Arise & Ruin Night Storms Hailfire
by Matthew Hoffman
Staff Writer
Arise & Ruin has released their 2nd full length record Night Storms Hailfire available now on Victory Records. Formed in 2004 Arise & Ruin hail from Guelph Ontario, Canada and play some sort of “metal” music.
The actual style is far from distinguishable and even further from entertaining.
The songs melt into one another, void of any excitement or highly charged pieces. Many of them feature the same boring bland played out clichéd songs that metal-core has made enemies by passing off as real metal. As far as talent it is indiscernible here on Night Storms Hailfire because the song-writing is void of enough structure to exercise any real musicianship.
The worst part of the record is the final song “The Long Haul” which when seeing the length portends to be an epic song. It is rather the dumbest two minute song and then four minutes of dead airspace and then a retarded incomprehensible mess of a death metal attempt as the album ends. Way to end on a high note boy. Who the hell thought this was actually a good idea?
The actual music is harried and rushed with below average extreme/HC vocals from Ryan Bauchman and really the only thing that is decent is the drumming of Derek Prince-Cox. His pure basic yet clean work at the end of “A Heavy Dose” is a great example.
There are a couple of cool hardcore breakdowns stuck inside of a few of the cuts but they only make you wonder why this band doesn’t do 100% hardcore.
After a pretty cool spirited debut The Final Dawn the band decided to play it safe and not expand their metal acumen. There is no improvement or maturity as a band here and little to no risks were taken. In the world of great young dominant bands like God Forbid, Luna Mortis and This Ending, Arise & Ruin need to step up their game to truly compete. After hearing the album the sentence that best describes your feelings is “this was the best they could do”?
This album is not recommended for purchase.
Label: Victory Records
Band Members
Ryan Bauchman -Vocals
Brent Munger -Guitars
Sam Pattison -Guitars
Ben Alexis -Bass
Derek Prince-Cox -Drums
Track Listing
1. Forever Damned
2. Bring The Rain
3. Doom Sentence
4. Thrashburn
5. A Heavy Dose
6. In Death
7. The Aftermath
8. Brothers In Arms
9. Night Storms Hailfire
10. This Is War
11. The Long Haul
Rating 5.1/10