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Mighty good review, this sounds really interesting, I think it's something right for me, eh?

This band is awesome, dude. It's like Dead Can Dance meets...I don't know...early Amorphis or something. It's really a great album, and a unique one, no doubt.

Check this out:

http://www.spi-ritual.com/spiritual_pulse_clip.wmv

EDIT: Amorphis really isn't a good example. Maybe a more industrialized Therion (their heavier moments).

Wow, nice clip! I didn't like the melodeathy In Flames part, but the rest is really good. Death Can Dance + early Amorphis seems a perfect descriptopn for this song, but I'm curious about the others. The first change was a bit abrupt I think, too directly synchronised with the clip as well. Thanks for the clip!

It kinds reminded me of Thy Catafalque for some reason, go here:
http://www.thycatafalque.hu/thyeng.html
Then hit audio (first little button), and then play the second song of the 2004 album: Neath Waters.

Why the hyphenated name? I don't get the pun.

Nigga, that's progressive!

oh neath waters is a great song, i love that crescendo bit with the whole "epic" feel going on.

this band is like that? if so i'll check it out tomorrow...

Hope my review wasn't misleading. I hear no Amorphis in Spi-Ritual whatsoever. There are no Norse influences. In its heavy parts it is very gothic metal like, Moonspell woudl be my closest analogy, some Paradise Lost maybe. But its folk parts are very diverse, unique and very integrally included in the album. Definitely worth a listen, although again I am not sure this is Thy Catafalqueesque either. Perhaps, that is why it is unique, since we are struggling to come up with good analogies. You will like the ethnic parts if you like some Native American music. To that effect I think I have the best Native American CD ever, called Sacred Spirits Yeha Noha. My older daughter was a very bad sleeper when she was little. I used to play that music to her while rocking her to sleep. While not sleep inducing, it is extremely soothing, nature oriented and crystalline in feel. You might like it. Nothing to do with metal of course, but knowing you I'd offer it for you to sample. You will understand then what North American native flute sounds like.

Thanks Alex, I saw the clip that Ken posted, sounded very much Dead Can Dance influenced if you'd ask me (that's a good thing). I'll check it out certainly.

No, but the clean vocal bit reminded me of it, in combination with the epic heavy stuff.

This song was pretty nice. I'll try to hear the rest of the album.

Yeah, very good album. The guitar sound is splendid and mighty.

I don't listen much to downloaded material. I just give it a once-over to decide if I should buy it or not, so my comments here aren't totally accurate, I don't think.

Tower Records/Virgin is closing here in Boston, so they're having some big deals. I picked this up there today for $8.50 and listened to it while I walked around town.

A more accurate description of this album would be Delerium meets Dead Can Dance meets KMFDM meets latter day Soilwork and In Flames, or just a more groove-based melodic death metal style. It's a very, very good CD, though. I got that part right! =)

I found this review and I would like to clarify an important thing.

For those who don't know, this band was born of an early project called BETRAY MY SECRETS, with these same artists, in the same line and more doomy, a bit less agressive than Spi-Ritual, and I must say it, probably even better (I bought the album on a metal store, encoraged to listen to it by the owner that was my friend. 10$ for one of the best albums I have )

For those of you who went to find out more about this guys, I recomend you the 1999 Betray My Secrets self-titled album.

I realy rejoiced when I found out that Betray My Secrets was brought from the ashes in the Spi-Ritual form.

Another album that has no metal, but the ethnic influences mixed with some ethereal passages is SHIVA IN EXILE from the same author ;)

http://www.spi-ritual.com/

PS- I'm not making an advirtise, I just love the sounds created by Spi-Ritual, Shiva In Exile and Darkseed ;)