FOR RUIN „Last Light”

Music: Melodic Black/Death Metal
Country: Ireland
Web site: http://www.forruin.com
Duration: 39:33

ťThe base of every criticism should certainly be the formal analysis, which answers to first critic's question: Is the world, which the art is representing, a live organism or just a fiction?Ť by J.V.

ťLast LightŤ has a sound very easy to absorb. It is polished, it is melodic, it is catchy. Some quitar riffs are simply beautiful, drums are appropriative but a bit boring. Sound is weak and vocals would fit the atmosphere better with some reverb. Let's define 'sound is weak': it lacks power, brutality, something that would make music more dramatic. What is good though is that we hear a lot of different riffs, you can find variations of pure melody to some thrashy riffs.

Lyrics are the strongest proof that this band with it's ideas is floating in the place called 'nowhere'. 'Sleep', 'dreams', 'memory' and so on are words which belong to the world of imagination, something difficult to define, inconclusive, world beyond grasp.

The most disturbing problem of this album is a fact it beares no clear idea, it is powerless in it's contents. I am wondering if I dare to call this album 'a sovereign piece of art' for it lacks such an important part. I would rather entitle it 'pure sound' for non-specific minds. For someone who is quickly satisfied with (trivial) art. In general this band will stay unrecognized in the vast fields of melodic metal with this kind of approach.

In short, I would never listen to this album as many times as I did if I would not have to write a review. It does not function as a live organism, it gives me no reason to listen to it repeatedly. I am thirsty, but the glass is empty.

note: 4/10

Tracklist

1. Enlightened (Instrumental)
2. Care Of The Dead
3. Decline
4. In Suffering
5. Solace
6. Recoil
7. Crawl (Instrumental)
8. Deluge
9. Cold Call
10. Elysium

Line-up

John Murphy – Vocals, Guitar
Drew Myers – Guitar
Peter Lawlor – Bass
Pete Alcorn – Drums