For a 4-song EP, Standing In Ruin bowls in and punches like a double album by Dimmu Borgir.
Screeching demonic hordes of tortured samples
For a 4-song EP, Standing In Ruin bowls in and punches like a double album by Dimmu Borgir. “Seed” kicks the doors open with powerful guitars, thundering drums and screeching demonic hordes of tortured samples; an onslaught lasting only one minute, seventeen seconds in the ears, but an eternity within the mind. “Inner Corrosion” stealthily sneaks in before loping along with deft guitar stabs, growling synths, and dark synth-pads lurking in the shadows. “Hourglass” wears a slightly more synthetic, treated sound at first; letting the oily darkness of keyboards and sound design hold sway while a growing wave of dark drums and samples takes over, landing in a soulful yet dark place. The final title-track begins with gentle piano over atmospherics while bass guitar and synth roll into view, rounding out this EP with a quiet melancholic air amid the doom and destruction of the opening track.
Standing in Ruin is available on Errorgrid. [Bandcamp]
