The Ruiner: The Ruiner CD

Melbourne sludge metal that sounds like the inside of a collapsing building. Exactly what it needs to sound like.

The Ruiner have been doing heavy, miserable, crushing things to the Melbourne underground for years, and their self-titled record is the document you want for it. This is sludge and doom metal played by people who understand that the point is not technicality but weight, the kind of slow, grinding riff work that owes equal debts to Sleep, Eyehategod, and a particularly bad week. If you've been sleeping on Melbourne's heavier underground, this is a reasonable place to wake up. Australian made, Australian ugly.

Format: CD. Genre: Sludge Metal, Doom Metal, Stoner Rock. Country of origin: Australia (Melbourne). Original release: 2016.

Fans of: Sleep, Eyehategod, Melvins, High on Fire, Church of Misery.