Year : 2025 (High Roller Records Edition)
Style : Heavy Metal , Hard Rock
Country : Canada
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 110 mb
Bio:
Starlight Ritual was born sometime in 2013 by guitarists J.F. Bertrand (of black metal act Forteresse) and Dan 'The Man' Toupin. It was J.F. originally who had the idea to start a doomy/psychedelic project, so they started writing some riffs together, and recruited bassist Mat Forge and drummer Lou Lecomte in the process. Dan and co. managed to write a full length album of heavy/proggy instrumental music, and a few of those tracks ended up being on our first self-titled EP. I was put in touch with J.F. sometime in early 2014, and the rest is history! Perhaps some of those old tracks will end up in a future SLR album, who knows!
Album:
Second full-length album.Canada’s hard rocking metallers STARLIGHT RITUAL have revealed a first song from their upcoming second album “Rogue Angels”, scheduled for October 31st 2025 via High Roller Records.STARLIGHT RITUAL was born in Montréal, Québec, sometime in 2013, founded by guitarists J.F. Bertrand and Dan Toupin. It was originally Bertrand’s idea to start a doom/psychedelic project, and they soon recruited bassist Mat Forge and drummer Louis Lecomte. Dan and J.F. wrote a full-length album of doomy, heavy/prog instrumental music. Some of those tracks ended up on the band’s first self-titled album in 2015 (technically a self-produced four-song EP, albeit with a running time of nearly 40 minutes). Damian Ritual joined STARLIGHT RITUAL as a singer in early 2014. Since then, the band issued another EP, called “Age Of The Universe” (2016), followed by their first official full-length album “Sealed In Starlight” on Temple Of Mystery (2021).Damian comments: “Our early work featured longer, more psychedelic tracks meant for zoning out, but I never felt that truly represented what the band could be. On the ‘Age Of The Universe’ EP, we started leaning into a more classic heavy metal sound. By the time we released ‘Sealed In Starlight’, we had really found our identity: traditional heavy metal with epic flair, channeling the likes of Manowar and Running Wild, as well as older influences like Thin Lizzy and Rainbow. We blend the styles we love and make them our own. If I had to put a label on it, I’d call it ‘Epic Hard Rocking Traditional Metal’ – if that’s even a real genre!”
Line Up:
Damian Ritual - Vocals (lead) (2014-present) - See also: Spiral Wheel
Dan Toupin - Guitars (lead) (2014-present)
J-F Bertrand - Guitars (lead) (2014-present) - See also: Mortiferous, Sacrenoir, ex-Déliquescence, ex-Teutates, ex-Winterwitch, ex-Nordmen, ex-Ur Falc'h, ex-Brume d'Automne, ex-Forteresse, ex-Blutskrieg
Forge - Bass (2014-present)
Lou Weed - Drums (2014-present)
Tracklist:
01. Lost Among the Fold
02. Rogue Angels
03. Crusaders
04. Far Beyond the Storm
05. Of Words
06. Omenkillers
07. The Law
08. On the Run
09. Exodus
10. Aftermath
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