Executioner (album)
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| name = Executioner
| type = studio
| artist = Mantic Ritual
| cover =Executioner (album).jpg
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| released = March 10, 2009
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| genre = Thrash metal, heavy metal
| length = 53:13
| label = Nuclear Blast Records
| producer = Andy Classen
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Executioner is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Mantic Ritual, released in 2009 on Nuclear Blast Records. This is their only release with drummer Adam Haritan, and would be the only studio album from the band until the 2022 release of their upcoming second album.
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-executioner-mw0000811085 |title=Mantic Ritual – The Executioner
|last=Henderson |first=Alex |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=March 27, 2010}}
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Exclaim! gave a strongly positive review of the album, describing it as "upbeat blast of cutting aggression, riding the fine line between onslaught and overbearing".{{Cite web|url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/mantic_ritual-executioner|title=Mantic Ritual – Executioner|author=Keith Carman|publisher=Exclaim!|date=March 10, 2009|accessdate=April 15, 2019}} AllMusic noted the lack of originality in the band's songs. However, the performance quality and energy were both complimented as exemplars of thrash metal.
Track listing
All songs written by Mantic Ritual.
{{tracklist
| total_length = 53:13
| title1 = One by One
| length1 = 3:37
| title2 = Executioner
| length2 = 4:34
| title3 = Black Tar Sin
| length3 = 7:00
| title4 = Death and Destruction
| length4 = 4:10
| title5 = Murdered to Death
| length5 = 5:40
| title6 = Souls
| length6 = 7:13
| title7 = Panic
| length7 = 4:28
| title8 = Double the Blood
| length8 = 5:48
| title9 = Thrashatonement
| length9 = 2:49
| title10 = By the Cemetery
| length10= 3:11
| title11 = Next Attack
| length11= 4:43
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Personnel
- Dan Wetmore – vocals, guitar
- Jeff Potts – guitar
- Ben Mottsman – bass
- Adam Haritan – drums
References
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External links
- [https://archive.today/20130211123124/http://www.nuclearblast.de/artist/757 Nuclear Blast artist page]
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