VAGROND Ruins (2018) Digipak CD

Australian black metal doesn't get the international press it deserves, but anyone paying attention knows the local scene has been quietly producing some of the most uncompromising music on the planet. Vagrond are proof.

Ruins is a 2018 full length that sits firmly in the atmospheric black metal tradition, the kind of record that feels like it was recorded in a place where the eucalyptus meets the void. There's something distinctly Australian about that bleakness, and Vagrond channel it without apology. Supporting local dark and metal acts matters, and this is one worth having in your collection. If your shelves already hold Woods of Desolation or Drowning the Light, Ruins earns a place beside them.

Full length album. Digipak CD. Released 2018. Artist origin: Australia. Genre: Black Metal.

Fans of: Woods of Desolation, Drowning the Light, Austere