Ritual (The Black Dahlia Murder album)

Ritual
Studio album by
the Black Dahlia Murder
ReleasedJune 17, 2011 (Europe)
June 21 (North America)
Studio
GenreMelodic death metal,[1][2][3] death metal[4]
Length45:27
LabelMetal Blade
Producer
The Black Dahlia Murder chronology
Deflorate
(2009) 		Ritual
(2011) 		Everblack
(2013)
Singles from Ritual
  1. "Moonlight Equilibrium"
    Released: April 28, 2011
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic82/100[5]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Blabbermouth.net8.5/10[6]
Revolver[2]
Rock Sound9/10[3]
Sputnikmusic[7]

Ritual is the fifth studio album by American melodic death metal band the Black Dahlia Murder. It was released on June 17 in Europe and on June 21 in North America via Metal Blade Records. It is the band's last record to feature Ryan "Bart" Williams on bass and Shannon Lucas on drums. The album sold 12,960 copies in the United States in its first week of release and debuted at No. 31 on the Billboard 200.[8] The album has sold 51,000 copies in the US as of September 2015.[9]

  1. ^ a b James Christopher Monger. "Ritual". AllMusic. Retrieved August 20, 2015. Rising above the predictable black din of contemporary death metal can be a formidable task, but Michigan-based melodic death rockers the Black Dahlia Murder manage to do just that on ... the relentless and rewarding Ritual. Employing a lethal mix of old-school American thrash, Scandinavian black metal, Carcass-era grindcore, and classic dual-lead power metal, Ritual roars in like a runaway train and leaves the listener in pieces.
  2. ^ a b Krovatin, Christopher (June 21, 2011). "Review: The Black Dahlia Murder – Ritual". Revolver. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved August 20, 2015. [The] Black Dalia Murder have returned with another over-the-top opus, Ritual, an inexhaustible bout of melodic death metal that juggles more influences than most bands can name and balances effortlessly somewhere between Pantera, Suffocation, and Darkane.
  3. ^ a b Horsley, Jonathan (June 25, 2011). "The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual". Rock Sound. Retrieved August 20, 2015. The Black Dahlia Murder are just straight-up melodic death metal (and not the total feeble s**t neither), if anything their sound is informed as much by post-Necroticism… Carcass and Swedish blackened death metal iconoclasts Dissection as it is by anything around today
  4. ^ Alisoglu, Scott. "The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  5. ^ "Ritual". Metacritic. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
  6. ^ Alisoglu, Scott. "Ritual (Metal Blade)". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved August 20, 2015.
  7. ^ "Review: The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  8. ^ The Black Dahlia Murder: 'Ritual' First-Week Sales Revealed - June 29, 2011, Blabbermouth.net
  9. ^ "Upcoming Releases". Hits Daily Double. HITS Digital Ventures. Archived from the original on September 17, 2015.