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SUMMARY:Poison Ruin (USA) + Louse & Wasted Harvest
LOCATION:The Lubber Fiend
DESCRIPTION:Building off the strengths of their critically acclaimed works
 \, POISON RUIN return with their new album\, Hymns From the Hills . The Ph
 iladelphia Punk band have developed their signature approach to grim mythm
 aking and scythe-swinging aggression in bold new directions\, offering up 
 a new body of songs that strike one as equal parts natural\, undeniably of
  this world\, and phantasmal. The band's vision has grown substantially\, 
 pushing well past the tales of peasants and serfs that stood as allegories
  for contemporary alienation in their previous work. On this newest offeri
 ng\, their previous stories of toil and dispossession are revealed to be b
 ut one chapter etched upon a bleaker tapestry- One populated by spirits tr
 aversing sunless deserts and wilted hillsides\, demonic torture objects li
 mning the edges of the psyche\, bodies transfigured into Luciferian snakes
 \, Sadean prisoners bound to the screaming silence of abandoned castle tow
 ers. The record is at once a forceful restatement of POISON RUIN's tradema
 rk sound and a departure from it- The crackling\, cassette-dubbed darkness
  and crushing rhythms listeners have become accustomed to are buttressed b
 y a carefully sculpted mosaic of new textures\, from flourishes of Killing
  Joke hacksaw primitivism and blast-beats worthy of the Relapse catalogue 
 number to crisp analog synth lines and ambient serenades reminiscent of Sc
 ott Walker and The Durutti Column. Like a serpent moving ever outward with
  spiraling circularity\, Hymns From the Hills expands POISON RUIN's sonic 
 landscape in imaginative new directions while maintaining its center of gr
 avity firmly in the band’s already established mythos. Hymns From the Hi
 lls is meticulously composed. Much like the rest of POISON RUIN's body of 
 work\, this LP was self-recorded without the use of professional studio eq
 uipment. To meet the greater sonic demands of Hymns From the Hills\, howev
 er\, mastermind Mac Kennedy relocated to a private practice space\, retiri
 ng from his previous routine of squeezing in tracking sessions around the 
 rare moments that the band’s shared practice space happened to be vacant
 . “Having added time to breathe and really get things right felt crucial
  this time\,” he remarks. “The stress of having to work quickly and at
  chaotic intervals used to feel productive\, in that it instilled a sort o
 f rough\, energetic ethos into the recordings\, but I began to feel that t
 hose working habits were blocking me from pursuing certain ideas that requ
 ired a more measured\, methodical approach.” To best serve the record’
 s grander ambitions\, the band enlisted the mixing prowess of Jonah Falco 
 (Fucked Up\, Career Suicide) and the mastering of Arthur Rizk (Power Trip
 \, Trapped Under Ice\, Cavalera\, Integrity)\, who helped to elevate the r
 ecord’s teeming variety of sounds to new heights of self-assured fidelit
 y. Kennedy lent a second hand to the mixing process\, splicing in grittier
  tape recorded segments in order to maintain a certain tonal continuity wi
 th the band’s previous work\, creating a rich structure of unconventiona
 l frictions\, crystalline flashes of polish ripping through abysses of his
 sing low end only to shatter against the whipping sting of rusted chains m
 oments later. Lyrically\, Hymns From The Hills extends both the cynicism a
 nd the defiant bravado of POISON RUIN's established fantasy aesthetics. Wh
 ile the record continues POISON RUIN'S tradition of employing medieval-inf
 lected fantasy imagery\, Kennedy does not intend for these figures to be r
 ead as historically accurate. “I’m not very interested in conveying th
 e historical facts of medieval culture. If we are to make sense of the pre
 sent\, we need to employ a more mythic mode of language and symbol to reac
 h beyond the spiritual malaise that envelopes us. A mythic truth resonates
  within any time\, but it’s echos call from outside of time. Medieval an
 d fantasy imagery are simply effective personal starting points for tappin
 g into that mode of communication.” With Hymns From The Hills\, POISON R
 UIN have accomplished a feat of creative labor which few have the courage 
 to entertain\, much less the capacity to execute so effectively. Hymns Fro
 m The Hills ambitiously rewrites the very rules of what punk is capable of
  achieving\, pushing POISON RUIN's sound into expansive new terrains witho
 ut sacrificing an ounce of the bleak symbolism and uncompromising aggressi
 on that first established them as an urgent new voice in the world of extr
 eme music.\n\nBoletos: https://www.fatsoma.com/e/e6dnf5oo/poison-ruin-usa-
 louse-wasted-harvest
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