POISON RUIN Announce North American Headlining Tour- New Album 'Hymns from the Hills' on Relapse out April 3!
- Jason Hesley
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Following the news of their forthcoming album Hymns from the Hills, Poison Ruin announce their headlining North American Spring tour which kicks off April 11 in NYC at Bowery Ballroom. The run covers the East Coast, Midwest and more with support from The Serfs, Prision Postumo, Cruelster, Dollhouse, Savage Pleasure, Peace Talks, Zorn and Marked Men on select dates. Tickets are on sale to the public Wednesday, February 11 at 10AM Local Here. For a full list of dates and artwork, see below.
On Hymns from the Hills, Poison Ruin ambitiously rewrite the very rules of what punk is capable of achieving, pushing their sound into expansive new terrains without sacrificing an ounce of the bleak symbolism and uncompromising aggression that first established them as an urgent new voice in the world of extreme music.
The Philadelphia punks have expanded their signature approach to grim mythmaking and scythe-swinging aggression in bold new directions, offering up a new body of songs that strike one as equal parts natural, undeniably of this world, and phantasmal.
On Hymns from the Hills, Poison Ruin’s previous stories of toil and dispossession are revealed to be but one chapter etched upon a bleaker tapestry- One populated by spirits traversing sunless deserts and wilted hillsides, demonic torture objects limning the edges of the psyche, bodies transfigured into Luciferian snakes, Sadean prisoners bound to the screaming silence of abandoned castle towers.
Poison Ruin’s signature form of raw, anthemic aggression pummels on lead single “Eidolon”. Frontman, lyricist and guitarist Mac Kennedy states, “‘Eidolon’ is about being stuck in a broken reality, a cog in a fate-machine doomed to play out the same cursed loop until it fully breaks down. The ones who had the power to affect change have abandoned the scene. Their phantoms loom down in quiet disapproval of the disaster that slowly plays out beneath-- Grim reminders of what could have, but will not be.”
Poison Ruin Live Dates:
Apr 11: New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
Apr 12: Medford, MA - Deep Cuts
Apr 13: Portland, ME - Genos
Apr 14: Portsmouth, NH - Press Room
Apr 15: Brattleboro, VT - The Stone Church
Apr 16: Montreal, QB - Petit Campus
Apr 17: Toronto, ON - The Garrison
Apr 18: Detroit, MI - Edgeman
Apr 19: Muskegon, MI - Rake Beer Project
Apr 21: Cincinnati, OH - Northside Tavern
Apr 22: Chicago, IL - Subterranean
Apr 23: Minneapolis, MN - Zhora Darling
Apr 24: Milwaukee, MN -Quarters
Apr 25: St. Louis, MO - The Sinkhole
Apr 26: Indianapolis, IN - Healer
Apr 28: Cleveland, OH - Happy Dog
Apr 29: Pittsburgh, PA - 222 Ormsby
Apr 30: Richmond, VA - Cobra Cabana
May 01: Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
May 02: Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
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