My ruin

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My ruin
Tairrie B. live 2008
Tairrie B. live 2008
General information
origin Los Angeles , California , United States
Genre (s) Alternative metal , industrial metal , nu metal
founding 1999
Current occupation
Tairrie B. Murphy
Mick Murphy
Luciano Ferrea
Drums (live)
 Matt LeChevalier
former members
Electric guitar
 Melanie Makaiwi
Electric guitar
 Lance Webber
Electric bass
 Meghan Mattox
Drums
 Marcelo Palomino
E-Bass (Session)
 Anna Chaffee
Todd Osenbaugh
Drums
 Yael Benzaken
Electric bass
 Kenny Lowry
Electric bass
 Johnny Chow
Electric bass
 Mat Dauzat
Electric bass
 Chris Lisee
Drums
 Jason Brunk
Drums
 Jason Brunk

My Ruin is an American alternative , industrial and nu-metal band from Los Angeles , California that was formed in 1999.

history

The band was founded in 1999 by the singer Tairrie B. Previously she had been creative in the music scene, they had in 1990 together with Eazy-E and Schoolly D , the hip-hop album The Power of a Woman taken. After that she had also founded the band Manhole , which was later renamed Tura Satana. My Ruin, Tairrie B.'s initial solo project, was the first to release the cover single Tainted Love in 1999 , which also includes the songs Blasphemous Girl and Scars . In addition, the song Sick with It was used in the film 8mm - Eight Millimeters . In the same year, Speak and Destroy was the first album, which was initially only offered in Great Britain . In the USA, the album was only released the following year. The recordings for the album had both in Great Britain with Bushwaq as producer and in Los Angeles with the downset. Guitarist Brian "Ares" brother-in-law as producer. When songwriting is also the guitarist Melanie Makaiwi had earned while Lance Webber the other electric guitar, Meghan Mattox bass and the former Manhole- and Tura Satana-member Marcelo Palomino served the drums. Anna Chaffee was also involved as session bassist. Together with Palomino, Webber, Makaiwi, Mattox and keyboardist Todd Osenbaugh, they went on tour through Europe . Motivated by the guitarist Mick Murphy, Tairrie B. then decided to continue the project as a permanent band. The two recorded the 2000 album A Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish in Hollywood with bassist Mattox and a studio drummer , before a permanent drummer was found in Yael Benzaken. The album was released in the UK shortly after the US release of Speak and Destroy . Before the album was released, the single Beauty Fiend was available. A Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish appeared again in the USA with a year delay. The album includes cover versions of Do You Love Me? by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Black Flags My War . Like the previous album, this release was particularly successful in Great Britain, where the band's tours were also the most popular. In 2001 the live album To Britain with Love… and Bruises followed . In October of the same year Mattox left the cast, after which it was briefly replaced by Kenny Lowry, before Mattox returned to the group in February 2002. After the release of the live album, the band split from the Snapper Music label in a dispute . The label then released a compilation titled Blasphemous Girl in 2002 without the band's approval . Tairrie B. then asked the fans via the Internet to boycott the publication. Without a record deal followed appearances as opening act for Kittie on their tour, which My Ruin financed completely through the sale of merchandise . In November and December 2002 they went on tour through Great Britain with Charger and Murder One . After recording material for another album on a self-financed basis, the band signed a contract with Century Media . After the 2003 EP The Shape of Things to Come ... the album The Horror of Beauty was released at the end of October that year and was recorded at the end of 2002 . During the recordings for the album, cover versions of PJ Harvey's Rid of Me and Sex Junkies by Plasmatics were also made. In March 2004 SOiL went on a US tour, after which Mattox was no longer in the band. The post of bassist then changed several times. So at times Johnny Chow or on a tour through Great Britain in May 2004 together with Walls of Jericho Mat Dauzat used the instrument. In August, the split from Century Media became known. After the recordings for the album The Brutal Language , Yael Benzaken and Chow left the line-up in February 2005. The album was released online in May. The core of the band now consisted of Tairrie B. and Murphy, who were now a couple. Chris Lisee was added as bass player and Jason Brunk as drummer, the latter in turn being replaced by Matt LeChevalier. In July, Bleed the Sky joined a Jägermeister- sponsored Double Shot of Rock tour through the USA. In November, The Brutal Language was released on Underground Records in Europe. The recordings for the next CD should begin on September 29, 2006, but Tairrie B. injured her arm in a car accident the day before, which is why she had to undergo skin transplants until mid-October . On December 24th, she married Mick Murphy in Tennessee . In 2008 the studio album Throat Full of Heart and the live album Alive on the Other Side were released . After trying different labels over the past few years, the album A Southern Revelation was released as a free download from their website at the end of 2011 . The next album, The Sacred Mood, followed in 2013 .

style

Christian Graf found in his Nu Metal and Crossover Lexicon that Speak and Destroy consists of “a pretty crude cross between glam and hard rock , metal and gothic ”. A Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish is deliberately kept in a "70s ambience". According to Tairrie B., this was done on purpose to differentiate itself from the digitally processed rap rock of bands like Limp Bizkit . With this album, the band rose to become one of the few leading Nu-Metal bands to be led by a woman. Joel McIver described in his book The Next Generation of Rock & Punk Nu-Metal the singing as passionate, whereby the music mostly revolves around this. On A Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish this mostly consists of screaming . The album also reflects Tairrie B's obsession with Catholicism and sexuality, which she does in highly emotional songs.

Martin Popoff wrote in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties on Speak and Destroy that it contains sluggish industrial- influenced grunge . He compared Tairrie B. with Bif Naked and Courtney Love , with their singing being rather flat in comparison to the intonation . He also noticed that the text mostly deals with topics such as religion and sex. In the fourth volume of the book series, Popoff reviewed the album again and found that the music is extremely poetic and very industrial. A lot of vocal effects and speaking passages are used on this, which would be mixed with many atmospheric keyboard passages, technical drums and power chords . Tairrie B. relies heavily on symbolism on this album and deals with topics such as love, hate, relationships, sex, religion and friendship. There are lyrical parallels to X and Patti Smith . The songs also have a Marilyn Manson craze . Overall, a strong resemblance to Apollyon Sun can be seen.

Jan Jaedike from Rock Hard wrote in his review of Speak & Destroy that this is “cool to slightly psychotic late nineties boring rock with dull pop and industrial explosions”. The music is usually inconspicuous and contains vocals that consist of breaths, screams and rap passages. In a later issue, Conny Schiffbauer reviewed A Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish and found that the album sounds "overall more closed and heavier" than its predecessor. Then "sometimes psychotic-angry, sometimes hypothermic-spiritual" Nu-Metal songs can be heard. Characteristic are hard guitar riffs , synthesizer elements and a threatening speaking chant, which results in "a not quite everyday mixture of exorcism and psychotherapy", which is packed in an "ominous apocalyptic mood". Andreas Stappert noted in his review of The Horror of Beauty a steady increase since the first album. This album now characterizes "[g] eradeaus drying aggro-metal, fat Doom - and Sludgecore -Passagen, a few discreet nu-metal elements and a wonderfully rich thumping bass sound". The singing fluctuated between roars reminiscent of Phil Anselmo and spoken word sections. For Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann, also from Rock Hard , The Brutal Language had a "clumsy" character. He summarized the music as a mixture of sludge, "screaming core" and punk . Ronny Bittner stated that with Throat Full of Heart one has meanwhile reached an acceptable musical level, but there are only "average Nu-Metal and snot-rock riffs with still annoying screaming vocals and mediocre songs" and the instruments are only in the background "bobbing around". For Bittner, Ghosts and Good Stories was a “tighter performance” than its predecessor, but the songwriting is still not able to stand out from the average. The biggest weak point is the singing, which has not developed any further and sounds one-dimensional and monotonous, and is always roared in the same pitch.

Marco Götz from Metal Hammer assigned The Sacred Mood , like its predecessors, to alternative metal. The songs have a dark and "dirty" character, with the singing being a special trademark, the "aggressive screaming" that alternates with an "eccentric-psychopathic chanting". Also be Horrorpunk conditions influencing the fate in the style of Wednesday 13 and groovy stoner rock to hear -Passagen.

Discography

  • 1999: Tainted Love (single, Snapper Music )
  • 1999: Speak & Destroy (album, Madfish Records )
  • 1999: Terror (single, Snapper Music)
  • 2000: Beauty Fiend (single, Snapper Music)
  • 2000: A Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish (Album, Snapper Music)
  • 2001: To Britain with Love… and Bruises (Live Album, Snapper Music)
  • 2002: Blasphemous Girl (compilation, Snapper Music)
  • 2003: The Shape of Things to Come ... (EP, Century Media )
  • 2003: The Horror of Beauty (Album, Century Media)
  • 2003: Ruined 'n' Recalled (Compilation, Recall 2cd Records )
  • 2005: The Brutal Language (album, self-published)
  • 2008: Alive on the Other Side (Live-Album, Rovena Recordings )
  • 2008: Throat Full of Heart (Album, Rovena Recordings)
  • 2010: Ghosts and Good Stories (album, gravure music )
  • 2011: A Southern Revelation (album, self-published)
  • 2012: Southern Revelation Tour Promo Teaser (split with Godsized , Sanctorum and Long Day Fear, self-published)
  • 2013: The Sacred Mood (album, self-published)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h My Ruin. laut.de , accessed on March 23, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b c Gary Hill: My Ruin. Allmusic , accessed March 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Biography. rockdetector.com, archived from the original on April 9, 2016 ; accessed on March 31, 2018 .
  4. ^ A b c Christian Graf: Nu Metal and Crossover Lexicon . Lexikon Imprint Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89602-515-5 , p. 189 f .
  5. ↑ a b Joel McIver: The Next Generation of Rock & Punk Nu-Metal . Omnibus Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7119-9209-6 , p. 88 .
  6. ↑ MY RUIN: Do Not Buy Our "Greatest Hits" CD. Blabbermouth.net , accessed March 23, 2018 .
  7. ↑ My Ruin - The Shape Of Things To Come ... Discogs , accessed March 31, 2018 .
  8. ↑ My Ruin - The Sacred Mood. Discogs, accessed March 31, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 303 .
  10. ↑ Martin Popoff, David Perri: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2011, ISBN 978-1-926592-20-6 , pp. 341 .
  11. ↑ Jan Jaedike: My Ruin . Speak & Destroy. In: Rock Hard . No. 148 , September 1999, p. 96 .
  12. ↑ Conny Schiffbauer: My Ruin . A Prayer Under Pressure ... of Violent Anguish. In: Rock Hard . No. 162 , November 2000, pp. 92 .
  13. ↑ Andreas Stappert: My Ruin . The horror of beauty. In: Rock Hard . No. 198 , November 2003.
  14. ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: My Ruin . The Brutal Language. In: Rock Hard . No. 224 , January 2006.
  15. ^ Ronny Bittner: My Ruin . Throat full of heart. In: Rock Hard . No. 253 , June 2008.
  16. ^ Ronny Bittner: My Ruin . Ghosts and Good Stories. In: Rock Hard . No. 280 , September 2010.
  17. ↑ Marco Götz: My Ruin . The Sacred Mood. In: Metal Hammer . August 2013, p. 106 .