The CD pre-orders for "Ritual" are now available to purchase at the Blackhouse Webstore. All pre-orders will ship out on Sept 10th, 2014.
NOTE: This is NOT the LP fundraiser, so if you are looking for that, please go here.
4 years will do a lot to a person. Everything about someone’s life can change in
the blink of an eye, let alone in an extended amount of time that passes. When it comes to hiatus driven by way of five
people’s personal lives, that can mean school, life, death, marriage, divorce,
kids, stress, and a pretty hefty change in world perspective. This can have a serious change in approach
when it comes to a personal message.
Deep-rooted in the need to share this life, Scatterbox has returned to
the running with their most well-rounded and most in-touch release to date.
This record was the result of over a year of writing,
followed by another year and a half of recording at three different locations,
all of which were located in their hometown.
Being free of a strict budget and even stricter recording studio time
constraint is a first for the band, and it clearly shows in the output of this
record. Producer Nicholas Jarvelin,
completely dismantling his Seattle-located recording studio and bringing it to
Idaho certainly made for the band to get into their element. It served to produce something that speaks a
maturity and aggressiveness that is not found on previous records, and quite
possibly the most aggressive record they have released in their 13 year
history.
As a band ages and progresses, the message usually tapers
off, goes bland, and the music becomes even more so, and a band gets….calmer. With “Ritual”, this is definitely not the
case. Tune in and see the rare instance
on how this band became more aggressive, progressive, focused and refined…all
done with tact and in the most constructive way possible.
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