Ritual 'The Ancient Tome' cover revealed

[J. Golden]

Ritual – ‘The Ancient Tome’ cover created by Yannick Bouchard (http://www.illusorydreams.com/Ritual) is finally revealed! 'The Ancient Tome' is a part of Heaven and Hell Records' 'Lost Relics' series that collects and archives some of the rarest hard rock and heavy metal from the past.

Ritual, the first band to be brought into the series, made a good name for themselves in the New York and Jersey area in the mid to late 80s. As the buzz grew word spread to the UK and as far as Japan. Then the 90s happened, making hard rock a difficult sell. Still, Ritual continued under the leadership of Billy Farley.
Years later collectors would begin to seek out early Ritual material like 'L.T.M.P.' and with that demand bootlegs would appear. Well now that material is officially being released for fans of Killer Dwarfs, Autograph, Quiet Riot, and Ratt.


A Ritual track can be heard on the FREE download sampler at www.heavenandhellrecords.com

 

[Exploding Ned]

Cool. Looks kind of like a drawing of the foyer inside Fox Theatre.

 

[J. Golden]

Might be HAHA.
Well if you like that you should see the inside picture. It was suggested to be the album cover but I step away from that idea.

 

[Angrafan]

I thought this thread was about the Swedish band Ritual

 

[J. Golden]

I thought this thread was about the Swedish band Ritual

Nope, this is an 80s US band.
There were and are many Ritual bands, there is also the NWOBHM band Widow that changed the name to Ritual.
Years after the UK band Widow, the bass player of Widow (US) would come up to me and tell me of his new band Widow that sounded like a NWOBHM band. I found it to be funny.