So opening up the album we have “The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive. Part 1”, and this comes in at the twenty one minute mark. The track opens with field recordings of liquid been poured over & over- slowly around this are added layers of  sustained chanting, ambient sweeps, and  subtle  ritual metallic tinkling. Pretty soon the pouring elements have departed, and more sides of ominous ritual detail, ambience, and weird throat like singing are added into the mixe.  By around the 6th minute subtle cymbal  & ritual percussive sways  are sweeping across the track, then at the 8th minute a mix of electro created drum patterns & percussive detail are added, and it just slowly builds & builds it’s layers of sound & atmosphere.

Track two comes in the form of “The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive. Part 2”, and this is longest track here at just shy of the twenty six minute mark. This track alternates between urgent ritual chiming harmonic patterns, brooding ritual drum deep-ness- which is both electronic & organic, and a mix of both. Running though this you get sways of ambience, subtle buzzing/ brooding ethnic instrumental detail, and snippets wavering/ haunted female whispers & chants.

Track three comes in the form of “The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive. Part 3”, and this comes in at the twelve minute mark. This track is more focused on  more dense layers of electro & organic percussion, with the chiming bell element running through it.  This track does work well as a follow-on from part 2, but for me it rather lacked the more ominous details, and at times does sound like ritual electro ambient by numbers- this is my least favourite moment here.

Lastly we the just under eleven minutes of “Wailing For The Fallen Angles”, and this starts off  brooding sways of drone matter & ritual horn call.  Around the three minute an electronic heart rhythm is added to the mix- and as the track processes we get added in samples of foreign tongue spoken ritual words, and other moody detail.

As expanded releases go this isn’t bad, and it all flows well together- sure I’m not so taken by the more pronounced 90’s drum machine elements- but thankfully most of the time these are not too overbearing, and they can be excused when the other elements are mixed in with them. All in all if you enjoy ritual ambience with a more electro leanings this is worth a look.