WHITECHAPEL Presents “Hate Cult Ritual” Video; Hymns In Dissonance Full-Length Out Now On Metal Blade Records + Band To Kick Off North American Headlining Tour Next Week!

WHITECHAPEL is pleased to present their latest video for “Hate Cult Ritual.” The punishing  track comes off the band’s long-awaited new full-length, Hymns In Dissonance, out now on Metal Blade Records!

Hymns in Dissonance sees the band reinventing themselves, going darker, deeper, and heavier than ever before. “We attempted to write our heaviest album to date,” says guitarist Alex Wade. “We wanted to put out something that was shockingly menacing and brutal.”

Longtime fans will detect hints of the past within the brutality. To wit: the riff-tastic “Hate Cult Ritual” is the only song on the album with Drop A tuning, the tuning the first three WHITECHAPEL albums used. Additionally, Hymns In Dissonance finds vocalist Phil Bozeman living through his “past times,” or as he states, “the music that brought me here. Brutal, dark, aggressive, heavy music. Death metal, black metal, speed metal, etc. I truly believe that your roots call you back at some point in your life and this is that point in my life.”

The band’s dynamic and plainly vicious musicality serves as a soundtrack to the compelling lyrical story that Bozeman vividly imagines. “Hymns In Dissonance is a mockery of the true nature of what hymns are,” Bozeman explains. “Hymns are melodious and harmonious. Dissonance is the opposite of melody and harmony. Dissonance represents evil. The tracks on the record are the hymns, which represent the seven deadly sins, beginning from track three to track ten. Tracks one and two are the introduction.”

Of “Hate Cult Ritual,” Bozeman notes, “The sin of wrath: this song portrays the overwhelming rage of the cult. Planting the seed of evil within the core of the earth to be birthed from soil. All the rivers and oceans are diseased which nourishes their unborn lord, roaming the earth and murdering all opposers.”

Adds Wade, “I was inspired a lot by Bloodbath when writing this one and felt like Phil nailed the vibe vocally contributing to that. There is a ferocity and evilness to this track that I think really sets it apart from the rest. No breakdowns, just pummeling riffs with evil chanting over the choruses.”

Watch WHITECHAPEL’s “Hate Cult Ritual” video, directed by My Good Eye Visuals, HERE. 

Watch WHITECHAPEL’s previously released video for “Hymns In Dissonance” HERE and “A Visceral Retch” HERE.

WHITECHAPEL, who formed in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2006, has seen the core lineup — vocalist Phil Bozeman, guitarists Ben Savage, Zach Householder, and Alex Wade, and bassist Gabe Crisp — intact since 2007, with the exception of drummer Brandon Zackey, who has been playing with the band since 2022. While Hymns In Dissonance follows 2021’s Kin chronologically, the new album is actually somewhat of a sequel to This Is Exile thematically, the three-word title Hymns In Dissonance representing that correlation.

The band started composing the new album at Householder’s studio in June of 2023, following their headlining tour for The Valley. The collective stuck to a strict weekday schedule, the structure allowing for maximum creativity and minimum burnout. Householder produced Hymns In Dissonance, which allowed the musicians to seamlessly switch gears from preproduction to recording the full album without skipping a beat. The guitarist shadowed producer Mark Lewis a lot over the last five WHITECHAPEL albums and bringing that influence inside the band is a full circle moment for Householder and WHITECHAPEL.

Hymns In Dissonance features cover art by European tattoo artist Rob Borbas (Grind Design)and is available now on CD and digital formats as well as vinyl in the following color variants:

Eviscerate – Orange/Yellow Marbled (US)
Eternal Eclipse – Black + White Marbled  (US)
Mangled Innards – Red Smoke (US)
Visceral Retch – Iridescent Green (US)
Infested Soul – Neon Green Yellow Marble (US Band Exclusive)
Red w/ Black Smoke (Tour Exclusive)
180g Black (EU)
Crimson Red w/ Black Swirls (EU)
Beige Brown Marbled (EU – Ltd. 500)
Golden Dawn Marbled (EU – Ltd. 500) 
Bone White Splatter (EU – Ltd. 500)
Clear With Black, Red + Gold Splatter (EU – Ltd. 300)
Scarlet Red w/ Cloudy Black Splatter (EU – Ltd. 200)
Scarlet Red + Bone White “Melt” (UK – Ltd. 300)

For orders, visit https://lnk.to/HymnsInDissonance. Find merch bundles and band exclusive vinyl at whitechapel.merchnow.com.

WHITECHAPEL will return to North American stages next week on a month-long headlining tour. The Hymns In Dissonance Tour will commence on March 18th in Raleigh, North Carolina through April 19th in Atlanta, Georgia. Support will be provided by Brand Of Sacrifice, 200 Stab Wounds, and Alluvial. Tickets are on sale now. Find VIP upgrades at tix.soundrink.com/tours/whitechapel. See confirmed dates below.

WHITECHAPEL w/ Brand Of Sacrifice, 200 Stab Wounds, Alluvial:
3/18/2025 The Ritz – Raleigh, NC
3/19/2025 Baltimore Soundstage – Baltimore, MD
3/20/2025 Theatre Of Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA
3/21/2025 The Palladium – Worcester, MA
3/22/2025 Starland Ballroom – Sayreville, NJ
3/24/2025 L’Olympia – Montreal, QC
3/25/2025 Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, ON
3/26/2025 Saint Andrew’s Hall – Detroit, MI
3/28/2025 House Of Blues – Chicago, IL
3/29/2025 Varsity Theater – Minneapolis, MN
3/30/2025 Bourbon Theatre – Lincoln, NE
4/01/2025 Summit – Denver, CO
4/02/2025 The Grand @ The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT
4/04/2025 The Palace Theatre – Calgary, AB
4/05/2025 Union Hall – Edmonton, AB
4/07/2025 The Pearl – Vancouver, BC
4/08/2025 Roseland Theater – Portland, OR
4/09/2025 The Showbox – Seattle, WA
4/11/2025 Ace Of Spades – Sacramento, CA
4/12/2025 The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA
4/13/2025 The Rialto – Tucson, AZ
4/15/2025 The Studio @ The Factory – Dallas, TX
4/16/2025 Aztec Theatre – San Antonio, TX
4/18/2025 The Orpheum – Tampa, FL
4/19/2025 The Masquerade (Heaven) – Atlanta, GA

“…a blistering attack of ground-fissuring blasts, terror-thrashed guitar melodies and guts-hucking mosh sections.” – Revolver on Hymns In Dissonance title track

“…it’s heavy as shit, it’s unrelenting, and it will destroy you.” – Metal Injection on “A Visceral Retch”

“…one of WHITECHAPEL’s heaviest offerings since the glory days of The Somatic Defilement and This Is Exile. It captures that same raw energy and mouth-frothing rage in a way that… hasn’t been seen for quite some time, but with a new and improved modern twist borne of the nearly twenty years of experience they have accumulated since then.” – MetalSucks

“…white-knuckle, weaponized deathcore with brains, brawn, and a point to prove. Hold on to your helmets.” – Blabbermouth

“…dynamic, multi-dimensional and a much more satisfying version of any WHITECHAPEL I’ve ever known.” – Decibel Magazine

“Bozeman is simply among the best at what he does – if not the best – and you don’t even really need to be a Whitechapel fan to realize or appreciate it, though with a release this solid, it’s hard not to be. Bozeman continues to deliver a comprehensive and crushing performance atop the finest instrumental soundscape Whitechapel have offered in some time – and the result is staggering.” – New Transcendence

“…a surprising statement from a band that is constantly reinventing itself…” – Rock Hard Germany

“…a dark, not at all nice elemental force of a deathcore concept album with which the kings of WHITECHAPEL will really pump up their fans’ adrenaline production – and not just in front of their home speakers!” – Break Out Germany

“When the roller coaster of violence, horror, and captivating melodies ends… the 44-minute piece has left behind a feeling of frustration and a strange, compulsive need to let out indistinct rumbles, a couple of octaves lower than normal speech. Euphoric catharsis and addiction – the need to hear those melodies again, no matter how much you get crushed again. I guess that’s what listening to heavy music should be about. Did my album of the year come out in March?” – Imperiumi

“I don’t think anyone out there expected them to go this hard, or this heavy, ever again…it’s almost like the last decade or so didn’t happen and the band have picked up right where they left off after A New Era… and Whitechapel… only somehow even heavier than ever before.” – No Clean Singing

“Hymns In Dissonance is a ridiculously, almost obnoxiously, heavy album, and quite possibly (read: probably) the densest, darkest slab of metallic menace the group have ever recorded.” – Nine Circles

“…a jump back into pure adrenaline…Four years removed from Kin, this isn’t a ‘return to our old school ways’ type of album either, as it appears to have captured the band’s continued growth on the heavier end of the spectrum, and has taken it a few steps farther. In short, it’s pummeling but it’s never easily forgettable.” – Dead Rhetoric

“If you’re talking about ‘basic’ deathcore, this might as well be the be-all and end-all now, ‘cause no one is surpassing this. Deathcore bands aren’t just throwing out albums this good on a casual day, after all. With the grace of God or Satan themselves, most wouldn’t even have a prayer.” – The Soundboard Reviews

“This is the kind of heinous brutality that gets kids crowd killing and hardcore dancing…an easy 10/10…” – Technical Music Review

WHITECHAPEL:
Phil Bozeman – vocals
Ben Savage – lead guitar
Alex Wade – rhythm guitar
Zach Householder – guitar
Gabe Crisp – bass
Brandon Zackey – drums

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