Title: Ritual of the Lost
Artist: Hiss of Atrocities
Genre: Metal
Release Date: May 2009
Label: Independent
Album Review
HISS OF ATROCITIES, or HOA for short, formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 2005. Thus causing these metal masters to display their own creativity in their best format possibly consisting purely of high powering drum tactics blended in well with unrelenting guitar riffs with expecting guitar solos thrown in between, pouring out this sound fuelled by a high pulsing energy that cannot be explained. But perhaps there is one way to explain it and that’s through the 12-tracks that have been engraved upon HOA’s latest album ‘Ritual Of The Lost’, a combination of melodic metal sound waves mixed in with fast overlapping beatings of thrash metal entangled with the death metal attitude.
In short, the vocal chords are death metal inspired with their growls and shouts slithering around the music in the backdrop allowing the guitars to craft their own creative riffs with ground-breaking solos that rattle the music straight to the core perspective. HOA delivers, when it comes to ‘Cost Me Everything’, ‘Rituals of Sufferance’ and ‘Empty Earth’, a selection of tunes that make the music stand out the most really capturing HOA’s musical essence and vibrations that never seems to get old but add this refreshing texture you can always fall back upon.
Tracklist
01. Somnium
02. Rituals of Aggression
03. Red
04. Cost Me Everything
05. Inferi
06. Rituals of Sufferance
07. Visions
08. Empty Earth
09. Imbed the Grief
10. Closedown
11. Conscientia
12. Rituals of Repentance
Line-up
Francesco Artusato - Guitar
Roy Lev Ari - Guitar
Giovanni Dürst - Drums
Mike Zero - Vocals
Website
http://www.myspace.com/hissofatrocities / http://www.hissofatrocities.com/
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 9
Sound: 9
Extras: -
Total: 9 / 10
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