Mausoleum Gate Space, Rituals and Magick Review
Mausoleum Gate
Space, Rituals and Magick
Cruz Del Sur Music
2025
Finnish outfit Mausoleum Gate have returned from whatever cosmic temple they’ve been hiding in with their new album “Space, Rituals and Magick”. I can’t speak on their earlier catalog, this is my first real encounter with them, but after spending a lifetime neck-deep in every corner of Rock and Metal, I knew exactly what terrain these guys were treading the moment the first notes hit.
Let’s get one thing straight: if classic Proto-Doom or that mystical, rafter-rattling Hard Rock vibe isn’t your thing, you might as well turn around now. This album isn’t courting the modern crowd. But if you thrive on thick, swirling keyboards, ritualistic riffing, soaring leads, and production that feels like it was pulled straight from a forgotten vault of ’70s wizardry… welcome home. As a diehard fan of Uriah Heep’s “Demons and Wizards”, I felt that familiar warmth immediately, the keyboard work here is absolutely spellbinding.
And the vocals are drifting somewhere between early Ozzy, Manilla Road’s shadowed storytelling, Pagan Altar’s occult croon, and the haunted whispers of Hour of 13. You can throw all the comparisons in the world at it, but the road leads back to Ozzy every single time. That smooth, almost soothing delivery hits like a beacon in the dark. The minute I heard it, I knew I was in safe hands.
With just six tracks stretching out to 37 minutes, the album gives you tons of instrumental depth to chew on, and that’s exactly the way a record like this should be served. Today’s younger Metal fans might shrug at its pacing or analog soul, but anyone who worships at the altar of classic Heavy Rock will find plenty of magic woven into every riff, every swirling organ passage, every carefully carved atmosphere.
Standout Tracks – “Lucifer Shrine”, “Sacred Be They Throne” and “Witches Circle”.