Evoking a rich tapestry of ice-caked forests, peasant revolts, and silent knights, POISON RUIN stab at the pulsing heart of what it means to live under the permanent midnight of contemporary life. With Harvest, the band aligns their sonic palette to their godless, medieval-inflected aesthetic symbolism, creating a record which strikes with an assured sense of blackened harmony.<\/p>\n
\u0093I\u0092ve always found fantasy tropes to be incredibly evocative,\u0094 vocalist Mac Kennedy notes, \u0093that said, even though they are a set of symbols that seem to speak to most people of our generation, they are often either apolitical or co-opted for incredibly backwards politics.\u0094<\/p>\n
Kennedy reworks fantasy imagery as a series of totems for the downtrodden, stripping it of its escapist tendencies and retooling it as a rich metaphor for the collective struggle over our shared reality: \u0093Instead of knights in shining armor and dragons, it\u0092s a peasant revolt,\u0094 Kennedy explains, \u0093I\u0092m all for protest songs, but with this band I\u0092ve found that sometimes your message can reach a greater audience if you imbue it with a certain interactive, almost magical realist element.\u0094<\/p>\n
The title track invokes images of feudal peasants, tithes, and money-hungry lords, sounding the horn of labor with the rallying cry, \u0093Isn\u0092t this our harvest? Isn\u0092t this our feast to share?\u0094 Tales of the undead rising to take revenge upon those who have unknowingly wronged them spin out like pleasantly cathartic folktales (\u0093Resurrection II\u0094), while other tracks address the profound beauty and spirit of those making ends meet in the forsaken ends of POISON RUIN\u0092s hometown of Philadelphia (\u0093Blighted Quarter\u0094). The band stares into the abyss of modern living with a sober and empathetic outlook, portraying our cracked reality as a complex and difficult to parse miasma of competing desires.<\/p>\n
With Harvest, POISON RUIN have constructed a richly chilling fable out of modern living. Their tale is as lurid as it is seductive, as much a promising fantasy as it is a dreary portrait of reality itself. <\/p>\n
Tracks:<\/strong><\/p>\n Genres:<\/strong> Gothic Metal, Punk, Rock<\/p>\n Label:<\/strong> Relapse Records<\/p>\n Erscheinungsjahr:<\/strong> 2023<\/p>\n K\u00fcnstler:<\/strong> POISON RUIN<\/p>\n Spieldauer:<\/strong> 33:52<\/p>\n Format:<\/strong> CD<\/p>\n EAN:<\/strong> 0781676753727<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Evoking a rich tapestry of ice-caked forests, peasant revolts, and silent knights, POISON RUIN stab at the pulsing heart of what it means to live under the permanent midnight of contemporary life. With Harvest, the band aligns their sonic palette to their godless, medieval-inflected aesthetic symbolism, creating a record which strikes with an assured sense […]\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2245816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[460],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2245818","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-cd-o-q","7":"pa_band-poison-ruin","8":"pa_productgenre-gothic-metal","9":"pa_productgenre-punk","10":"pa_productgenre-rock","11":"pa_productlabel-relapse-records","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"taxable","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n\n