Ritual, mediocre black metal interview
Some of you may sadly remember a highly derivative and tedious US black metal band called Ritual who released some stuff on Wild Rags a few years back. Probably most of you who’ve actually heard of them only know them through a Xasthur cover version, which was just as dreary as the original.
At the time of their activity the band were derided for their laughable attempts to not only copy the Norwegian bands in sound, but also in action. But whereas the Norwegian bands made supreme music and burned churches, Ritual only made dire music that had next to no connection with the music of Immortal, Burzum et al beyond shallow surface aesthetic, paving the way for hordes of other hopeless “me too” black metal. And their “heinous, shocking crime” that they still make so much of today was to merely spray graffiti on a church like some retarded ghetto kid from a broken home.
Anyway, we got wind recently (a distinctly pooey wind) that the mediocre fools were back in action, and trying to reinvent the past with themselves as some sort of “cult” and “legendary” band, ho ho. So it seemed only right that we subject them to our usual rigorous interview process!
1) Are you still spraypainting churches in a rather dismal attempt at emulating the Norwegians?
(A) If I were to vandalize churches these days. I would spray paint violent bible passages so that believers would question the insanity of the book they follow. True Satanism/Luciferianism is a spiritual rebellion and not against Christians, but rather the restrictions placed on the mind by their beliefs. We seek to transform the individual through magick into something better. The Norwegian kings sold out for more wealth and their mothers were tired of seeing their sons killed in battle. Returning to their Pagan past would never work because they would sell out again.
2) I take it you’re working on new material, is it as boring and generic as the debut?
(A) Generic compared to what? The sell out Life Metal being released every week! Ritual’s debut is considered a classic. You obvioulsy were not around to appreciate it back in the day and compare to the countless clone bands of today. The new material will be unlike anything heard as it follows no rulebook and brings many new sounds and atmospheres into the songcraft.
3) Are you going to keep making a big deal out of the vague Xasthur connection for promotional purposes and so as to interest hipsters in your music?
(A) Hipsters are fair weather fans and we don’t have enough emo parts to our music for them so no. Xasthur has covered Ritual and has been a friend for 15 years. We simply listed every ex member of the band and their work outside of the band so no one would bitch. Are you a fan or an internet tough guy? I’ve faced numerous attempts on my life in prison and would gladly print my address for you to ask me these questions in person if you’d like.
4) Are you going to fix the Ritual logo so that it actually works on a black background? The wing is fucked at the moment because you’ve just made it a negative image, you see.
(A) That is the site created by Ian Fleming (guitarist). I’m not aware of the wing being fucked up but I will take a look at it. Are you going to fix your myspace page and add more than 24 people and post a picture of yourself so I can buy you a drink when we meet? I’m sure this is some jealous asshole from the past who never made any music of his own.
5) Any last words?
(A) Do you have any last words?
Well, seeing as you ask:
1) Don’t believe the inevitable hype kids, Ritual’s debut was NEVER considered a classic album. Sure, it gained them a brief popularity due to being in the right place at the right time (the mid-90s when black metal became increasingly popular and therefore eventually populist in outlook, and in the relatively black metal-free US). Ritual were one of the earliest bands from the US to start cloning the Norwegians and they even failed at that. Ritual were soon forgotten once I Shalt Become achieved Ritual’s pathetically low ambitions far more successfully. People who knew the US underground at that time were aware of acts like Havohej and Profanatica, you know, bands that actually had their own voice and good music and stuff. So Ritual were ever so slightly redundant even then.
The band later came back to people’s attention after a Xasthur cover version, much like how Nargaroth brought a couple of forgotten mediocre bands like Lord Foul into the kvlt limelight. They were quickly forgotten again however, as the music was DULL and BORING.
2) Accusing us of being “internet toughguys” seems a bit rich coming from someone who goes on to utter this classic of keyboard warriorism: “I’ve faced numerous attempts on my life in prison and would gladly print my address for you to ask me these questions in person if you’d like.”
3) You’d think someone stupid enough to spraypaint their own band logo on a church and expect not to get caught would be somewhat embarrassed of their actions. But not Ritual, they’ve tried to build a career out of it. Hilariously, the official Ritual myspace now classes the band as “Criminal Black Metal”, even going so far as to print t-shirts bearing this idiotic slogan. Yo nigga, Ritual in da house!!! We done time for dat badass spraypaint job we did on a church! Dat makes us fuckin’ tuff!!!! And not at all stoopid! Hip hop gangsta black metuhl muthafuckas!!!!
A representative of the band then contacted us again with a further message with a link to the Ritual myspace page, as if to placate us or make us change our minds:
“This is the real Ritual page established by the creator of the band Robert 1993. Ian has created a page of his own and may write music here and there as he is busy with other projects non related to Black Metal. New Ritual music is on display here. If you don’t like it so be it.”
Amen!
Tags: black metal, church vandalism, myspace, ritual, ritual (us), the summoning, USBM, wild rags, xasthur
September 1st, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Great job ripping off The Onion, Extermination Zone, & Answer Me zine! The problem with you is that your life so safe and boring you could only imagine what is was like to be a part of the scene back then. You live a dull life waiting for the next Star Wars movie, work as a tech geek for a gaming company, get set up on blind dates by your sister, and have created an alter ego through this lame site.
If I were to beat the living shit out of you, you’d simply try to sue me because you lack balls Jr. Your an asshole online because your a weakling in real life. You tried to start a Black Metal band and failed, so now you want to belittle the genre. The problem is I’m not that guy you think I am. I’m so glad that the 90% of morons in this world make you so unhappy. I hope it affects you and your children in the worst way possible.
Your kind is going to die, the intellectual smart ass who hates everything is going to watch his house burn down, by the very scum he despises but didn’t do anything about. Your the minority, and your government doesn’t give two shits about you. I look forward to more terrorism in your country and hopefully your girlfriend/wive can be blown to pieces on her way to fuck some guy with the balls you lack.
Sincerly Robert Ritual
September 1st, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Ha, ha Ray Spinoza Prozak the pussy who ran from Mike Of Ritual 10 years ago. Don’t worry your secrets safe with me!
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:17 am
Um, I’m not Spinoza Ray Prozak, I’m just a guy who thinks your band sucks and decided to call you out on it. Especially when you try to rewrite history by claiming your debut turd has any kind of classic status (you know damn well it doesn’t but hope the urban kidz who mostly make up the black metal fanbase now don’t know that).
I did think the ANUS.com review of Ritual’s debut that Prozak wrote back in the day was spot on though.
Oh and yeah, I can only imagine the mystic aura that surrounded the scene back then when you spraypainted that church, must have been quite the spiritual experience.
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:25 am
“The problem is I’m not that guy you think I am.”
So you’re NOT a retarded ghetto kid from a broken home? Oh my mistake, easily done all things considered.
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:46 am
shame ritual. try again.
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:23 am
Why do you do an interview with a band you obviously don’t like and want to talk shit about AFTERWARDS? That’s really a cheap shot and how is that not being an internet tough guy?
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:26 am
Hahaha, great troll. Ritual always sucked. “Criminal black metal” oh LOL!!!
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:30 pm
You are Ray Prozak, same writing style, same heroes etc. You mean to tell me out of all the shitty bands out there killing pigeons as a gimmick and recreating the same banned concert performances and you had to go for my band. We never claimed to make history or be the most extreme band in existence. The Ritual record was simply a good record at the time borrowing influence from Bathory, Celtic Frost the same as the Norwegians were doing. It was the second wave moron, not the first. Ritual had other influences Tangerine Dream, Skinny Puppy, Godflesh, etc besides European Black Metal.
You are simply using your creative writing skills to hide the fact you are the nerd at the back of the club crying cause someone spilled a drink on you. Your a geek Ray, Mike was talking to you at a show and figured out who you were and you took off like a scared little girl. Obviously Anus.com failed because you don’t review records and simply use as many bigs words as you can to sound smart and it’s boring and generic like you say our debut is.
You say Havohej and Profanatica were the respected bands off the time? They were laughed at for rediculous lyrics, drinking piss, and posing nude in photographs. Although I bet the last part turned you on, they were not great acts.Did you know each Ritual release sold over 5,000 copies? How many did I Shalt Become sell? No one even heard of them back then until Odin re-released it as some unheard classic.
It’s obvious your grudge is something personal. Did I fuck your girlfriend or something?
Call me out in person the way Uwe Boll did and let’s settle it like men Ray. Bring a camera crew even. I’m not an internet warrior you are? You called me out, now back it up!
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:20 pm
It sure is strange how a “black metal” band can be praised as the “real deal” these days for being a big (little) man who kills pigeons and vermin for their stage show but some other band gets ridiculed and mocked for doing a bit of vandalism to a church.
Black Metal is gay, simple as that.
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Maybe you should give the guy his money back
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:07 am
WOW. Rob Rapetool (your likely nickname in da pen), your fantasies of comparing your manhood to Prozak’s and being a yardstick longer are entertaining enough to actually capture my attention for a moment. It’s a pity your albums are not. Don’t think that your motives for accusing the admin of this site of being Prozak are not transparent. While he clearly has a knack for satire and has intelligent judgement when it comes to music (among other things, which we at ANUS pride ourselves on), he is not Prozak. You wish he was, only because you could pretend for a moment that you actually pwnt the founder of ANUS and thus all of its like-minded branches, all of which think Ritual blows bullcock and is thus only appealing to hipster scum. Your extensive comments are not slick jabs, but merely breathe butthurt with every sentence. Oh, and you claim Ritual is influenced by Skinny Puppy and Tangerine Dream and Godflesh, and yet I am somehow not suprised to hear nothing but a derivative pseudo-emotional cash in on the mid-nineties black metal trend.
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:26 am
Hahahaha, Rob Ritual you are a joke.
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:54 am
So you sold over 5000 copies of each record huh?
Well I don’t know how to break this to you, but Dimmu Borgir sell a hell of a lot more than that, and they aren’t any fucking good either you fuckwit.
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:38 am
And in the end, it sounds like everyone’s really hurt about even a fingerprint being laid on a church.
5000 copies, not bad…what has your band sold?
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:41 am
Remember who interviewed who? Your website is a failed attempt at mixing The Onion with Blabbermouth.net. Did you spend all your lunch money on our cd and miss out on the Lord Of The Rings Happy Meal? Your the type that is never happy with anything, and will bitch and moan about the silliest details.
Did I make the record for you? Your the type that would download a record and complain you didn’t like it. You hoped I would tell all my friends and fans to go check out this website and talk a bunch of shit and bring attention to you right? I loved the bit about Malevolent Phil vaporizing an entire planet. That was good satire, but to pick an internet fight with an underground band who DOES this for the FANS is rather pointless.
Bill Zebub already did this style of interview 10 years ago. Your not doing anything new yourself. I see you got every hack journalist freelance writer to voice your opinion for you since you got the home court advantage.Would you like a refund though on the record? Did Pizza Hut lay you off sweety? Yes, Black Metal is the lucrative business venture indeed! How is Anus.com doing these days? Are you a Fortune 500 company yet?
So Spinoza stepped down for future generations to carry the torch. It’s amazing that a college graduate spends his time interviewing bands he hates for a website that has less hits than Ricky Martin. How many fans should I send your way? I like to help the homeless. This website is like the Weird Al movie UHF only alot less funny and with a nuetered Michael Richards. You guys only said ‘Nigga’, sorry got to give Michael Richards the edge on that one.
Come up with more stories like Malovolent Phil, or maybe the members of Watain killing an ostrich or something a little more menacing than pigeons with a slingshot. I did that in elementary and it’s still pretty lame. I’m sure your listening to some nice safe Black Metal made by true rebels who sip tea, kiss mum every morning, and get free government loans for studio time. Keep on rockin, and doing the comedy thing!
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:43 am
ichiro you’re a retard and an asslicker. No one’s upset about a church being vandalised, it’s just that spraypainting graffiti on one is really LAME, especially if you keep on bigging it up over 10 years later like you blew up the WTC or something.
Judging something by how many copies it sells is gay by the way. Popularity is no indicator of quality, if it was Michael Jackson must be the best “artist” ever.
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:56 am
There have been bands who have done a hell of a lot less and boasted about it WAY more, why don’t you bark up their tree?
Yeah, but if YOU could sell even 5 copies, I guess it would give you something better to do, I guess you’d be on the inside of the little club for a change.
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:58 am
And that’s all I have to say, I’ve made enough points here. If I keep it up then yeah, I might wonder if I’m some kind of asslicker.
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:02 am
What’s the best way for a church to be vandalised. I feel we need an expert opinion. Anyway’s what’s it feel like to have less hits on this website than Chris Brown? I hope you haven’t been at it long.
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:15 am
For the last time, I’m not Prozak. I understand Anus.com is doing well though and I’m sure he could sell that domain for a lot of money should he have wanted to do so.
So the reason you make music is “for the FANS”? Are you not aware that serious artists create because they actually have something to say?
Profanatica and Havohej “not great acts”? Who’s jealous now? Sure, the dumb masses laughed at Havohej, they laughed at Burzum and Darkthrone too back in the day. But Havohej’s “Dethrone the Son of God” is now regarded as a classic album (as you well know), whereas Ritual’s debut…
I’ve informed Erik of Watain that you think he’s a pussy and that his band sucks by the way, I’m sure he’ll be posting threatening messages on your myspace any day now. LOL. This is sarcasm by the way.
“Safe” black metal? Please tell me why you consider Ritual to be dangerous black metal, I’d love to know, you dastardly criminals you!
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:35 am
Robert Ritual, the guy says in the article that you were the among the first to try to clone the norwegians, not a first wave band. Learn to read?
And even you now admit that the Ritual debut was only ‘a good record at the time’? Haha, so you don’t think it’s a classic anymore?
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:44 am
Yes, I do enjoy the music of Havohej, Profanatica. Yes they were laughed at for the above reasons. The reason Ritual stopped making music, are you ready? Is because I didn’t know which direction to take with new material. I waited for inspiration to come naturally. Watain’s music is fine. Is it as dangerous as GG Allin, not quite. Is it a step in the right direction, yes. Black Metal has lost it’s way because the rebellion is gone.That’s what attracted most of us to the music correct?
Me using the moniker ‘Criminal Black Metal’ is not just self referential, but a nod to the old scene that I feel a stronger connection too than the present. Can we agree on that?
If you knew the craziness that existed at the time of Ritual’s formation it would read like something out of ‘Lords Of Chaos’. Anyone local will tell tales of machetes being pulled on band members for screwing up parts, meetings of the Black Circle at the band house in Silverlake, crimes that we were never convicted of, run ins with gang members of the area which forced the band to purchase weapons and run them off.
This isn’t bragging. This is how it was back then. If you think it’s horseshit and prefer something safe, more scene friendly you have lots of options.I could have given you a real story that would have been much more interesting but you choose to go the insult route. I have no grudge against you. You are simply doing your job which is to provoke to get a more interesting interview.
Looking back 15 years later, Ritual focuses more on the positive aspects of magick and self transformation, but the early years certainly have their charm.
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:52 am
Incorrect Kouger, when we recorded our demos and were writing out first record, none of the Norwegian bands had albums albums out.except Darkthrone’s 2nd and Mayhem ‘Deathcrush’. We were all borrowing from the same source. I remember when we first started using keyboards our only point of reference was Nocturnus and Paradise Lost ‘Gothic’ album. We didn’t have alot of money at the time, and you had to wait sometimes 6 monthes to recieve a demo. What we knew of the Norwegian bands sound was mostly described through interviews and we envisioned what that sound would be and did our version. Some feel it is a classic, some don’t, but we tried our best and are grateful to still have some who remember those early days and support the band.
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:07 am
QUOTE: ‘Incorrect Kouger, when we recorded our demos and were writing out first record, none of the Norwegian bands had albums albums out.except Darkthrone’s 2nd and Mayhem ‘Deathcrush’.’
Wrong…
Immortal had 2 albums out by 1993 (one in 92).
Burzum had 2 out by 1993 (one in 92).
Emperor had an EP and a split out by 1993.
Even latecomers like Gorgoroth and Satyricon had one out by 1994.
QUOTE: ‘What we knew of the Norwegian bands sound was mostly described through interviews and we envisioned what that sound would be and did our version.’
Why did you feel you had to make your own version of something you hadn’t even heard if, as you say, you were all borrowing from the same source? Totally illogical. Well, you admit that you were trying to copy the Norwegians without having heard them, at least that’s a reason why Ritual sounded so bad. Maybe your new stuff will be better?
And waiting 6 months for a demo? Did you live on the moon back then? Seriously, I was heavily into tape trading from late 80’s to mid 90s and I’ve never heard of anything like that! Maybe from South America…!
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:41 pm
everyone here simply argues.
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:01 pm
arrghh, the best way to vandalize a church will alway’s be with a torch! it’ll get you 20 years in a nice resort though with a live in boyfriend. no, scratch that last part.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:06 pm
This is really not productive, I was hoping this site will accomplish something, but instead it’s just trolling obscure black metal bands.
What happened to the “Promote quality, ignore the rest”? I understand the need for scorning the bad, but this is like digging up a corpse and sodomizing it:
1) It’s redundant
2) It mildly entertaining for onlookers, who quite possibly don’t care about your reasons for the act
3) It will earn you diseases that should have stayed under ground, with the corpse
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Yo dat Criminal Metal stuff is off da hook!
September 3rd, 2009 at 6:43 pm
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September 3rd, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Keep trolling the black metal underground, it makes for quality entertainment.
Hail antihumanism!
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Someone should inform that dead German dude of that wing in Ritual’s logo.
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Whatever you might think about the style and intent of the article, you gotta admit that this whole discussion was a much more interesting exhibit than any bio or normal interview would have been!
September 4th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Can’t wait for the new album when it’s out Ritual is back!!!!!
September 4th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
haha. evil pussies..
September 4th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
…I can’t believe I actually Made it to the bottom of this page. I feel that I have wasted 5 Minutes of my life reading this crap. …Speaking from the outside being a person that has not truely followed the Black Metal scene like the troopers you all claim to be, I must say that….
1) You interviewed the Ritual thing only to slam it. Why?
2) You are only giving Positive Publicity to this Band/project by talking Smack.
3) You all seem to know WAY too much about Ritual past and present. Stalkers?
4) Do you Actually pay for this domain? If so……why?
5) How old are we all now?
6) The current music coming from Ritual is Satisfactory giving the recording conditions.
7) Can you Admin, or any other $hit talker make music that compares? who knows.
8) I have spent enough time on here and I wouldn’t recommend this site to my worst enemy.
…..That’s all you get. PEACE OUT GIRL SCOUT!!!!!
September 5th, 2009 at 6:50 am
You should make fun of Ofermod next. The guy thinks his music is going to start a new religion of death, but it’s just boring crap. See:
http://www.myspace.com/ofermodrapetheworld
September 5th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
3rd Church Hit in Hate Crime – Vandalism: Swastikas and anti-religious graffiti are spray-painted on United Church of the Valley in La Crescenta.
By STEVE RYFLE, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
July 18, 1995
GLENDALE — For the third time in less than a year, a house of worship in the Glendale area has become the target of graffiti vandals scrawling anti-religious symbols and slogans, police said Monday.
Swastikas, inverted pentagrams, the symbol 666 and gang-type graffiti written in black ink were discovered at United Church of the Valley in La Crescenta last week.
A police officer who first responded to the crime originally classified it as mere vandalism, but on Monday police said they were adding it to the list of hate-motivated incidents.
“The writings are of an anti-Christian, anti-religious nature and that is a basis for classifying this as a hate crime,” said Chahe Keuroghelian, spokesman for the Glendale Police Department.
“Had this been ordinary graffiti, or had it not been on a religious center it would be classified as vandalism, but in this case it’s clear the church was the victim of a hate crime.”
Church officials could not be reached for comment Monday, but police said the graffiti, which was written on walls, desktops and bulletin boards in the church’s nursery and Sunday school room, was discovered by a staff member. It is believed to have been written sometime between July 9 and July 12.
No arrests have been made.
The case mirrors, on a smaller scale, a February incident in which vandals spray-painted large swastikas and anti-Christian icons on the 1,500-member First United Methodist Church of Glendale.
Four teen-agers were arrested in connection with that crime, and although police initially characterized the suspects as members of a Satanic cult, the hate crime charges against them were later dropped.
Last September, six large orange swastikas were painted on the exterior of Temple Sinai, Glendale’s only Jewish synagogue. No arrests have been made in connection with the crime.
Police are also classifying as a hate crime an incident on Sunday in which an Armenian resident reported that vandals scratched initials for “White Power” on her car windshield while she was shopping. The two latest incidents bring the number of hate crimes reported in Glendale this year to five, police said.
September 6th, 2009 at 1:53 am
This interview is lame!! Where is the professionalism here on the part of the interviewer? It’s not our fault that he happens to really dislike “The Summoning” By Ritual.If this guy was face to face in person with Robert Ritual he would not say such words!! Of course everything back in the day was different but there is no reason to put them down like that!! Anyways why do the best Black Metal bands have to be from Norway?Don’t get me wrong there are some that are worthy!! But there are way better bands elsewhere and their style is more unique and original!! Mediocre interview and ironically this will be forgotten!!
September 6th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
God damn, this was one of the best interviews I have ever read.
Anything that pisses off nerds and black metal gangsters is great in my books.
September 6th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Well I must say I am quite surprised. All the links do point to Ray Spinoza on this site. I’m afraid you had blown your own cover. I really don’t understand why this topic is up. The return of Ritual is not really a return. Ian made the decision to make the site and redo the songs without consulting the other members. Robert had a discussion with them and they decided that what ever would happen, they would discuss first. They were already working on projects on their own but after putting up the Ritual site, they received more hits than expected of which shown a reignition of the old and new fan base. I world have to agree with Robert that if you didn’t like them, why are you wasting your time with them unless you had a personal problem with them. I was a big fan of the three-hour metal show at Claremont College so I am very disappointed to see that interviews are being fabricated. I guess I can understand making falsehoods to cause controversary for ratings and crap but honestly you think you would have something better to do like banging chicks or something. I mean I use to love Grimiore of Exalted Deeds because it was funny but at least the interviewees knew what they were in for.
I am afraid the opinion of the creator of this article has totally lost credibility and you shouldn’t even bother keeping it up. How are you going to have people agree with you on ideologies that you give a sh*t about if you can’t even do an honest interview.
I’m afraid you are a marked man and better watch it if you pursue this course.
Just drop it and go away.
September 7th, 2009 at 12:24 am
What I feel this interviewer was trying to say was maybe Ritual was a bit conservative in musical approach. But, being in a band with 2 other members compromises must be made. Ritual was however one of the first of the second wave bands, so it was okay to do a traditional record back then. The musical approach of the new material will be as far from traditional as possible and draw from classic records such as Christian Death “Catastrophe Ballet”, Godflesh “Streetcleaner”, Beherit “Drawing Down The Moon”, and Monumentum “In Absentia Christi”.
We hope to make up for lost time with some real advances in musical approach and maybe make a record that the haters can enjoy. Rebellion in music is not only having the fuck attitude of Darkthrone but rebelling against musical rules that limit songwriting.
Remember Tiamat’s “Wildhoney”, they don’t anymore but that’s what this music needs to remain vital for future generations.
September 7th, 2009 at 2:25 am
Vengeance666 – I AM NOT Prozak, though I am an Anus.com supporter. Believe it or not there are actually other people out there who have similar ideas.
There’s nothing “fabricated” about the interview. I sent the band those exact questions and they answered them exactly as published here.
The Ritual myspace got more hits than expected due to the creator spamming the fuck out of the site with hundreds of friend requests bearing the comment “RITUAL IS BACK!”.
There’s nothing personal about this article or any other that I write. I’ve also mocked Marduk and Fenriz of Darkthrone (he threw a tantrum nearly as badly as Ritual did by the way), I’ve nothing personal against them either, I’m merely pointing out their failures.
September 7th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Hey Admin, despite the deeds of a band, I welcome you to create something better. It’s funny how those who criticize at such base are completely incapable of playing anything more than a meat flute.
September 7th, 2009 at 9:51 am
So to criticize music, you have to have the ability to play it? What’s next, “you don’t know if drugs/videogames/tv are bad until you tried them”? Seriously people, if you are a sheep at least hide it when you are using the Internet.
Loved the interview, but the responses here are more funny, and sad in a way.
Like Infester said, anything that pisses off nerds and black metal gangsters is great in my books haha.
September 7th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Hey I just luv your music man!!!!
I’ve been jumping around the house and dancing ever since I heard it. Too bad about those screams in the backgorund, I wished I could play it to the kids in kindergarten. Other than that, it was really good bunny-hopping “criminal black metal”, as you put it :)))
Really, nobody cares if you do the music you like even though it’s crap, but just don’t call it black metal. (yeah, call it criminal BM, so we know what to expect LMFAO…). I can’t even believe we’re on the same planet. I can’t even believe that anyone who has heard good, old-school BM can think this crap has any relevance. What sort of distorted musical perception do you have???
September 8th, 2009 at 2:06 am
Did you hear the new music Admin? Just curious what your thought was.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:14 am
I demand a Nekrogoblikon interview, NOW.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:11 am
I enjoy those articles because of the reason someone posted with a corpse. It just entertains onlookers.
But it is pointless in the end.
Write about something relevant. For example NS themes in black metal or something outside metal
September 10th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Admin. kinda looks here that you are jumping around profile names.
Again the credibility seems to be diminishing.
And I still believe the interview is fabricated.
September 11th, 2009 at 1:48 am
“Jumping around profile names?” you might like to think so, but I don’t need to do that.
And if you still believe the interview was fabricated, why not just ask the band themselves? Or if you have a myAIDS page, I can even forward the original interview reply I received from the Ritual page…
Why are you so obsessed with this site’s credibility anyway?
September 11th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
“Looking back 15 years later, Ritual focuses more on the positive aspects of magick and self transformation”
Trust me Robert once you have completed your self-transformation your music will surely improve. Here are some links that will hopefully be of some use to you:
http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/
http://www.geocities.com/athens/acropolis/1896/crowpage.html
http://www.sexuality.org/l/transgen/hormone.html
http://www.vch.ca/transhealth/resources/library/tcpdocs/guidelines-endocrine.pdf
Good luck and see you on the other side sister!
September 11th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
http://penetrate.blogspot.com/2009/09/truth-about-spinoza-ray-prozak.html
This article admits he trolls the underground with fake profile names.
September 11th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
The admin of this site wasn’t “tumours for tv stars” in the anus forum?
September 12th, 2009 at 4:15 am
Louis Cypher is an idiot.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Louis Cypher: how do I know you’re not SR Prozak then?
Anyway, that article suggests SR Prozak is not an actual individual but in fact several people using the same name, not one person using many names.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Spinoza Ray Prozak is a person. He lives in Houston, TX.
September 13th, 2009 at 4:44 am
Your right I am Prozak!!! Robert Ritual is actually Fenriz too. Who’s going to get it next?
September 13th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Disregard everything I’ve ever said, I suck cocks.
September 14th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Really lame Admin. You censor others when backed into a corner. You show your true colors coward!!!
September 15th, 2009 at 1:05 am
Wait, hang on… I just remembered, I suck cocks. Sorry, disregard that.
September 15th, 2009 at 1:31 am
You really think judging from the other comments at this site that I censor people?
Someone else posted as you with the not particularly hilarious “suck cocks” comment, not me. Your previous comments hadn’t bothered me personally at all (I’d barely read them, they seem incoherent).
September 15th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Haha, I just tried to do it to the Admin, and he censored it XD Some kind of double standard thing, or he’s simply putting his foot down, finally.
Sorry, Louis, I couldn’t resist insinuating that you suck cocks. Twice.
September 15th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Hey Admin, just wanted to let you know Ritual does have a sense of humour and will take the high road on the matter. I admit to finding this website amusing and well written. Someone has to call people on their bullshit and there is alot of it within the Metal Underground.
However, I do believe Ritual to be doing it for the right reasons and not to build a career off of a simple vandalism act. With the economy the way it is that would be more trouble than it’s worth. I’m interested to know who you consider great acts in today’s scene. Also, what did you think of the latest Havohej “Kembatinan Premaster”?
September 16th, 2009 at 8:53 am
“If you knew the craziness that existed at the time of Ritual’s formation it would read like something out of ‘Lords Of Chaos’. Anyone local will tell tales of machetes being pulled on band members for screwing up parts, meetings of the Black Circle at the band house in Silverlake, crimes that we were never convicted of, run ins with gang members of the area which forced the band to purchase weapons and run them off.”
Jesus fucking Christ! This shit is priceless! :D :D :D
How old is this idiot anyway? 16?
September 16th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
No problem Cargest. Gaahl called by the way. Apparently you left your skirt and bulletbelt at his house. I’m assuming your male lol!
September 17th, 2009 at 9:05 am
My male what, Louis? My male what? Or do you just suck at grammar?
YES, I SAID IT. I MOVED THE TOPIC OF ARGUMENT FROM HOMOSEXUALITY TO GRAMMAR. BY THE LAWS OF THE INTERNET, I WIN THIS DEBATE.
September 17th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
It was a gay reference! Your not the sharpest tool in the shed huh? Gaahl said you can move in since your shit’s already packed! He said you can’t play piano on his solo album since you suck on the organ. He also said your boss called and you were fired from your job at the sperm bank. You were caught drinking on the job again.
September 18th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
“We seek to transform the individual through magick into something better.
yack-yack-yack”
Hey, do you perform on private (birthday) parties??? :D
October 7th, 2009 at 5:04 am
Robert Ritual: I don’t really consider there to be any “great” acts in the scene today. Nothing matches up to the classics released from the early-mid 80’s to early 90’s, let’s be brutally honest.
Profanatica, Summoning, Graveland and Beherit still have “it”, though on a personal level I don’t enjoy the new Beherit and Graveland much.
Havohej “Kembatinan Premaster”: a good review here which I agree with: http://www.anus.com/metal/about/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=106
(yeah I know it’s from your most hated website).
But subjectively I can find it enjoyable in some ways.
November 26th, 2009 at 3:20 am
This is Ian from RITUAL! I made this band something you fuckers know about with the help of Rob and Mike. Speculation is cool with me. But you fools are uninformed. We worked very hard to push this style of music thru when nobody else knew or cared about it. Dickwads on these internets somehow find it lucrative to talk shit about real, hardcore mofos and bang their little baby drum over and over again about it. You little “Black Metal” pussies will never be arrested like Robert and I were. Interrogated. Dehumanized.
We were living this scene while most of you were having wet dreams about it. We don’t care about you or your police state.
We are black metal. We are America. We shall overcome.
November 26th, 2009 at 7:25 am
“We are black metal. We are America. We shall overcome.” < lol
I like the way you adapted an Obama speech by adding the word "metal". You sure are one "hardcore mofo"!!!
November 26th, 2009 at 7:43 am
I’m still not getting what any of this has to do with ‘antihumanism’ – I was linked this website by an acquaintance on DeviantART some months ago, and have seen mostly nothing but some American red state political raging and some really bad music.
Is the site name/theme a joke? I’m just a little confused..
January 14th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
I have some cornbread and some hosh capones
February 15th, 2010 at 9:23 am
LMAO…again-ball washing this site!! Whether you like how this site operates or not…
at least the interviews are not the typical-ass kissing-so-I-can-get-free-shit kind..
as far as Ritual….been apart of the underground and tape trading for more than 25 years..never heard of “Ritual” before I came across this site…
having said that…I have been apart of bands that released CD’s and demos that no one here probably never heard of either (Forbode, Dilator….)
and in the local areas we were “kind of” legendary for shows..
but…never heard of Ritual….so, don’t even know….
February 21st, 2010 at 2:49 pm
What a bunch of idiots. Black metal isn’t something to be pushed; that’s why they call it the underground. Or the ‘overground’ as some people refer to it now. I’ve never heard any of Ritual’s music. I don’t think that someone who truly understands and most importantly lives Black Metal would care what a bunch of worthless idiot humans like yourselves think about his music. But that’s just it; apparently, it’s nothing more than music, and the artists have no idea what Black Metal is truly about. Everyone who is or has been connected to this site in any way is a fucking idiot (excluding the bands, because I’ve read about 4 or 5 stories on here and I know of only this band, Watain, and Darkthrone being mentioned). And I’m not planning on reading more, as this is not amusing, but yes, absolutely, a completely meaningless and idiotic waste of time. If you think that Black Metal is only music, you should be able to stomach all the other music out there, as you have no idea as to why people always say that it’s above all other music, which is nothing more than that (although these people never know what they’re talking about either), and stop listening to Black Metal.
April 20th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Dude.black metal is basically the most stupid,overrated(for it’s shock value) and loser genre of music.and you,robert fucking ritual and dickhead ian.being arrested by the police,interrogated and raped in the ass by other prisoners don’t make you better musicians.the problem with you bastards is that you guys do everything apart from music..satyricon and ancient(and some of the later stuff of mayhem) focuses more on music.learn from them.and if you say that being musically approachable is commercial,then fuck you.
May 6th, 2010 at 9:20 am
its all a popularity contest, right? who won that hmm i wonder when it comes to eating stolen ketchup on the weekends and feministing.. so prozak is like that the pms+ medicaton isnt it?