For Ruin Autumn 2011 - New guitarist, new music

It's been a while since we updated the site and there's been quite a few things happening beneath the surface...

Firstly we'd like to say farewell to our brother Drew who, for personal reasons, decided that he was going to head back home to the US earlier this year. We'd known this for a while but didn't want to confirm it until it had happened and we had found somebody that wanted to take over from him - Ronan Hayes (Belinus) has done just that and we are delighted to formally welcome him on board. He'll be playing his first show with us in Cork in early December - details to be announced very soon. Thanks to Drew for his many years with us - you're the best!

During late 2010 we completed writing 4 brand new songs. We played one of them ("Mere Mortals") live at Drew'd final show, but that's the only time any of the new songs have been presented publicly. In March 2011 we spent a weekend in Westland Studios in Dublin, recording a demo/promo of these 4 songs which will go out to labels pretty soon. Its a challenge for any band these days to get support to release and self-releases (like Last Light initially was before we licensed it to Casket) are becoming more common - but they are costly of course, so we'll see what happens.

The 4 songs recorded are "Mere Mortals", "Absentia", "Last Light" and "Liturgy"

You can check out the "Mere Mortals" demo below