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WHITECHAPEL Presents "Hate Cult Ritual" Video By Larry Petro, News Monkey Thursday, March 13, 2025 @ 11:22 AM
WHITECHAPEL is pleased to present their latest video for "Hate Cult Ritual". The punishing track comes off the band's new full-length, Hymns In Dissonance, out now on Metal Blade Records!
Hymns in Dissonance sees the band reinventing themselves, going darker, deeper, and heavier than ever before. "We attempted to write our heaviest album to date," says guitarist Alex Wade. "We wanted to put out something that was shockingly menacing and brutal."
Longtime fans will detect hints of the past within the brutality. To wit: the riff-tastic "Hate Cult Ritual" is the only song on the album with Drop A tuning, the tuning the first three WHITECHAPEL albums used. Additionally, Hymns In Dissonance finds vocalist Phil Bozeman living through his "past times", or as he states, "the music that brought me here. Brutal, dark, aggressive, heavy music. Death metal, black metal, speed metal, etc. I truly believe that your roots call you back at some point in your life and this is that point in my life."
The band's dynamic and plainly vicious musicality serves as a soundtrack to the compelling lyrical story that Bozeman vividly imagines. "Hymns In Dissonance is a mockery of the true nature of what hymns are," Bozeman explains. "Hymns are melodious and harmonious. Dissonance is the opposite of melody and harmony. Dissonance represents evil. The tracks on the record are the hymns, which represent the seven deadly sins, beginning from track three to track ten. Tracks one and two are the introduction."
Of "Hate Cult Ritual", Bozeman notes, "The sin of wrath: this song portrays the overwhelming rage of the cult. Planting the seed of evil within the core of the earth to be birthed from soil. All the rivers and oceans are diseased which nourishes their unborn lord, roaming the earth and murdering all opposers."
Adds Wade, "I was inspired a lot by BLOODBATH when writing this one and felt like Phil nailed the vibe vocally contributing to that. There is a ferocity and evilness to this track that I think really sets it apart from the rest. No breakdowns, just pummeling riffs with evil chanting over the choruses."
Watch WHITECHAPEL's "Hate Cult Ritual" video, directed by My Good Eye Visuals, on KNAC.COM HERE.
Hymns In Dissonance features cover art by European tattoo artist Rob Borbas (Grind Design) and is available now on CD and digital formats as well as vinyl in the following color variants:
WHITECHAPEL will return to North American stages next week on a month-long headlining tour. The Hymns In Dissonance Tour will commence on March 18th in Raleigh, North Carolina and run through April 19th in Atlanta, Georgia. Support will be provided by Brand Of Sacrifice, 200 Stab Wounds, and Alluvial. Tickets are on sale now. Find VIP upgrades at tix.soundrink.com/tours/whitechapel. See confirmed dates below.
WHITECHAPEL w/ Brand Of Sacrifice, 200 Stab Wounds, Alluvial:
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