"IMPURITY's Classic Album Into The Ritual Chamber To Be Released For The First Time On Deluxe Vinyl and Cassette via Greyhaze Records!"

Impurity is for fanatics of the South American philosophy in the ways of the early days when the bands sounded possessed by a loyalty to making filthy extreme metal played by fanatical, zealous musicians who were virtousos in their allegiance to metal music, no matter how imperfect their human skills and recording equipment were. This album is from 1996 and it is black metal in all its personality. Of course, as the die-hard fans know, there always was a lot more to black metal than the Norwegian variety, as great as that was, and the Brazilian bands took their inspiration from Motorhead and Venom, and then from the early black metal stylings of Sepultura and Sarcófago, all of which goes right in line with early Sodom, Destruction, Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Bathory and those primal sounds. Just throw Impurity into that cauldron of bands, and you will feel at home with this album. --Metal Bulletin Zine

Impurity

Ritual Chamber

Greyhaze Records [vinyl/cassette remastered reissue]

6 November 2020

The official propaganda from Greyhaze Records: After exhaustive reviews of the release catalogues from many classic Brazilian extreme metal bands, including Sarcófago, Holocausto, Mutilator, Vulcano, and Sextrash, the Florida-based label now turns its eye into one of the most extreme, dark, and mythical bands in Brazil’s rich and diverse metal landscape.

Into the Ritual Chamber was IMPURITY's second album and was originally released in 1996 by Cogumelo Records on CD only. Despite being released only in Brazil, over the years the album found its way to all corners of the world, captivating maniacs with its doomy, Black Metal assault.

Thematically, Into the Ritual Chamber is certainly a departure from typical Black Metal. Its focus lies entirely on a Latin American mystical journey, delving deep into the entrails of the “Cerro Rico” mountain of Bolivia, where, in the Sixteenth Century, seemingly endless amounts of silver were collected, and where throes of natives perished in the attempt to collect the precious metal. Enslaved by Spanish colonizers, the mine workers would seek protection from the devil, rather than submitting to Christian conversion.

This unique saga is tempered with IMPURITY's signature maniacal Black Metal, which is felt the album over.

In celebration of the album’s magnitude and power, Greyhaze Records presents Into the Ritual Chamber in a carefully restored from original master tapes remaster, housed in a lavish package including a gatefold sleeve, double insert and poster. The album is also presented as a 7-panel J-card cassette.

Into the Ritual Chamber by Impurity

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