| Ritual Decay | |
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| Studio album by Lowheaven | |
| Released | August 29, 2025 |
| Length | 43:00 |
| Label | MNRK |
| Producer | Brett Romnes |
| Singles from Ritual Decay | |
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Ritual Decay is the debut studio album by Canadian post-metal band Lowheaven. [1] It was released on August 29, 2025, via MNRK Music Group in LP, CD and digital formats.
Ritual Decay was produced by the Movielife drummer Brett Romnes and mastered by Finnish composer Mangus Lindberg. [2] "Chemical Pattern" was released as a single on May 13, 2025. [1]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Distorted | 7/10 |
| Kerrang! | 4/5 |
| New Noise |    |
The album received a 3.5-star rating from New Noise, whose reviewer Federico Zoppetti stated, "It's quite hard to talk about a precise genre: the band roam between heavy hardcore moments and melodic yet very painfully emotional ones in a perfect and completely darkened harmony." [3]
Rating the album seven for Distorted, Gavin Brown remarked, "Mixing screamo, post-hardcore, metal and intense soundscapes in a melting pot of ideas that is in turn beautiful, cathartic and above all else; cinematic." [4] Kerrang! 's Sam Law noted it as "an album capable of pulling even the cheeriest listeners into its hypnotic tailspin – then hurling them out on a wave of catharsis, feeling all the more alive on the other side," rating it four. [5]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "In Grievance" | 4:02 |
| 2. | "Chemical Pattern" | 3:19 |
| 3. | "Cancer Sleep" | 3:06 |
| 4. | "Nothing Else Frail" | 4:17 |
| 5. | "Amherst" | 4:59 |
| 6. | "Mercy Death" | 4:10 |
| 7. | "Fucking Hell" | 3:48 |
| 8. | "Fighter Valley" | 5:24 |
| 9. | "Violence" | 5:07 |
| 10. | "Manic Grace" | 4:48 |
| Total length: | 43:00 | |