Philadelphia Punks POISON RUIN make their Relapse Records debut with their new album, Harvest! 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. “I’ve always found fantasy tropes to be incredibly evocative,” vocalist Mac Kennedy notes, “that 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.” 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: “Instead of knights in shining armor and dragons, it’s a peasant revolt,” Kennedy explains, “I’m all for protest songs, but with this band I’ve found that sometimes your message can reach a greater audience if you imbue it with a certain interactive, almost magical realist element.” The title track invokes images of feudal peasants, tithes, and money-hungry lords, sounding the horn of labor with the rallying cry, “Isn’t this our harvest? Isn’t this our feast to share?” Tales of the undead rising to take revenge upon those who have unknowingly wronged them spin out like pleasantly cathartic folktales (“Resurrection II”), while other tracks address the profound beauty and spirit of those making ends meet in the forsaken ends of POISON RUIN’s hometown of Philadelphia (“Blighted Quarter”). 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. 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.
I really like Wipers a lot, but the vocals here are so much better. Despite being completely sold on the instrumentals, Wipers vocals always felt like a cartoon.
Got ticket for a show in April, can't wait to hear and see these guys playing. This music sounds so archaic and fresh, unique sounding and familiar at the same time, really a mix of awesomness...haha, happy to found this band.
With the medieval references brought to mind, this came to mind: "I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week..." --Revolting Peasant Dennis in Monty Python The Holy Grail With that put to song in the sense of it, love it!
As if I could get even more hyped by this record. Well I do now, pre-ordered, and happy to see these guys are about to achieve a certain unanimity for pretty much all the metal/rock scenes' listeners with this upcoming album. Their music truly deserve it. But you all already know that now, and that's the cool point. 👌👌
I'm suing you for false advertising lol. I was waiting for the blood blast beats and gnarly screeches 😂 reminds me more of the old style Doom bands like Solstice - New Dark age, Trouble -psalms 69, idk something like that.
No shot this band is signed with Relapse. Congrats I guess. Big label for this stellar of a sound….. hope they keep doing this sound signed to such a big company.
I saw this bands artwork at a gig and I just knew this was the shit I'd been missing. "That looks like something from the '80's" . Now I was expecting something closer to death metal, but this is a rather pleasant surprise. Very English style sort of old skool doom, love it. Can't wait to see you live
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Philadelphia Punks POISON RUIN make their Relapse Records debut with their new album, Harvest!
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.
“I’ve always found fantasy tropes to be incredibly evocative,” vocalist Mac Kennedy notes, “that 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.”
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: “Instead of knights in shining armor and dragons, it’s a peasant revolt,” Kennedy explains, “I’m all for protest songs, but with this band I’ve found that sometimes your message can reach a greater audience if you imbue it with a certain interactive, almost magical realist element.”
The title track invokes images of feudal peasants, tithes, and money-hungry lords, sounding the horn of labor with the rallying cry, “Isn’t this our harvest? Isn’t this our feast to share?” Tales of the undead rising to take revenge upon those who have unknowingly wronged them spin out like pleasantly cathartic folktales (“Resurrection II”), while other tracks address the profound beauty and spirit of those making ends meet in the forsaken ends of POISON RUIN’s hometown of Philadelphia (“Blighted Quarter”). 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.
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.
Yeah, but what does it sound like? 😉
I'm calling it now. Favorite album of 2023.
DEFINITELY my favorite of 2023 to date and cannot imagine anything surpassing it in the next 3 months!
The single kicks ass; the rest of the disc is alright.
Finally someone running with Wipers' baton that gets the message. Poison Ruin are the real deal.
Bingo. This has Greg Sage all over it.
@@begrackled totally. Big respect to a true punk fan.
I really like Wipers a lot, but the vocals here are so much better. Despite being completely sold on the instrumentals, Wipers vocals always felt like a cartoon.
hearing someone talk about wipers in 2023 makes me happy as fuc
I though it was going to be black metal or folk metal and it turned out to be some good old fashioned punk... AWESOME!!!
they might be influenced by black metal in a way. the dungeon synth part indicates it
Fantastic song ✨
Worker's anthem!
Got ticket for a show in April, can't wait to hear and see these guys playing.
This music sounds so archaic and fresh, unique sounding and familiar at the same time, really a mix of awesomness...haha, happy to found this band.
With the medieval references brought to mind, this came to mind:
"I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week..."
--Revolting Peasant Dennis in Monty Python The Holy Grail
With that put to song in the sense of it, love it!
Greatest lyrics
Rural Oï
Just saw them in boise west coast 2024 ! Awesome set!
As if I could get even more hyped by this record. Well I do now, pre-ordered, and happy to see these guys are about to achieve a certain unanimity for pretty much all the metal/rock scenes' listeners with this upcoming album. Their music truly deserve it. But you all already know that now, and that's the cool point. 👌👌
came over here from THE Last podcast on the left bois
Same here. Thank you Mr. Parks for bringing them up.
Hail Satan and Hail
Poison Ruin.
Shall we fight and bleed with this in the background, My favorite band is finally back
Thanks for coming to Boise! Wad worth the drive.
Love this beat... I get serious Gun Club vibes with this and that is my jam. This is going on my playlist, heavy rotation....
This reminds me of early New Model Army, if you were listening to it on a 17th generation casette copy on your Walkman in the mid-80s.
Just saw them. In boise! Thanks for coming to idaho. Poison Ruin is the best thing I've heard in years.
So, is that Serf Punk?
This is perfect
So STOKED to see them at Over The Edge Fest in Dresden!!! 🔥
Hell yeah!!!! Glad to see you guys on Relapse. Congrats!!
This song is the best thing I've heard in years!!!!!
This is the best song of at least the past decade
party like it's 1349 ☢
Your comment is amazing!
Hahaha
or 1381 (but unfortunately the Peasants lost): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt
I'm suing you for false advertising lol. I was waiting for the blood blast beats and gnarly screeches 😂 reminds me more of the old style Doom bands like Solstice - New Dark age, Trouble -psalms 69, idk something like that.
Nice
Oldschool forever! ⚔
I don't know how they managed to achieve such a cool work and convey the atmosphere with such a disgusting sound.
3:25 fucking glorious
I took a shit there in the grass 😜
that 80s rock n roll
Made me tear up tbh.
Great song and I love the way they did this video
No shot this band is signed with Relapse. Congrats I guess. Big label for this stellar of a sound….. hope they keep doing this sound signed to such a big company.
Fantastic music
I saw this bands artwork at a gig and I just knew this was the shit I'd been missing. "That looks like something from the '80's" . Now I was expecting something closer to death metal, but this is a rather pleasant surprise. Very English style sort of old skool doom, love it. Can't wait to see you live
Thanks for the recommendation Marcus
THERE'S BONES IN TH E CHOCOLATE!!!
Another banger!
Here because of Last Podcast on the Left recommendation
Same.
Me too!
Some of the best punk in a hot minute, love it
straight outta the dungeon with this one
Finally some real "serf"rock lol
New Model Army would be very proud of this!
Reminds me of The Spits. I'm down!
this Rocks! 👍
Can’t wait to dress in chainmail and go down to my local tavern to see them play
The troubadours these days are getting awfully political....
Perfect
Best post punk song I've heard in years!
These guys are gonna start a peasant uprising
soo good
im speechless
Here by recommendation of LPOTL
The Last Podcast On The Left brought me here 😂
I dig that bass tone
Best new stuff "punk" in years.
This is f******awesome
I fucking love this band!!!!!
Soooo good
New album 😮
Опять мы почему-то оказались в начале 80-х
Минусы?)
Ретро саунд-формат!
i hear some punk sounds like ramones sounds great too
good stuff
I love it
Dope, reminds me of Mission of Burma
Kick Ass!🤘
This is music that the anarcho-syndicalists from Monty python and the holy grail would listen to. I love it❤
awsome punk rock
thanks
480p ftw!
Real RADIO BIRDMAN vibes here!
Hints of Mission of Burma mixed with The Seventh Seal
So fucking awesome
Это мы берем
☦️
A call-to-arms song if the electric guitar was invented in 1632 instead of 1932>
Gotdamn! A great song finally emerges...
This track definitely isn't maidenless
It's definitely alluring for an "iron maiden" (pun intended) ;)
Fk this hits right rn
Total Fucking SerfCore!!
Sup, Baby Monsters
2023
Fits perfectly as THE theme song for the farmers protests in Germany right now, at least for those who do not side with the right wing populists
true socialist shit, love it
The Ramones were just revived. 🍺
Another song paying tribute to the planet Saturn (Satan👹Santa 🎅)
Love it. I’ll crank it while I bring out my dead and fight the French, again.
Man i'm the French and i listen to it too
@@cumulonimbus2533 you like ADX?
@@dasmitch161 Yeah bro legendary band
@@cumulonimbus2533 Absolutely! I’m a New Zealander and I make everyone listen to them
Ramones 2023 ✓ but who gives A f#k. Feast to share
Йщф
What in God's name is going on in this video???
We love Islam!
This band just straight up said: what if rip off Joy Division
*doesn't know that post punk is a genre*
Yer a clown
horrible take
You are fucking nuts!!!
This banana head just said: Hey! I know nothing about music.
AMAZING
This is Medieval Socialism 🚩🏴 the lyrics are the real deal here