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Spread Plague Death

by THERUINDEATHMETALCULT

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YomaBarr I bought this to have something to read on a train.
Frank Román
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Frank Román Sonido ponzoñoso de riffs crujientes. DeathMetal fétido muy vieja escuela a base de medios tiempos con una locura transitoria. Discazo crudo/hediondo. Apestoso y radioactivo. Menudas intros se gastan. Bienvenidos al aroma de la peste neandertal. Estos tipos saben cómo jugar fuerte. Favorite track: Slow Degradation.
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tr_🇺🇦 Ruin is one of the most consistent heavy as your current taunt victim's mum DM out there. Crushing at all speeds. And you can tell they mean business because they are all uppercase. I always just glanced over the cover and assumed it's the 2nd part because of the person at the bottom right. Ogod. Favorite track: Quietus(Slit Throat).
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about

This is the third full length album by Death Metal Miscreants RUIN(aka The Death Metal Cult!!!!!!!) 13 songs of massive sickness and crushing heaviness.

"Since their (re)formation in 2015, the Californian death metal cult known as Ruin have doggedly produced a staggering amount of crushing and utterly depraved material. What other band requires an annual compilation just to keep their listeners up to date with everything they’ve released since their last compilation? When it comes to prolific, indiscriminate and senseless brutality across all relevant formats, few bands can match Ruin’s strength, vision or work ethic. Ruin remains obstinately dedicated to their strain of death metal ultraviolence. With their latest album, 'Spread Plague Death,' Ruin takes their barbaric approach to a new level."  -Decibel Magazine

"For those familiar with the previous recordings of the California death metal band Ruin, it will come as no surprise that their new album Spread Plague Death is ruinous — ruthlessly unapologetically ruinous, in multiple ways. It’s titanically crushing, subhuman in its savagery, grotesquely filthy in its sound, and unrelenting in its devotion to building a macabre atmosphere of mutilating depravity and horror. It also happens to be perversely contagious and neck-wrecking as well as sadistically grotesque. The band’s success in creating such tremendously obliterating destructiveness coupled with so many blood-congealing terrors, and doing so over the course of more than 44 minutes without overpowering a listener’s endurance isn’t a matter of happenstance but of calculation. It’s a testament to the band’s songcraft and an attention to detail that might not be expected, given how steadfastly brutal, morbid, and maniacal their strategies are. The arsenal of sonic weapons that Ruin bring to bear quickly become evident over the course of the album’s first trio of tracks. By running that opening gauntlet you’ll be subjected to the brutish stomp of gruesomely distorted, massively-heavy riffs and skull-popping snare work as well as queasy, quivering leads whose squealing spasms tell you immediately that madness awaits. You’ll further experience galloping rampages augmented by frenzied fretwork, cavernous growls, and ghastly screams (the latter of which usually presage seizures of racing, freaked-out mayhem across the span of the album), in addition to the drag of pestilential, doom-stricken chords. You’ll also discover that Ruin make effective use of introductory passages, which they persist in doing for each track. These intros range from creepy vocal samples to haunting symphonics, from scratchy old musical recordings to dreamlike shimmering synths and weird, warbling ambient tones — plus screams… of course screams. A demented-sounding choral chant begins the opening track, and the sounds of an old-time revival choir — which seems to be heckled by demons — brings the album to a close. These intro passages, and some outros that provide the transition into subsequent songs, are part of what keeps you locked in to what the band are doing as they move from track to track, and they add brick upon brick to the edifice of monstrosity that the band are building. But Ruin’s use of melody and rhythmic dynamism are equally important factors in achieving those effects. “Repulsive Universe Inside Nightmares” is a prime example of the songwriting dynamism. Launched by a collage of horrifying ambience and crazed voices, it explodes into maniacally hammering drums and viciously slashing and churning riffage, but also slows into a lurch, inflicting massive hammer blows and filthy gutturals, and it accelerates in spurts of ferocious mayhem and punk-like cavorting. The ghastly one-two punch of “At One With the Earth and Worms” and “Ornaments of Flesh” near the middle of the album are other good examples. The former provides another dose of cataclysmic pounding, but also hammers and gallops. It creates mangling cacophonies that sound like a junkyard car-compactor working in overdrive, but anguished tremolo’d melodies surface, along with macabre cackling and terrifying shrieks — and it concludes with eerie astral ambience and pinging piano keys that flow into “Ornaments of Flesh”, which becomes apocalyptically destructive, while retaining the unearthly atmosphere generated by the transition between the two tracks (it also becomes cruel, dismal, and despairing in its mood). The piercing guitar harmony that emerges in “Quietus (Slit Throat)” is yet another example of Ruin’s enhanced use of melody on this new album. It seems to capture a feeling of mutilation-born anguish in the midst of ugly, heaving and growling, riffage backed by a steady, head-moving back-beat. When it comes to heavy as fuck death metal, this is one of the most satisfying albums I have heard this year."  -No Clean Singing

"If you’re looking for something heavy, ear splitting, and filled with dread, then look no further. The new album Spread Plague Death by death metal band RUIN is a gnarly, vicious attack on the listener that maintains a sick sound, and sacrifices nothing, except maybe a few virgins for Satan himself. In the thirteen track album, you’ll be transported to a world that is macabre, assaulting, and filled with low growls, backed by a cacophony of violent instrumentals. Starting on an instrumental intro with a chorus of people singing some sort of hymn, “Antemortem Dread,” opens the album that has an eerie theme running throughout. Many songs start out with a voice over or some sort of creeping sound, setting the stage before the annihilation of music and vocals takes over. The outro, “Postmortem Dark,” serves as a proper instrumental bookend to the album, going out the same way the album began, before a backmasked voice leads you out, and leaves you to contemplate what just happened. If anything is clear, it is that RUIN knows how to make a great album. Each track has phenomenal drumming, ranging from blast beats and double bass drumming, to slow beats where the China cymbal is about ready to explode. The guitars and bass are heavy and sludgy, really making the listener wade through deep waters of sound, and appreciate everything that is put in it. Of course, you can’t go wrong with the song titles. Track names like “Murderous Delirium”, “Ornaments of Flesh”, and “Awaken Rotting Decay” (amongst others), are a good indicator of what you’ll be hearing. With lyrics celebrating things of nightmares, total destruction, and all around hell-raising, the expectations of the genre are inherit in each track name. RUIN’s vocals on this album are extreme, and honestly, some of the best in the genre. And that is all thanks to frontman Mihail Jason Satan. Each track he is on is nothing short of a stellar performance, and honestly, probably takes a heavy toll on his vocal chords and throat. From his deep growls, to high pitched screams, the listeners ears are not safe from his talent. Spread Plague Death is a brutalized lesson in death metal, and bands in the genre should take note. That being said, this is not an album for everyone. You need to like death metal in order to enjoy it."   -New Noise Magazine

"My journey with this band started after blind buying their “Drown In Blood” on tape in a Parisian record shop wherein it looked like the most vile article in the place, thus making me want it. A decision I do not regret. The intro to this album can certainly be described as jarring with a blend of juxtaposed chants and sampled oddness, giving an appropriate sense of incoming unpleasantries. This instinct served me correctly as a bludgeoning display of festering guitars gurgle into life atop chiming cymbal work that adds a delicacy to the Neanderthal riffs and whammy dives, fans of grotesque Death Metal the verges on Death-Doom will certainly be in for a treat. As necrotising as the instrumentals are, their full potential is truly reached when the drums drop into hammering mid-tempos with cavernous riffs drudging alongside them, tied together by the gut-mutilating vocals that drench the stomping music in a putrescent layer of filthy snarls. The smooth grooves drop into blast beats to give some immense intensity to the release while the band clearly sit best in a thumping mid-speed hook, wherein they deliver blow after blow of crushing heaviness. That said, Ruin is not a band whom concoct flaccid music. These guys have phenomenal dynamics that lull you in with atmospheric doom moments before blistering leads and pulverising drum assault take the song into overdrive before bringing back the primitive grooves. This remains unpredictable and volatile yet with a solid ability to actually string the songs and ideas together. A recurring thing is the use of samples, which with some bands can become incredibly annoying. Thankfully Ruin use them to give things a sort of pretence while not making us endure too long clips as to ruin the momentum of the songs themselves. Here we see concise segments tie triumphantly into rotten cascades of musical offal in a way that few bands have achieved to such great effect. Hammering forth with those savage drums continually remaining a violation on the cranium as bludgeoning riffs then dissect the grey matter within as the spewing lyrics mercilessly execute a sadistic final blow. This is not just brutality for the sake of brutality, this is invasive and punishing Death Metal that seeks victims rather than prisoners. For those who might be fooled into thinking this kind of rancid music becomes repetitious, Ruin drown out such incorrect thoughts in a sea of ichorous soundscapes that may use a blunt impact but do so with grace and actual atmosphere. It is easy to overcomplicate music to the point of becoming self-destructive, but Ruin know when to spice things up and when to stay on a stripped-back and simplistic path of chugging vitriol. Whatever they are doing, they do so with conviction and utterly monstrous precision without feeling polished or weak. This is total decay in sonic form. Prepare to choke upon the gore-ridden morbidity of Ruin’s latest offering upon the altar of all that is macabre. This is blundering, cacophonous and yet superbly crafted Death Metal with its own identity and inarguably punishing execution. Consistent without becoming mediocre is a hard line to walk but betwixt sluggish offal and intrusive blasting frenzy, there is more than enough diversity to keep ones attention on the mangled music for its 45 minute running time. -8.5/10"   -Nattskog's Blog

"Ruin seems to defy all limits on just how nasty death metal can be. Theoretically, there should exist an absolute opposite to the machine-automated and chrome-plated extremes of tech-death metal, but it's hard to elaborate on what this counterpoint would sound like—until, of course, you hear these Californian death metal cultists' exhilaratingly disgusting death metal oozing out of your speakers. Focused on serial killers, occult worship, and other such unpleasantries, their new album Spread Plague Death continues the band's reign of terror since reforming in 2015 after issuing a demo back in the 1990s. Here, the band dishes out guts-on-the-floor death metal with horrid streaks of doom, black metal and grind discernable among the carnage. As a whole, Spread Plague Death is remarkably nimble given its clear-cut focus and caveman-friendly approach to riffing: the stylistic mix-ups and layered samples generate an aura of obvious malevolence and hint at a killer's intellect behind the mayhem. "At One with the Earth and Worms" is, however, simply designed to dismantle brains and not so meant to cultivate thought as much as primordial loathing: sluggish riffs burrow their way through this track, joined by revolting harmonies and mocking growls. As confirmed by the video accompanying the track, it's an enticingly repulsive track—an offering to the sick that's eagerly devoured, maggots and all. "  -Invisible Oranges

They come back nastier and grimmer on the title track of their new album. It has more of a death doom cadence. I really love "Human Annihilation". It had a very tangible hate to it's sound. In the time of metal growing kinder and gentler I need it to be more hateful. These miscreants  deliver.  It is not until a few songs in that things pick up into the faster pounding most death metal is known for. They have not gotten any softer and it is still just as effective when they go from the jack hammer into a more deliberate crunch. All too often heaviness seems to sacrifice  a willingness to care about song writing yet here we are with the most dismally gurgled vocals and the songs still have me engaged. There is groove in the weighty trudge of the mammoth riff. "Catatonic Vomit" has a great fucking riff, but also explains my rule of cool riffs alone does not a good song make, as they weave it into other even heavier dynamics until it climaxes into chaos. They continue to weave the album together with samples between songs. Fans of more straight forward aggressive death metal should be appeased with songs like "At One With Earth and Worms" , though I prefer the albums creepier moments the more go for the throat moments come closer to sounding like one of the countless death metal bands who places brutality at the top of their to do list. The get back into this creepy with "Ornaments of Flesh" but the raw jagged density of guitar creates a less ambient wall of sound, coupled with the speedy churn of drums under it. Savagery begins to steam roll song writing a little though the song still has interesting twists and turns. By the time I am at "Slow Degradation" I find myself having to go back to give songs repeat listens to pay attention to what is going on as my ears are hit with the guitar fire and foremost. They do slow into a more deliberate chug before putting the foot to the gas. The moments of acceleration still works as they are given dynamic contrast so for as heavy as this album is it never feels like you are being pounded the same way twice. "Quietus" takes the more blasting approach at the onset before settling into the grimy dirge that is the focus of what we might call the verse.  The songs seldom venture over the five minute mark. This keeps the beating very contained. Just when I am ready to write the sonic sadism off as an act of barbarism they come in with a riff that is infectious and pulls me back into it. The deliberate tone to "Awaken Rotting Decay" proves a much more punishing chug than some of the faster offerings, though even in this song they pick things up , but after the more dirge like tone it is easier to digest. The dominating bass tone gives more drive to "Choking on Burning Blood"; For what they are going for the production is much better than expected as there are layers of guitar heaped into a wall, yet the needed melodies cut through. It is a more musical effort than the previous album. Some of the chaotic guitar solos ow a great deal to Slayer with all the dive bombing. The guitar on the last song is mean as fuck and is a sound they have dialed in to the max. While vocals are pretty much just a texture, you do not realize how important they are until they throw an instrumental at you. I will round this up to a 9.5, it is one of the best heavy as fuck albums I have heard at least when it comes to death metal this year."  -Abysmal Hymns

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released August 27, 2021

-Recorded at Trench Studios by John Haddad and The Church of Sacrifice by Carsten LaRoque.
-This recording took place on unknown dates in late 2020 and early 2021.
-Mixed by Carsten LaRoque at The Church of Sacrifice as well as at the Ascension Falls Blk/Str Cabin at Apache Junction/Helican Gate.
-Mastered by Dan Randall at Mammoth Sound Mastering.
-Additional assistance with soundscapes by Scott Lee Martin and Alex Allenruso.
-All material by Ruin. Copyright 2020 and 2021 Death Metal Cult.
-Cover art and inside art panels all original paintings done by Janine Wunsch @twistedmindofj9
-Ruin logo by Nev @gruesomegraphyx
-Photos by Carmen Canchola/CSGF and The Death Metal Cult.

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