A Ritual Spirit INTERVIEW

1. Please tell us about the history of your band and its members.

Martin our bass player was in a band that I (Steve) joined he left and Oli our guitarist/singer joined not long after,I had been in another band previously with our drummer Dave , when Oli and myself left the other band we were putting together this band and Dave joined pretty quickly after that and Martin joined some years later

2. What’s the origin of the band’s name?

It came from Oli and myself throwing thousands of names back and forward,it actually started as just Ritual Spirit and I think Oli suggested the A and it just stuck 

3. Where is the band based out of and what is your music scene like there? Are

there any local bands you could recommend?

We are based in and around Edinburgh, Scotland.the scene here is flourishing at the moment, there seems to be so many amazing bands at the moment from Edinburgh and Glasgow, bands I would suggest would be Darkness Divine, Ramage Inc, Freak Show,Dog Tired and Megalomatic

4. How would you describe your style?

We are just a good heavy rock band with lashings of grunge,thrash and heavy metal in equal measures 

5. What have you released so far and what can someone expect from your

works?

We have already released a 4 track demo,an E.P and a full length debut album,to anyone listening to them for the first time,they can expect plenty guitars loud drums and raw melodic vocals 

6. Do you have any new music in the works?

We are putting the finishing touches to our new single as we speak,which we are all very excited about 

7. How about playing shows and touring, have anything planned out?

We have a couple of local shows coming up in the next couple of weeks then we play the Bloodstock festival in August, which will be the biggest gig we have played 

8. What plans do you have for the future as a band?

We are looking forward to hopefully releasing plenty more new music and playing bigger and bigger shows 

9. Where can we listen to your band and where can we buy your stuff?

You can find us on most digital stores I tunes Spotify etc, and you can buy a copy of our album from our website http://aritualspirit.net/

10. What is it you’d like a listener to remember the most when hearing your music for the first time?

I think we would all like people to hear we are not trying to be something we are not ,we play music we love from the heart, hopefully people hear that!