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2026 . Poison Ruin return with their highly anticipated sophomore LP, Hymns From the Hills. Building off the strengths of their existing oeuvre, the band has developed their signature approach to grim mythmaking and scythe-swinging aggression in bold new directions, offering up a new body of songs that strike one as equal parts natural, undeniably of this world, and phantasmal. The record is at once a forceful restatement of Poison Ruin's trademark sound and a departure from it, the crackling, cassette-dubbed darkness and crushing rhythms listeners have become accustomed to buttressed by a carefully sculpted mosaic of new textures, from flourishes of Killing Joke hacksaw primitivism and blast-beats worthy of the Relapse catalogue number to crisp analog synth lines and ambient serenades reminiscent of Scott Walker and The Durutti Column. Like a serpent moving ever outward with spiraling circularity, Hymns From the Hills expands Poison Ruin's sonic landscape in imaginative new directions while maintaining it's center of gravity firmly in the band's already established mythos. Album Tracks 1. Intro 2. Lily of the Valley 3. Hymn from the Hills 4. Eidolon 5. Howls from the Citadel 6. Pilgrimage 7. Guts (Lay Your Self Aside) 8. Turn to Dust 9. Puzzle Box 10. Serpent's Curse 11. Sleeping Giant (Interlude) 12. Crescent Sun 13. The Standoff
