Grief Ritual Release ‘Gnaw’, the Second Single from Their Upcoming Debut Album – Collapse
On their debut album ‘Collapse’, the anger, frustration, and disenfranchisement Grief Ritual feel about the UK and the wider world are laid bare. It will be released via Church Road Records on January 31st, 2025. Now, the band has released the second single from the album, ‘Gnaw’.
Says the band about the new single:
Gnaw is about fighting for yourself and rising up through the systematic torrents of failure and frustration around us, to find support in our communities, through allyship and friendship, and to find LGBTQIA+ joy in expression and being ourselves.
Collapse is the follow-up to their self-released debut EP, Spiritual Disease. On it, 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.
Track listing:
1. Spiral
2. Recursion
3. Gnaw
4. Bile
5. Consumed
6. Fault
7. Artifice
8. Calcify
9. Swine
10. Putrefy
11. Marrow
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