Year : 2025
Style : Heavy Metal , Female vocals
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 128 mb
Bio:
Rites to Ruin are traditional heavy metal at its finest with a distinctly modern twist.Fronted by vocal powerhouse Krissie Kirby (Triaxis), Rites to Ruin are a five piece heavy metal band based in South Wales and West of England.With Matt Chambers (Triaxis, In the Absence of Light) & Lee Cartner on guitar, Paul Boschen (Burn thy Enemy) on bass and Zak Skane currently on loan on drums, Rites to Ruin offers a distinct slice of NWOBHM promising a loud sound that will have you head banging in seconds.Krissie has previously fronted British metallers Triaxis, as well as having a background in cabaret, swing, soul and pretty much any genre of music you can think of. After a 2 year hiatus between 2016 and 2018, the draw of performing proved too much!Krissie has toured much of the UK and Europe with Triaxis, supported Blaze Bayley (ex-Iron Maiden and Wolfsbane), Queensryche, GirlSchool, Tygers of Pan Tang, and Breed 77, amongst others, as well as performing multiple times at Hammerfest and Bloodstock Open Air Festival.Krissie recorded three internationally selling albums while with Triaxis, ‘Key to the Kingdom’, ‘Rage and Retribution’ and ‘Zero Hour’. Metal Hammer magazine commented that Krissie’s voice ‘has the range and melodic intelligence of Heart’s Ann Wilson, but with more than a dash of Dio’s dramatic power.’ While Sara Letourneau, Sonic Cathedral Webzine, says ‘Kirby is as charismatic as they come. She can be a somber storyteller or the witch from your worst nightmare.’ Krissie’s influences range from Freddie Mercury, to Devin Townsend, to Iron Maiden, to Dusty Springfield, to Ella Fitzgerald, to Ronnie James Dio to Celine Dion and beyond!Being an avid gamer, Krissie streams her gameplay (along with other craft based content) on her Twitch Channel. She is also a Voice Actor, having recently trained with Bristol Academy of Voice Acting, a major nerd who enjoys playing D&D and likes to spend her free time running about a scout camp being a hero (aka LRP). She is also a Wonder Woman super fan, a fitness enthusiast, dressmaker, and enjoys a stroll in her local forestry now and then.Krissie exclusively uses Shure Microphones and in-ear monitoring.
Album:
Daughter of Hatred The debut album On Release June 30th 2025.The artwork is designed and created by an incredible street and photo manipulation artist, Amir Fattahi, whose work has been exhibited world-wide under the pseudo name WormBrain.“Daughter Of Hatred” is the debut full-length album by British band RITES TO RUIN, and it is an infectious, groove laden shot of energy and exactly what heavy metal needed in 2025.Before we look ahead, let’s take a look back. RITES TO RUIN formed in South Wales in 2019 and have had a steady line-up since the beginning, fronted by the vocal powerhouse that is Krissie Kirby. After some singles and an EP, the band is unleashing the full length debut album titled ”Daughter Of Hatred”, 10 tracks which gives you plenty of time to bask in all of the glorious classic riffs, soaring vocals, amazing musicianship, fantastic songwriting and beautifully clear production. The album also really rewards you for repeat listens as you discover new surprises each time, there is definitely treasure buried in each song so grab your adventuring headphones, sit back and enjoy.Rites To Ruin demonstrate an irrefutable mastery of the noble art of penning a chorus. Some of what they’ve burned to disk here are titanic, globe-spanning anthems of magisterial bearing. Style-wise? – Rites To Ruin bring NWOBHM kicking and screaming into the modern era with a bright updated sound production, stylishly combining retro head banging vibes with progressive creative thinking across ten mighty bangers.Putting it simply, it’s an album with depth, but it’s also an album that encourages head banging.Case in point, the title track, which begins things in epic fashion. Big riffs, big hooks, a big chorus, and to cap it off, a big guitar solo gets things started in a very positive way. Rites to Ruin are here and kicking a ton of ass. Yet, it’s just the start of this ass-kicking and in rampaging style, ‘Prevail’ comes along to impress too. The guitars are awesome here, but the chorus shift and how the vocals rise up, is what stands out the most here.We love it when a metal album, one that promises to be pretty straight-forward, shows off variety early on. It’s the kind of creativity that doesn’t just keep us listening on, it makes us excited for what comes next.Which just happens to be hyperactive efforts like ‘In Memoriam’ with its riotous guitar playing and thick sounding drums. Heart-racing efforts like ‘For the Love of Gold’, and the aptly titled ‘Fire’, which comes with burning heavy metal intensity and some exciting theatrics.Each track comes with so much oomph, delivering thought-out harmonised heaviness that is significantly addictive. If, by the half point, you’re not convinced of Rites to Ruin’s quality, I would suggest you clean your ears out.You like heavy metal, right? Of course you do, and you want your heavy metal to sound suitably grand, powerful, and infectious, right? Then Rites to Ruin is the band for you and the second half of the record only enhances that statement.‘Reflections’, ‘Rise’, ‘Free’, ‘Sorrow’… tracks that come with thumping force and extravagant features (such as more melody). Again, it must be stressed that there is a ton of varied ideas here and together, the band really do show off just how creative they can be in a notoriously stiff genre.Rites To Ruin are so good at making heavy metal music, and Krissie might be one of the best vocalists in the scene right now, a front woman with more than two decades of experience, and it shows.So, how does a band this talented wrap up a banger record? By going heavier, groovier, and darker with the thrilling ‘Envy’. A massive hit to end things on and one final reminder of this band’s mighty fine ways. A fist raising, chest thumping, head banger of a debut album.It would not surprise us if ”Daughter Of Hatred” ended up on many heavy metal ‘Best Of’ lists come the end of the 2025. The band should be very proud of what they have accomplished here and we hope they get all of the success and attention that they deserve with this amazing debut album.
Line Up:
Krissie Kirby - Vocals (2019-present) - See also: ex-Triaxis
Lee Cartner - Guitars (2019-present) - See also: ex-Deja Vu
Matt Chambers - Guitars (2019-present) - See also: ex-Triaxis, ex-In the Absence of Light
Paul Boschen - Bass (2019-present) - See also: ex-Kaldera, ex-Burn Thy Enemy, ex-RPG
Tom Ross - Drums (2019-present) - See also: ex-Traitor Born, ex-Shadows of Serenity
Tracklist:
01. Daughter Of Hatred
02. Prevail
03. In Memoriam
04. For The Love Of Gold
05. Fire
06. Reflections
07. Rise
08. Free
09. Sorrow
10. Envy
Download links for all albums only on our blog here: http://goodmetalandhar.do.am/
