MY RUIN - GHOSTS AND GOOD STORIES
Tiefdruck Musik

My Ruin’s sixth album (if you discount live recordings and compilations) is a continuation of the themes that have dominated their work since day one – namely religion, misogyny, the hypocrisy of others and their fiercely defended independence within a music industry that has rarely even acknowledged them, let alone understood what they are doing.

This album is part of a continual progression, musically and otherwise, that the band have made in the last twelve years. Tairrie B Murphy’s ferocious, furious vocals that can drop to a seductively sardonic whisper at any moment and Mick Murphy’s incredible guitar work (and drum and bass work) that thunders, brutalises, entrances and trips out to perfection – these are the elements that combine in a record that is hard to categorise outside the loosest description: metal. The songs sample from assorted flavours of stoner groove, classic rock, southern rock, gothic melodrama, thrash and more to create a sound that is very much the band’s own.

This is raw and emotional stuff, proving that the band haven’t mellowed in the last decade (hardly surprising, given the various ups and downs of their lives and career over that time).

Loud, brutal, intelligent and angry – Ghosts and Good Stories is far removed from the tricked out, artificial heavy metal that is all too prevalent today, and all the better for it. Essential stuff from an essential band!

DAVID FLINT

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