Artist: Age Of Ruin
Genre(s):
Metal: Thrash
Discography:
Tides of Tragedy
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Often compared to At the Gates and In Flames, Age of Ruin has often been described as a "melodious death metal striation." In other actor's line, they have embraced certain aspects of death metal -- dingy, worrying lyrics and choked, larynx-shredding, evil-sounding growls -- simply they ar far from the kind of virgin, straight-up grindcore one associates with the early recordings of Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Carcass, or Cancer. While true grindcore is amelodic and is played at an dementedly firm pacing, Age of Ruin plays at different tempos and is comparatively melodious; some of Age of Ruin's recordings have been as vocally extreme as Cannibal Corpse or Carcass, simply musically, they aren't far remote from a thrash metal band such as Megadeth, Anthrax, or Exodus. Many of Age of Ruin's guitar riffs wouldn't be out of place on one of Testament's early albums.Eld of Ruin was formed in Fairfax, VA (a Washington, D.C., suburban area) in 1998; the band's original batting order consisted of Derrick Kozerka on lead vocals, Daniel Fleming (formerly of the bands Jonas and Days Lost) on guitar, Chris Fleming on bass, and Patrick Owens on drums. After circulating a demo called The Opium Dead in 1999, Age of Ruin recorded their first official full-length record album, Black Sands of the Hourglass, in 2000 and redact it out themselves. In 2002, Age of Ruin added guitarist Brian Kerley (formerly of Carved in Stone) to the lineup and went for a five-man, two-guitar attack; that edition of Age of Ruin recorded the EP Fall Lanterns for Tribunal Records. In 2003, the Baltimore-based DFF label put prohibited an Age of Ruin EP titled The Longest Winter Woes, and it was too in 2003 that the band recorded an unlikely remaking of Bon Jovi's '80s pop-metal hit "You Give Love a Bad Name," which Tribunal added to Bootleg Sands of the Hourglass when they reissued that record album in early 2004.Along the means, Age of Ruin has had some lineup changes. After The Longest Winter Woes, drummer Owens left the circle and was replaced by Colin Kercz (once of the Maryland bands Haddonfield and Longshot). When Chris Fleming took off in 2003, he was replaced by bassist Joe Scheibel. And when vocaliser Kozerka left in January 2004, he was replaced by Ben Swan (wHO had been a fellow member of the band Samadhi). With Kozerka's leaving, Daniel Fleming was the only person left from Age of Ruin's original 1998 lineup. Early 2004 launch Age of Ruin signed to Eulogy Recordings (a little label based in Ft. Lauderdale, FL) and on the job on a uncut album coroneted The Tides of Tragedy.
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