Voice of Ruin are a five-piece metal band from Nyon, Switzerland with a keen sense of humour and a strange obsession with all things erotic. Their self-titled record was released way back in March 2011 via Swiss label Heimathome Records.
Tracklist:-
1. Dependances
2. Show Your Respect
3. BDSM
4. Win or Die
5. Give The Reason
6. Free Hate
7. My Obsession
8. Beautiful Fight
9. Blowjob For A Call Girl
Voice of Ruin open with Dependances, which is full of death
metal vocals and industrial inspired riffs. The riffs are frenetic as are the
drums and there are some awesome thrash metal elements buried in the music.
These guys have played with some pretty awesome bands in
their time, including Entombed, Caliban and Sybreed. One cool thing about them
is that they don't sound too Americanised. Vocalist Randy Schaller keeps his
accent, which makes his deathly growls sound more original.
Show Your Respect features some more melodic death riffs,
but still sounds utterly ferocious. Voice of Ruin use different elements in
their death metal, including some modern breakdowns and gang vocals, to add
colour to what is a pretty brutal record.
The production on the record allows their music to sound as
though it's being played live, which adds to the warmth of their sound. The
instrumentation does sound pretty downtuned and at times the guitars sound
syncopated. Olivier Sutter is a pretty incredible drummer too, being able to
stick to those tempos and rhythms throughout the record. It underlines the
skilled musicianship on show here, especially during third track BDSM.
At the start of Win or Die, Voice of Ruin use some
electronic effects which further shows their lineage to a more European sound. If
you like bands like Fear Factory, or the heavier parts of Soilwork's sound,
you'll lap this up.
Give The Reason is one of the standout tracks on the record
in my opinion. It just sounds as if Voice of Ruin are really hitting their
stride and while it's got a tough to pin down the rhythm; it's all action! The
music gets gnarlier as the album progresses, with more semi-melodic riffs being
cranked out alongside the intense death battery, like in Free Hate.
My Obsession has a more metalcore inspired element to it,
with semi-clean spoken vocals being used at certain points. There's also more
hardcore influences slung into the music. It's just one big raging headbang!
Beautiful Fight is off-kilter heaven. Much like the rest of
the album, Voice of Ruin focus on downtuned, off-kilter riffage and insane blasting
drums to underpin those crazed vocals, making them sound heavy as hell, without
being unlistenable. The song seems to be split into two parts too, as after two
minutes they switch a gear and settle into a bit of a groove, with some more
traditional song structures creeping through.
Voice if Ruin are streaming the entire record via their Bandcamp page below:-
Voice of Ruin are offering as a free download via their Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/voiceofruin, however if you want to help the band or want to pick up a physical copy, you can purchase it digitally from the Bandcamp page above or you can pick a CD copy up from their BigCartel page at http://voiceofruin.bigcartel.com/.
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