POISON RUÏN - Härvest (Official Music Video)

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.

Capitalism confiscates the fruit of your labor and leaves you a harvest of poverty.

soo good

Perfect

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

This is f******awesome

i hear some punk sounds like ramones sounds great too

AMAZING

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

awsome punk rock

good stuff

Total Fucking SerfCore!!

I fucking love this band!!!!!

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

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

Real RADIO BIRDMAN vibes here!

this Rocks! 👍

I don't know how they managed to achieve such a cool work and convey the atmosphere with such a disgusting sound. <3

Finally some real "serf"rock lol

Hints of Mission of Burma mixed with The Seventh Seal

Kick Ass!🤘

So fucking awesome

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

So, is that Serf Punk?

KillingJokeRamonesNewModelArmy-ish! 🤟 🎶 🖤

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. 👌👌

Gotdamn! A great song finally emerges...

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

Sup, Baby Monsters

I love it

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.

It reminds me of Jay Reatard somehow

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

Rural Oï

total crap

Fantastic song ✨

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

The Ramones were just revived. 🍺

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

thanks

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

Reminds me of The Spits. I'm down!

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

Greatest lyrics

New Model Army would be very proud of this!

This track definitely isn't maidenless

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