Ritual Howls Share ALONE TOGETHER Video With CLVT Nation

Detroit-based band Ritual Howls will release their new album Rendered Armor on March 22 via Felte (pre-order). This week CLVT Nation premiered the official video for "Alone Together." The video, which created by Kirill Slavin, features footage taken from the short film "Witch Zombies & The Lightbox Rave" and can also be shared at YouTube. "Alone Together" can be shared at Bandcamp, Soundcloud or Spotify. Ritual Howls have also announced summer tours with The Faint & Closeness and a Los Angeles record release show taking place on April 13 at The Echoplex (tickets). All upcoming shows are listed below.

Ritual Howls create a cinematic blend of twangy industrial-rock that could fuel a post-apocalyptic dancefloor. A collaboration between Paul Bancell (vocals, guitar), Chris Samuels (synth, samples, drum machine), and Ben Saginaw (bass), the Detroit trio's fourth full-length Rendered Armor followsthe Their Body EP of 2018 with expansive arrangements sculpted with masterful production.

Throughout Rendered Armor familiar influences reveal themselves, but the band doesn't rely on derivative imitation. Instead, Ritual Howls forge haunting atmospheres that are all their own, reaching into unexpected sonic domain. Each track unfolds with unnerving anticipation, as if sound tracking a chase scene in a surrealist western film. Bancell delivers his baritone above a jangling guitar like an incantation, evoking macabre, religious imagery laden with futuristic undertones. Propelled by Saginaw's often fuzzed-out bass and Samuels' dance club-friendly rhythms, it's no surprise that the band hails from the techno capital of the US.

Opening the album with a gloomy country-tinged guitar hook, "Alone Together" sets an ominous tone as Bancell narrates a love story in a doomed world, colored by a glassy synth that sounds as if it were summoned from a horror movie. A sense of longing pervades "Thought Talk" with its subdued, hi-hat accented tempo, spacious bass line and reverb-soaked guitars that ring out with melancholy. Ritual Howls' most mature offering to date, Rendered Armor finds the band further carving out their own eclectic mix of organic instrumentation and pulsing electronics, distinguishing them as a unique force in the current landscape of underground music.

Ritual Howls Tour Dates

04.13 Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex (Record Release)

07.27 Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall *

07.29 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom *

07.30 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom *

08.02 Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts *

08.03 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club *

08.04 Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall *

08.05 Pittsburgh, PA @ Get Hip Records

08.06 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop *

08.07 Detroit, MI @ El Club *

08.09 Chicago, IL @ House of Blues *

08.10 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave II (Downstairs) *

08.12 Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Cafe *

08.13 Kansas City, KS @ Madrid Theatre *

08.15 Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Live *

08.16 Austin, TX @ Scoot Inn *

10.04 Tampa Bay, FL @ Absolution Festival

* w/ The Faint, Closeness

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