Next month, Philly’s Poison Ruin will launch their sophomore effort, Härvest. We’ve already posted the title observe, and at the moment the band is again with one other album preview: “Resurrection II.” The riffing, dramatic “Resurrection II” additionally has a black-and-white music video, filled with cool, metallic stuff like knights, useless knights, resurrected knights, and a tongue-in-cheek silent-film aesthetic.
“I’ve always found fantasy tropes to be incredibly evocative,” vocalist/guitarist Mac Kennedy says. “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.”
He provides: “Instead of knights in shining armor and dragons, it’s a peasant revolt. 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.”
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Härvest is out 4/14 through Relapse Records.