I
really don’t know what to think about this album… not even after
15-16 spins in my CD-player. This isn’t a great album… but it
isn’t a crap album either. What we have here is 8 tracks of very …
and I mean VERY dark Black/Death Metal. Ruins
(from Tasmania, Australia) has succeeded to create a VERY dark and cold atmosphere on “Spun
Forth as Dark Nets” that will send chills down your spine and you will
feel like you are not ever going to see the sun again. Ruins
offer some good ideas on this release but it can’t convince me in its
whole playing time. The darker elements are great, moody, cold and
depressive, but they bore me with the time. To me it sounds like they
are playing the same track over and over again, so this album doesn’t
ignite… at least not to me! Don’t
get me wrong… I think that RUINS will do great out there but somehow
this album doesn’t do much for me. “Spun
Forth as Dark Nets” is recorded and mixed by Joe Haley from Psycroptic.
Mastered by Tue Madsen (Mnemic, Aborted, The Haunted). Front cover
painting by Lorenzo Mariani (Darkthrone). Ruins
line up: Multi-instrumentalist Alex Pope (Vocals, guitars and bass) and
drummer David Haley (Who also plays in Death Metal act Psycroptic, and
under the pseudonym of Diazanon in extreme metal act The Amenta). So,
if you are into DARK, Black Metal check this band out. Maybe you’re in
for a surprise! Recommended track: “Spun Forth as Dark Nets”. |
