VOICE OF RUIN: “ACHERON”

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Sep 132019
 

 

(This is TheMadIsraeli’s review of the new album by the Swiss band Voice of Ruin, which is set for release on September 27th by Tenacity Music.)

Voice Of Ruin is a band that I get A LOT of promo and PR-related material about in my NCS inbox, and have since the band came about in 2014.  I’ve, like, SORT of listened to these guys?  But have never given them much of a chance because I’ve been confused by the references to melodic death metal, black metal, thrash metal, and metalcore, all of which have been attached to their name.

However, after receiving a promo for the band’s upcoming record Acheron, I decided why the fuck not, I’m going to sit down and really take in an album from these guys for the first time. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: VOICE OF RUIN — “SNAKES IN MY HEAD”

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Apr 052017
 

 

Voice of Ruin commune with snakes in the official video for their new song “Snakes In My Head“, and aspects of the song are indeed venomous and reptilian — but the track is also so hard-punching that it may leave the walls around you looking like Swiss cheese.

“Snakes In My Head” comes from this Swiss band’s new album Purge And Purify, which will be released by Tenacity Music on May 12. It’s the band’s third full-length, and the first since 2014’s Morning Wood, from which we also premiered a song (back when the band were jokingly referring to their music as “horny farmer metal”). Continue reading »

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: VOICE OF RUIN — “THROUGH THE EYES OF MACHETE”

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Apr 132014
 

With a new album named Morning Wood, colorful cover art depicting nymphs bestowing their pastoral charms on a massive bull, and a description of themselves as Swiss farmers who “abandoned their shovels and harvesters to take on a different type of instruments, with the goal of becoming icons of sex, alcohol and rock’n’roll”, you might conclude that Voice of Ruin don’t take themselves too seriously. And you would be right. But their “horny farmer metal” kicks bushelfuls of ass, as you’re about to find out.

Today we have the pleasure of premiering the band’s official lyric video for the new album’s third track, “Through the Eyes of Machete”. Both the song and the video are an homage to the central figure of the Machete movies of Robert Rodriguez and a celebration of, well, killing and fucking. What could be more metal?

As for the music, it’s a high-voltage, jackhammering, heavy-grooved romp, with guitars that swarm like hornets when they’re not punching holes all over the landscape, and a vocalist who sounds like a timber wolf. Apparently, they harvest hops in Switzerland with chainsaws and heavy artillery, with occasional pauses for catchy melodic drinking songs. Continue reading »