Perpetual Ritual

perpetual blood

2012-02-10T09:31:00.000-08:00

New release on Living Tapes. Limited edition.

2012-01-13T18:40:00.001-08:00

PERPETUAL RITUAL//NIGHT WORSHIP from Emily Denton on Vimeo.

2011-12-19T19:03:00.000-08:00

Cassettegods posted this review:

Perpetual Ritual is the moniker under which Mitchell Saulsberry, a Seattle-based musician, performs with a revolving cast of close friends and other like-minded noisemakers.This is PR's first release for Copenhagen's wondrous Skrot Up label, which has been giving us all sorts of noisy gems as of late.Perpetual Ritual lashes out with five new scorchers, all banging with 70's garage rock swagger, and soaking with grungy, blown out guitars.The first thing that came to mind, was the rattling cave-pop of Mississippi wild man, Flight.The vocals are similar, with a thick blanket of distortion and chorus effects, laid over top of Saulsberry's straight-faced, baritone howls.The drums sound huge, and bang away like hammers beating on metal trash cans, constantly crashing through the buzzing guitar attack no matter how loud they seem to get.The verses seem to kind of wander off into choruses almost by accident, steering clear of "the norm", and it makes for an interesting listen indeed.This actually sounds like something that could just easily find a suitable home on garage-worship labels like Hozac, In The Red, or Florida's Dying, and that is absolutely meant to be taken as a compliment.These five songs are catchy, dark, and anything but polished, and I'm already searching the web for more of this stuff.Highly Recommended!
Grab one here."

http://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2011/12/perpetual-ritual-perpetual-ritual-c17.html

2011-10-15T06:07:00.000-07:00

Hidden from the sun v.2 by Perpetual Ritual

prayers to invoke you

2011-10-14T06:36:00.000-07:00

Prayers to Invoke You by Perpetual Ritual

opened for ganglians and x-ray eyeballs at death by audio

2011-10-14T06:20:00.000-07:00

http://bestnewbands.com/blog-listings/item/1877-night-of-the-living-grave-babies-at-death-by-audio

2011-10-14T06:15:00.000-07:00

Playing at the Josephine this sunday 10/16/11.....

When the Mirror Opens Up

2011-08-23T18:12:00.001-07:00

Bloody Mary by Perpetual Ritual

Upcoming U.S. Shows

2011-08-22T10:35:00.000-07:00

Perpetual Ritual will be playing live while touring with Grave Babies at the following:

+ August 25th- Portland, OR- The East End

+ August 27th- San Diego, CA- Bar Pink

+ September 13th- Brooklyn, NY- Death By Audio

+ September 25th- Denver, CO- Hi Dive

And many more to be announced soon.

2011-08-16T05:40:00.000-07:00

unholy rhythms wrote my favorite review yet:

http://unholyrhythms.tumblr.com/post/8953570791/upon-your-depature-i-discovered-a-small

when you bleed

2011-08-13T05:56:00.000-07:00

miss you by Perpetual Ritual

2011-08-12T08:12:00.000-07:00

2011-08-04T03:51:00.000-07:00

Every Word We Speak In Tounges by Perpetual Ritual

it used to be

when i saw demons

i'd wake up then they were gone

now it's every waking moment

that i walk

they walk along

there in the violence

deep inside us

that will be until we're gone

now every word we speak in tongues

they've written in our blood

when i look into your eyes

i do not see your soul

i see the fear as it comes alive

and takes total control

you went walking into the sunset

but you fell into a hole

am i dreaming

do i see demons

or the angels

don't go too close

TAPES

2011-07-23T19:11:00.000-07:00

The upcoming cassette release for skrot up is now available through me. Give me a shout if you want one. I'm not hard to find.

Also, the song NIGHT WORSHIP is on a soda pop compilation thing put out by GGNZLA RECORDS.

2011-07-21T21:54:00.001-07:00

audience while we opened for x-ray eyeballs

2011-07-18T00:27:00.000-07:00

perp rit at black lodge 7-15-11

2011-07-17T23:30:00.000-07:00

2011-07-07T16:00:00.000-07:00

PERPETUAL RITUAL by Perpetual Ritual

cairo show pics

2011-07-05T23:39:00.000-07:00

what it really looked like:

what it looks like when the photo is taken by zak eurogred:

7-02-11

skrot up! release

2011-06-15T14:22:00.000-07:00

Perpetual Ritual release forthcoming on Skrot Up! very soon. keep your eyes wide.

show

2011-06-11T11:21:00.000-07:00

new song

2011-05-22T23:41:00.000-07:00

heads up

2011-04-11T20:30:00.000-07:00

PERPETUAL RITUAL opens for X-Ray Eyeballs May 12th at the Black Lodge. i'm assuming we'll be the first to play.

come.

perpetual babies

2011-04-07T00:39:00.000-07:00

so it looks like i'm gona be the bass player for the grave babies. so stoked. on may 11th we start a mini regional tour opening for X-Ray Eyeballs. then, on august 25th we begin a national tour taking us to every city in the us and canada i ever wanted to visit plus a bunch i never heard of. more on this later. meanwhile, listen to this:

certain time of night video (rough draft)

2011-03-16T19:37:00.001-07:00

live

2011-02-17T14:22:00.000-08:00

perpetual ritual & familia will be opening this show- early:

so when are you gona have a baby already?

2011-02-07T16:56:00.000-08:00

official now available

2010-12-10T14:10:00.000-08:00

the 5 song mini cd produced by danny of the world's best necrotic boy-band grave babies is now for sale at wall of sound, or thru the paypal link on the right. comes hand packaged/ hand colorized.

pick it up if you have the notion. muchos thankyous.

the only part of this that really really hurts..........

2010-11-29T01:10:00.000-08:00

..........is that there's no lesson here to be learned

ITS YOUR FAULT (official version)

written and performed by mitchell saulsberry

produced by danny babyface graves

go ahead and sleep

2010-11-22T04:11:00.000-08:00

CERTAIN TIME OF NIGHT (official version)

written and perfomed by mitchell saulsberry, produced by danny babyface graves

It's Your Fault

2010-11-10T03:15:00.000-08:00

what's wrong with you?

writtten performed and recorded by mitchell saulsberry

perpetually down and out

2010-11-09T23:28:00.000-08:00

CERTAIN TIME OF NIGHT

written, performed, and recorded by mitchell saulsberry

BABY GUNS

2010-11-09T22:49:00.000-08:00

i've been recording a demo for a young couple called BABY GUNS at their majestic bunker hidden in beacon hill. have a listen. their gona be good.

it takes a pillage

2010-11-09T22:04:00.000-08:00

alot of people would be surprised to know that one of the earliest and most loyal supporters of perpetual ritual is a classically trained black metal fanatic named ryan jobes. from the beginning he was rehearsing performances with me or dropping guitar and bass licks for tracks- showing up rain or shine, staying up all night jamming, selflessly loaning gear, etc. for no other reason than a love of sound. he's since moved to the bay but still, even in his physical absence this project couldnt be what it is without him.

this is something he's recently sent me of what he's working on down there from his end of the psych spectrum. check it out:

BENEATH THE THE WINTER MOON

you can feel it all over the place

2010-10-03T22:50:00.000-07:00

GUN IN MY FACE (official version)

written and performed by mitchell saulsberry/ recorded by danny from grave babies

pissing on parades

2010-10-03T18:34:00.000-07:00

PERPETUAL FLOOD (official version)

written and performed by mitchell saulsberry/ recorded by danny from grave babies

live tonight

2010-09-25T15:31:00.000-07:00

perpetual ritual playing live 10 minute droneout at this:

"never complain, never explain"

2010-09-05T02:38:00.000-07:00

SECRET GRAVEYARD (official version)

written and performed by mitchell saulsberry, recorded by danny/ grave babies, additional noise by ryan jobes

secret graveyard

2010-08-19T07:53:00.000-07:00

no new songs lately been getting ready for legit recording session. last night found out its not for another week. went right back to busted 4track wrote a new song in 10 minutes. these two sessions are what became of it. rough takes on the spot.

the nights up in flames,

and we are both liars.

but theres no shame,

in walking straight into the fire.

ive got keys

to a secret graveyard

where they lay down

all the dead stars

all the things you erased

thats all i see

everything you want

its all invisible to me

the outer space

that you want is inside

i can show you a way

just follow my line

i'll let you know my brain

only comes alive at night

im half dead

when im out in the light

written performed and recorded by mitchell saulsberry

i'll stop living when im dead

2010-08-06T04:29:00.000-07:00

in a few weeks perpetual ritual will begin recording a full blown ep produced by the gracious and very talented danny of GRAVE BABIES. was just at his lab and dude is a pop wizard. this is exciting.

turn everything all the way up everywhere all the time.

gun in my face

2010-08-03T04:20:00.000-07:00

i was walking all alone that night,

just me the moon and the stars in the sky.

walkin boppin with a song in my heart,

thats how the trouble always starts.

i turned the corner, with your picture in my brain,

my heart starts poundin, thinkin that i'll never see you again.

i turned the corner,

and saw a gun in my face,

they pulled the trigger,

now my blood's all over the place.

but id die without you girl, i mean it quite literally.

there's things inside of us, we never let anyone see.

when you look into my eyes, what you see, i dont know.

when i look into your eyes,

i see the whole wide world.

im getting older now, you can see it in my face.

the pain's not hiding now,

i can feel it all over the place.

well theres something wrong with me,

yeah i know.

theres a shadow chasing us and it shows.

and why its after us, is just one of those mysteries,

get a gun in your face,

it really makes you think.

written performed and recorded by mitchell saulsberry

it's not too late for you to make it to heaven, but you said you'd never leave me

2010-07-31T08:13:00.000-07:00

written, performed and recorded by mitchell saulsberry

i can't feel your face

2010-07-27T08:47:00.000-07:00

written performed and recorded by mitchell saulsberry with additional guitar by ryan jobes

nothing left for us here

2010-07-25T23:38:00.000-07:00

will miss you ryan. see you when i get there.

written, performed and recorded by mitchell saulsberry

on def ears [miss you buve]

2010-07-24T18:11:00.000-07:00

written performed and recorded by mitchell saulsberry- duet with suzie park

my last time

2010-07-24T18:01:00.000-07:00

written performed and recorded by mitchell saulsberry

milligrams and traffic jams

2010-07-24T06:22:00.000-07:00

written performed and recorded by mitchell saulsberry, with synth accompaniment by ryan jobes

The Ihop Hop

2010-07-24T06:04:00.000-07:00

written recorded and performed by mitchell saulsberry, with michael gaul on drums

THE LAW IS THE LAW

2010-07-24T04:14:00.001-07:00

2010-07-24T04:12:00.000-07:00

here comes the moon

2010-07-22T17:25:00.000-07:00

written, performed, and recorded by mitchell saulsberry

STAY TUNED

2010-07-19T22:03:00.000-07:00

in coming days, there will be lots of new tunes, brand new perpetual ritual posted here. to buy a cd for the cost of $6 email: divineintoxicant@hotmail.com

and put it in yourself.

RITUAL SPIT AT YOU

2010-07-18T23:41:00.000-07:00

written, performed and recorded by mitchell saulsberry

PERPETUAL FLOOD

2010-07-18T17:41:00.000-07:00

written, performed and recorded by mitchell saulsberry