from a wide spectrum of extreme metal influences can be heard throughout the record, providing the perfect centerpiece for these eleven tracks of despotic terror.
The band has not only caught the attention of many with their recorded output but they have also been riling up crowds with their explosive live performances. In the band’s short existence they have already made appearances at festivals such as Bloodstock, 2000 Trees, ArcTanGent and Tech Fest. Grief Ritual have also supported Knocked Loose, Terror, Gatecreeper, END, Fuming Mouth, Heriot, Wiegedood, Ithaca, Inter Arma and Pupil Slicer. The band passed their one-hundred-show marker in early 2024 proving their unwavering commitment to their art and the important messages behind it.
Collapse tracklisting:
01 Spiral
02 Recursion
03 Gnaw
04 Bile
05 Consumed
06 Fault
07 Artifice
08 Calcify
09 Swine
10 Putrefy
11 Marrow