We reached a lot of milestone markers in the success of Metal Noise in 2021 and while we weren’t able to bring you anywhere near as many live reviews as we’d hoped for or any summer Festival coverage (for obvious reasons), there were some real bucket list moments chalked off, including our fly on the
It’s snow joke that having reviewed 365 plus albums and EPs in 2021 this category is the toughest of the lot to make decisions upon. The Great Plague Years have served to reinvigorate the format with some bands even choosing to split an album into bite sized EP releases over 12 months to keep their
After unveiling their sophomore EP “A Hundred Voices” a couple of weeks back, we had the pleasure of a few minutes in the company of multi instrumentalist and vocalist Harvey Lake to chat about all things Ruina and the follow up to the much loved “Nemesis“. Thanks to the pre-release singles and very well put together
Captured by Victoria Boston with a special thank you to Tech-Fest regular Shaun Hodson of Loki Films, Ruina have shared a making of featurette for their recently released EP “A Hundred Voices” which we reviewed a couple of weeks back. It’s an absolute banger with every cut getting the full music video treatment and deserves
What is life without risk? If you don’t take a risk then it can’t pay off and you can’t get that adrenaline rush that accompanies it. So joining BrokenTooth onstage at Club 85 Hitchin on 7th August 2021 was the man, the myth, the legend that is Harvey Lake of Ruina for a cover of
Starting out in ancient history as the solo project of multi instrumentalist and man of many bands Harvey Lake before evolving into a fully fledged band with the desire to play live, towards the end of the winter of discontent in February 2020 Ruina unveiled their debut EP “Nemesis”. Utilizing the skills of 105mm Studios
As their last single “Stronger Than I” has clocked up just over 14k of Spotify streams in just 44 days, Ruina have chosen to treat us to another freshly squeezed piece of material in the venomous “Vipers Nest“. Sandwiched between the two cuts the band announced their signing to Dynamic Talent International as their booking
The promised return of Ruina with a brand new single called “Stronger Than I” has been a highly anticipated one thanks to numerous teases from multi instrumentalist Harvey Lake and it’s finally here in music video form, a day before appearing everywhere else you’d expect to find it. 105mm studios once again handle the audio
Oh how the mighty have fallen. Jimmy Page sold his soul to Puff Daddy so that he could have a big hit with “Come With Me” which appeared on the “Godzilla” movie soundtrack back in 1998 by getting together with an Orchestra and handing over the riff from “Kashmir” by his band Led Zeppelin. He
As March fast approaches and the promise of new material from Ruina, we caught up with main man Harvey Lake to chat about how he writes and records music for the band. Knowing no boundaries and loving to experiment, debut EP “Nemesis” was strictly Metallic Hardcore in a similar vein to early Deez Nuts. Since
