At our site we’ve been enthusiastically following the progress of the Swiss band Voice of Ruin since 2014, which was when we hosted the first of two premieres we’ve done for them over that span of time — and now we’re adding a third one.

The occasion for this latest revelation of new music is the approach of the band’s fourth album, a record entitled Cold Epiphany that’s now set for release on December 1st. It follows by four years the band’s last full-length, Acheron, a record our review described as “melodic death metal’s melody mixed with thrash’s technicality and hardcore punk’s energy and punishing aggro beatdowns”.

As even that brief excerpt suggests, and as our review of Acheron explained in greater detail, the music of Voice of Ruin has always been difficult to classify, and the new album hasn’t made the task any easier. But the band’s willingness to pull from different stylistic wellsprings in different ways has also been a continuing source of their appeal.

That remains true on the new album, for reasons you can begin to appreciate through our premiere of a video for a song named “The Last Feast“. Continue reading »

Voice of Ruin commune with snakes in the official video for their new song “Snakes In My Head“, and aspects of the song are indeed venomous and reptilian — but the track is also so hard-punching that it may leave the walls around you looking like Swiss cheese.

“Snakes In My Head” comes from this Swiss band’s new album Purge And Purify, which will be released by Tenacity Music on May 12. It’s the band’s third full-length, and the first since 2014’s Morning Wood, from which we also premiered a song (back when the band were jokingly referring to their music as “horny farmer metal”). Continue reading »