The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual

The face-melting Detroit quintet has made a career out of being unpredictable - as well as unhinged, unclassifiable and unrepentant, all in the best possible ways. But with RITUAL, it's fifth full-length album, the extreme metal troupe found fertile territory in the wide world of those prescribed practices that would seem verboten to a band that's always marched to the double-time beat of it's own drummer. Following up 2009's acclaimed DEFLORATE, which brought The Black Dahlia Murder the highest Billboard chart positions of it's 10-year career, RITUAL revels in both conceptual ambition and equally striking musical growth from a band that's pushed itself into more extreme and challenging territory on each successive release.

1) A Shrine to Madness
2) Moonlight Equilibrium
3) On Stirring Seas of Salted Blood
4) Conspiring with the Damned
5) The Window
6) Carbonized in Cruciform
7) Den of the Picquerist
8) Malenchantments of the Necrosphere
9) The Grave Robber's Work
10) The Raven
11) Great Burning Nullifier
12) Blood in the Ink