Philadelphia Punks POISON RUIN make their Relapse Records debut with their new album, Harvest! Evoking a rich tapestry of ice-caked forests, peasant revolts, and silent knights, POISON RUIN stab at the pulsing heart of what it means to live under the permanent midnight of contemporary life. With Harvest, the band aligns their sonic palette to their godless, medieval-inflected aesthetic symbolism, creating a record which strikes with an assured sense of blackened harmony. “I’ve always found fantasy tropes to be incredibly evocative,” vocalist Mac Kennedy notes, “that said, even though they are a set of symbols that seem to speak to most people of our generation, they are often either apolitical or co-opted for incredibly backwards politics.” Kennedy reworks fantasy imagery as a series of totems for the downtrodden, stripping it of its escapist tendencies and retooling it as a rich metaphor for the collective struggle over our shared reality: “Instead of knights in shining armor and dragons, it’s a peasant revolt,” Kennedy explains, “I’m all for protest songs, but with this band I’ve found that sometimes your message can reach a greater audience if you imbue it with a certain interactive, almost magical realist element.” The title track invokes images of feudal peasants, tithes, and money-hungry lords, sounding the horn of labor with the rallying cry, “Isn’t this our harvest? Isn’t this our feast to share?” Tales of the undead rising to take revenge upon those who have unknowingly wronged them spin out like pleasantly cathartic folktales (“Resurrection II”), while other tracks address the profound beauty and spirit of those making ends meet in the forsaken ends of POISON RUIN’s hometown of Philadelphia (“Blighted Quarter”). The band stares into the abyss of modern living with a sober and empathetic outlook, portraying our cracked reality as a complex and difficult to parse miasma of competing desires. With Harvest, POISON RUIN have constructed a richly chilling fable out of modern living. Their tale is as lurid as it is seductive, as much a promising fantasy as it is a dreary portrait of reality itself.

I'm calling it now. Favorite album of 2023.

Worker's anthem!

Finally someone running with Wipers' baton that gets the message. Poison Ruin are the real deal.

party like it's 1349 ☢

Oldschool forever! ⚔

I though it was going to be black metal or folk metal and it turned out to be some good old fashioned punk... AWESOME!!!

Got ticket for a show in April, can't wait to hear and see these guys playing. This music sounds so archaic and fresh, unique sounding and familiar at the same time, really a mix of awesomness...haha, happy to found this band.

Rural Oï

Radio Birdman guitsound + Cock sparrer anthem & Darkthrone Vibe!! Great song!! This is my favourite Band for 2023!!

Greatest lyrics

This is perfect

Fantastic song ✨

came over here from THE Last podcast on the left bois

So STOKED to see them at Over The Edge Fest in Dresden!!! 🔥

So, is that Serf Punk?

Shall we fight and bleed with this in the background, My favorite band is finally back

As if I could get even more hyped by this record. Well I do now, pre-ordered, and happy to see these guys are about to achieve a certain unanimity for pretty much all the metal/rock scenes' listeners with this upcoming album. Their music truly deserve it. But you all already know that now, and that's the cool point. 👌👌

Love this beat... I get serious Gun Club vibes with this and that is my jam. This is going on my playlist, heavy rotation....

Hell yeah!!!! Glad to see you guys on Relapse. Congrats!!

Thanks for the recommendation Marcus

Thanks for coming to Boise! Wad worth the drive.

This is the best song of at least the past decade

Here because of Last Podcast on the Left recommendation

3:25 fucking glorious

Just saw them. In boise! Thanks for coming to idaho. Poison Ruin is the best thing I've heard in years.

I don't know how they managed to achieve such a cool work and convey the atmosphere with such a disgusting sound.

This song is the best thing I've heard in years!!!!!

Finally some real "serf"rock lol

Another banger!

Can’t wait to dress in chainmail and go down to my local tavern to see them play

Just saw them in boise west coast 2024 ! Awesome set!

With the medieval references brought to mind, this came to mind: "I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week..." --Revolting Peasant Dennis in Monty Python The Holy Grail With that put to song in the sense of it, love it!

These guys are gonna start a peasant uprising

Great song and I love the way they did this video

soo good

Here by recommendation of LPOTL

No shot this band is signed with Relapse. Congrats I guess. Big label for this stellar of a sound….. hope they keep doing this sound signed to such a big company.

straight outta the dungeon with this one

I saw this bands artwork at a gig and I just knew this was the shit I'd been missing. "That looks like something from the '80's" . Now I was expecting something closer to death metal, but this is a rather pleasant surprise. Very English style sort of old skool doom, love it. Can't wait to see you live

Reminds me of The Spits. I'm down!

New Model Army would be very proud of this!

im speechless

Soooo good

The Last Podcast On The Left brought me here 😂

Perfect

this Rocks! 👍

I love it

I dig that bass tone

Best post punk song I've heard in years!

Some of the best punk in a hot minute, love it

I fucking love this band!!!!!

New album 😮

This is f******awesome

Sheeesh

Kick Ass!🤘

thanks

good stuff

2023

i hear some punk sounds like ramones sounds great too

480p ftw!

Опять мы почему-то оказались в начале 80-х

So fucking awesome

KillingJokeRamonesNewModelArmy-ish! 🤟 🎶 🖤

Hints of Mission of Burma mixed with The Seventh Seal

Dope, reminds me of Mission of Burma

awsome punk rock

Real RADIO BIRDMAN vibes here!

Fk this hits right rn

Это мы берем

☦️

Gotdamn! A great song finally emerges...

A call-to-arms song if the electric guitar was invented in 1632 instead of 1932>

Sup, Baby Monsters

This track definitely isn't maidenless

Total Fucking SerfCore!!

The Ramones were just revived. 🍺

Ramones 2023 ✓ but who gives A f#k. Feast to share

I was laughing at how bad this song was and then instantaneously, out of nowhere, became my favorite song. What else can I say, that shit is dope. And it sounds like they're talking about something or some shit I don't know.

Love it. I’ll crank it while I bring out my dead and fight the French, again.

Fits perfectly as THE theme song for the farmers protests in Germany right now, at least for those who do not side with the right wing populists

Йщф

Another song paying tribute to the planet Saturn (Satan👹Santa 🎅)

What in God's name is going on in this video???

true socialist shit, love it

We love Islam!

This band just straight up said: what if rip off Joy Division

AMAZING

This is Medieval Socialism 🚩🏴 the lyrics are the real deal here