Poison Ruin have released the new song “Guts (Lay Your Self Aside)” as the final advance single from their upcoming album, Hymns from the Hills, which arrives April 3rd.
The song is a marriage of early punk rock with heavy metal melodicism, striking a balance similar to the early years of Iron Maiden.
The lo-fi verses and choruses have a direct punk rock energy to them cut against melodic metal guitar driven breaks with a bridge that sits somewhere between the space rock of Hawkwind and the more abstract interludes with spoken word passages that Iron Maiden would begin incorporating in the Bruce Dickinson years.
The difference between this new single and previous singles “Eidolon” and “Hymn from the Hills” showcase a band that is maximizing the space and range of a consciously limited palette. It manages to execute both the creativity under constraint of punk with the expansive creativity of fantasy without sacrificing the key elements of either.
Poison Ruin will kick off a North American tour on April 11th in New York City, with tickets available here. Check out the lyric video for “Guts (Lay Your Self Aside)” below.
