{"product_id":"ordeals-third-rail-prayer-lp","title":"Ordeals - Third Rail Prayer LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack \/ Death Metal possessed by evil and malicious intent. Debut full length after a run of EPs and splits. Featuring a member of Black Hurst. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased by Eternal Death\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ehttps:\/\/eternaldeath.bandcamp.com\/album\/third-rail-prayer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormed in 2011, ORDEALS are a black \/ death trio hailing from New York City. What the band lacks in prolificness, they more than ably exceed in quality of craftsmanship. To date, the band released three short-lengths - the Apotheosis EP in 2016, a split with Daethorn in 2018, and the Choose Death EP in 2019 - hinting at the mastery to come across a full-length.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt least here, ORDEALS' debut album bears the ominous title Third Rail Prayer. And such an askew title suits their sound like an iron fist lined with velvet: subterranean, disease-ridden black \/ death METAL that prominently displays a multitude of unique twists. For sure, ORDEALS are mangled and gnarly at every turn, suggesting some of the rougher and rowdier cults from the old Australian scene, and yet there's a quiet grandiosity to that sound. Emotion-rich melodies blaze with sulfurous fury, instilling visions of purple-black melodic black \/ death from ancient times. But the band's songwriting is anything but straightforward; often beginning or especially ending in angular shapes, that fury bubbles over into bent \u0026amp; broken delirium, and Third Rail Prayer thus becomes something of a fight for\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e survival. Still, there's order within ORDEALS' chaos, and the trio expertly allow a sense of dark, dread-inducing space to creep in, simmering the tension to a boil before head-caving crush comes: a spiraling descent into madness without resistance. Zealous Hellspell's full-throated roars \u0026amp; strangulations illustrate this sonic hysteria with utterly blanching effect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are at end-times, and ORDEALS yield to this inevitability; Third Rail Prayer is not so much the soundtrack to such as simply three men's smokestack souls made manifest. To coincide with this long-awaited album's arrival, ORDEALS will be playing the Covenant fest the weekend of release.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Feral Heart Productions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48348702474423,"sku":null,"price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0526\/1547\/9479\/files\/a0274154697_10.jpg?v=1777439692","url":"https:\/\/feralheartprod.com\/products\/ordeals-third-rail-prayer-lp","provider":"Feral Heart Productions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}