Ride For Revenge ‎"The Renegade Temple" Gatefold vinyl 7"EP

The Renegade Temple starts with a minute-long intro with Harald Mentor multi-tracking a simulated orgasm. Well, they can't all be winners.
Coming off the debut LP - with the most bass-inclined black metal ever recorded - The Renegade Temple contains that aforementioned intro and two tracks in the same vein as the LP. There isn't too much here that's exceptionally dissimilar from The King of Snakes - all songs come from the same recording sessions as the LP in the summer of 2006. If there's a difference to be noted, it's the bass guitar having less of that deep, clean tone from The King of Snakes. Instead, The Renegade Temple includes substantially more distortion and warble - which provides the kind of "crunch" that would come to the forefront on 2011's Under the Eye. Harald Mentor once again plays all instruments here, as opposed to Spirit Krusher's presence on bass during The King of Snakes. While there's not much overall difference in song composition, that might explain some difference in bass tone.
"Disclose the Chapter of Alchemy" is one of the best non-album tracks from this band. A common criticism of much of Ride for Revenge's early discography is that they made the same song fifty different ways: mid-paced bass guitar, stilted drumming, and muttering vocals. There, that's a song! Well, "Disclose the Chapter of Alchemy" shows that isn't true. In its seven minutes of runtime, you have: a bass guitar that goes into overdrive in a way that almost sounds improvisational, multi-tracked open-throated vocals, a beat heavy on the kick-drum, and a strange two-minute outro where the bass pretty much disappears but for random picks and strums. It's definitely one of the band's more "ritualistic" tracks and also one of their most different - kind of showing the link between The King of Snakes and the noisier, more experimental Wisdom of the Few just a year later.

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