Ruins – Within
Six songs of dark, metallic and melodramatic crust hardcore in the second LP of this awesome German band.
Six metallic songs of dark and melodramatic crust hardcore on the second LP of this band from Bielefeld, Germany. I met these guys in 2013 when they were touring to promote their Incidents LP and I have nothing but great memories of their shows and attitude. So I’m glad they’re still around and ready to destroy our eardrums with their second full-length, which came out a few weeks ago. On Within, Ruins do a great job of adding even darker overtones to the pounding metallic assault.
Ruins do a good job of balancing heaviness and melody to give the sound a good structure and dynamics. The lyrics, screamed in a typical Tragedy-style, have the pessimistic, apocalyptic theme we should expect from this genre. I don’t know why German bands don’t tend to sing in tough German, and this record is also screamed entirely in English. There is also the necessary epic instrumental track, which prepares the listener for the six minute long closing track “The Burden”. It’s not the most groundbreaking record in the genre, but the band sounds pretty darn good live and this is an excellent LP that will fit into to your collection of Tragedy-influenced records. Dark hardcore that pulls some emotional strings, you know the drill.
