Rituals of Surrender CD DigiPack

Cold in Berlin’s fourth album Rituals of Surrender is proudly released by New Heavy Sounds.

Produced with gritty clarity and volume by Wayne Adams (Green Lung – Woodland Rites) Rituals of Surrender opens with the grinding, hypnotic pulse of The Power and the gothic riffage of Dark Days.

The record twists and turns as guitars crash, tempos warp and vocalist Maya stalks your thoughts with her mesmeric vocals. The rituals continue to build through Avalanche and Monsters, an edgy industrial throb and a sweeping prayer. Side A closes with Frantic a frenetic shard of fractured shellac.

When the cut-and-thrust dies down, the album reveals the band at their most fragile. The haunting schadenfreude of Your Body//My Church is a beautiful, desperate love song nestled between the epic Temples and the stoner trip of Shadowman.

The closing piece is Sacred Ground. A slice of Lovecraftian doom-gaze, touched by haunting violin builds to their grandest and most poignant piece to date.