For their 2007 debut album, Misanthropic Alchemy, Ramesses plotted their revenge. But it was with 2010’s Take the Curse that the Dorset, England–based trio got even with Electric Wizard: the band that guitarist Tim Bagshaw and drummer Mark Greening were kicked out of before forming Ramesses. From the opening onslaught of “Iron Crow” to the closing doom anthem “Khali Mist,” Take the Curse is a heavier, harder, louder, and more fully formed achievement than anything Bagshaw and Greening have previously recorded with this or any other band. Of course, singing bassist Adam Richardson is partly responsible for this too. His doubled vocals take on the dual characters of a murderer and his inner demon in the eerie “Terrasaw,” one of the most disturbingly brilliant songs here. With satanic soundbites from vintage horror movies, “Black Hash Mass” starts with the lumbering riffs of early Saint Vitus before breaking into bouts of black metal that have more in common with Darkthrone. The wicked-sounding title track intersects swampy riffs à la Witchfinder General with venomous hissing recalling Gaahl.