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Monday, August 10, 2009

This Week's Featured Album: Ritual - The Hemulic Voluntary Band


If you checked out my previous feature on Kaipa, then you're already familiar with the voice of Patrik Lundstrom. However, Ritual offers a much more diverse and ambitious type of progressive rock, with plenty of 70s influences, heavier and more modern sounds, and strange lyrical themes. The band also does quite a bit of unusual instrumentation that give the band a definite folk feeling, as the album cover suggests. In short, there's really nothing quite like Ritual, and the band is worth a listen, and this fantastic album is a great place to start.

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