Escape from the murky depths of 'Ritual Executions' is impossible. Coiling and twisting, the music crawls through the gloom to snare the listener into a hypnotic daze. The abyss is rife with infernal bellows; the raw setting is toxic to the soul; the rhythmic beats call for the mandatory sacrifice. 'Ritual Executions' is part Death Metal, part Doom Metal and part obscure. It is where The Dead come to life.


Ritual Executions song video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CRwfyrBfbU


Some reviews of 'Ritual Executions' -


#4 on the best albums of the year list according to staff writer of Last Rites



"It's clearly full marks from me to The Dead for their primal brand of fuzzy, sludgy, grim and hazy transcendent death metal." - Metalteam UK


"The Dead’s second full-length album, Ritual Executions, is just about the grooviest death/doom album I’ve heard in, well, ever." - Metal Psalter


""The Dead have managed to effortlessly spew out some of THE best, most original Death Metal that I've heard in quite some time on 'Ritual Executions'" - The Sleeping Shaman


"Some might say (I know I did) that Autopsy’s 1991 Mental Funeral album was the first Stoner Death Metal album. I mention this because nearly 20 years later we have another one" - Born in Blood 9/10

"If you are a fan of death/doom metal bands such as Coffins and Acid Witch, and add the fact that I have yet to encounter any Australian band that fails to entertain me, this album is certainly highly recommended." - Heavy Metal Tribune 8.5/10


"If you are into Death/Doom Metal this is a must." - Minacious Webzine


"It's not that they wanna sound sludgy, doomy, ugly - they seem to live and feel it and you can see that this is exactly the music they planned to perform. 'Death Metal Suicide’ – an awesome end for an astonishing album. Well done." - Voices from the Darkside


"Ritual Executions is Death metal enriched with groove, a slightly drugged-out atmosphere, lavish and trippy solos and a heavy load of Doom for good measure. For the fans of doomy and dirty Death metal as well as groovier, sludgier acts." - Metal Storm 8/10


"It was a death metal ceremony to my ears and mind, which combined the nauseous qualities of doom and the trance enducing fervor of stoner/sludge which had weaved ghastly components of calamitous disdain." - Infernal Dominion 9/10


"Our burgeoning battalion of today is fronted by the likes of Funebrarum, Witchrist, Teitanblood, Cemetery Urn, Excoriate (Deu), Ignivomous, and they're all collectively hurling their stony fists directly into the face of all that's spit-shined and punctiliously delivered from the more intricate end of the death metal spectrum. Which fittingly leads me into yet another addition to our Paleolithic Ranks: Australia's purveyors of putridity, The Dead." - Last Rites 8.1/10


"There’s Death and Doom, but it’s also crossed with brilliant moments of saving groove (a groovy dimension that transcends the last all instrumental long song ‘Death metal Suicide’ giving it a trance-like atmosphere). The whole thing pulsates like the soundtrack of the Apocalypse." - Doom-metal.com