Cork metallers For Ruin have spent the last four years blazing a trail and spreading the doctrine of metal, combining crushing black and death influences with melody and dynamics, all the while slowly building a dedicated following, and releasing their first album, December, in September 2007, with the follow-up, Last Light, in the can for release early this year, and a support slot with metal legends Paradise Lost and Rotting Christ in Belfast in April. With the promise of a faster, all-round heavier beast in the offing, DROP-D caught up with guitarist/vocalist and founder member John Murphy to talk recording, the industry and metal in general.
DROP-D: For Ruin was formed in 2003, what was the inspiration and influences behind its emergence?
JM: Well the first release was in 2003 and that's the first time people got to hear anything so I guess that's when the band was formed alright. A mate asked me to play drums for his black metal band Meiche, so I did that along with some guitars and stuff and we decided that it'd be a split demo so I went and recorded the few songs I had written over the previous while along with some covers and that's where it came from. It did ok, but I don't even think I own a copy of it now (ha ha) its a pretty mediocre release. Influences and inspiration? I don't know, I don't think about that much. I guess all of the music I listened to growing up along with my circumstances at the time...
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