Metallurgical Fire
They were ahead of their time, and in many ways they still are. The influences and perspective of the band make them somewhat outcast even in the outsider realm of extreme metal. Anyone who hears the drums on Lidless Eye, however, will have trouble keeping this music at arm’s length. Anointing may be six years old, but it still sounds fresh, unique, and invigorating.
Metal Marc
I wish I'd have known about this album when it came out, but I know about it now! This is outstanding! I just bought it today and I'm already in love with this album. This album is like a journey and I'm gladly along for the ride.
Favorite track: Vision And Delirium.
Tyler Wall
The music presented here is a fresh breath of air for extreme metal, deep atmosphere and crushing production allow for the listener to embark on quite an incredible journey. With a lot of cookie cutter bands in the Genre, Lo-Ruhamah stands tall and true to it self. 9/10
Favorite track: Vision And Delirium.
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Initially based in Missouri, USA but now situated internationally, LO-RUHAMAH have been active since 2002 and debuted in 2005 with an eponymous EP, which was followed by 2007's astounding full-length, “The Glory of God”, an influential album that focused on the tensions of opposites found within the spiritual and mystical life. The album left a lasting impression by incorporating textured instrumental and delayed, reverberated approaches into its sound. The ambitious depth and complexity of LO-RUHAMAH's debut was timely in the underground, but its demanding themes and protracted length left it a polarizing album for some music critics and fans. In the 10 years of near silence since then, they have perfected a musical language that plunges into avant-garde and esoteric black metal, as well as into a frantic and gasping death metal, and this informs the band's mesmerizing new work, “Anointing”.
In this album, LO-RUHAMAH take threads from direct spiritual experiences involving the dissolution of reason and the human mind, enlightenment, desperation, self-destruction, will, visionary experiences, cosmic ruination, and the lines between humanity and divinity. These concepts are approached with often hallucinogenic imagery and language, echoing and refracting alternate states of consciousness.
Graced by Elijah Gwhedhú Tamu's amazing cover painting, depicting a stark vision of spiritual volition and frenetic movement, “Anointing” removes the arbitrary line between death metal and black metal with uncommon creativity and passion, experimenting with the juxtaposition of mind-boggling bass lines, serpentine guitar riffs, and a vocal performance that alternates between growls and schizoid howls. A dance of religious ecstasy and hellish pain.
credits
released May 19, 2017
Lo-Ruhamah:
Harry Pearson – Drums
Matthew Mustain – Guitars
J. Griffin – Bass, Vocals
Recorded in collaboration with Jonathan Scott Lucas
Mixed and mastered by Damian Herring at Subterranean Watchtower Studios
Cover art and symbol work by Elijah Gwhedhú Tamu
Graphic design by Francesco Gemelli
Photography by Julie Griffin, Michael Hylton, and Rachel Pearson
never been a big death metal fan but this is actually super accessible for the genre, has fun concepts, and personally i'm always a fan of albums with short tracklists and huge runtimes (for individual songs) Great time, good jumping on point for newbies too. alienasu
PSA: if there was an album you heard a couple years ago and thought it was ok, listen to it again and you might love it.
That's what happened to me with this album. I cannot fathom why it didn't stick with me back then. Same thing happened with Decoherence's Unitarity for that matter. Matten
Blinding, cinematic black metal with rich layers of synth make for an album sweeping in scope and punishing on impact. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 5, 2016