Ruinside - The Hunt

From Finland, Tampere in fact, this is a melodic thrash band and it makes a refreshing change judging by the recent output of that location. Ruinside take many areas of the post thrash genre and combine some epic moments, like those within ‘Burst into Flames’, to bring a sound that has some thought behind it. However, with a thrash tag, I do personally prefer something of more heads down vigorosity, but Ruinside manage various influences to give you something of greater depth and substance. The vocal style of Tony Salminen crosses sounds between Rob Flynn and Chuck Billy, both of these are of course great references and well deserved. The vigorous requirement I touched upon earlier comes to you via the beginning of the album. ‘Shower of Accusations’ is very modern, it is rather heavy, I find it is banging heads with some more modern sounds like that of newer Testament etc… There is a melodic sense is also rather redeeming, especially the good vocal harmonies and the overall pace of the riffs used develop their sound, so much so that to me Ruinside really sound American. But…‘Beware!’….there be synths at large! But rather than overbearing the group’s song, this passes as a perfectly palatable accompaniment. The said solo from this said track is pretty damn good, yes Skolnick would be proud.


There is a constant rhythmic barrage that is the syncopation from the rhythm guitars blending with modern thrash riffs. Rather restricting themselves with a breakdown for something to do, Ruinside add riffs and tweaks here and there, thus providing much musical interest. Moving onto ‘Hunters of Divine Society’ brushes the albums loose theme that is, manhunt, witchhunt etc, Salminen’s epic vocal is great, I am not too keen in the gruff angry man vocals provided by one of the guitarists. ‘Hunters….’ and the following track ‘Witch Hammer’ both stand out on this album. There is the great level of construction, the track begins at one place, then each following moment builds a bit further, although I would say that ‘Witch Hammer’ is more suited to the Symphorce/Power metal style of slow atmospheric than that of thrash metal, even if it is termed “melodic”, there is talent to be commended in the bands musical arsenal, this is a pretty decent release but I do prefer the more epic tracks than those that are more of what I would call modern thrash. Ruinside are certainly worth checking out, but you do need to give this album a number of spins before you become fully converse with the Ruinside way of doing things.


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  1. The End (Intro)
  2. Shower Of Accusations
  3. Beware!
  4. Hunters Of Divine Society
  5. Witch Hammer (Malleus Maleficarum)
  6. Hide And Seek
  7. Labyrinth Of Silence
  8. Wounded And Defeated
  9. Within Hammer And Tongs
  10. Beleagured
  11. T.O.R.T.U.R.E.
  12. Forced Confession
  13. Burst Into Flames

Reviewer: twansibon
Jan 2, 2013
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