The Birthday Girl.
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Photo by Scott Chalmers
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Hello Glasgow!
[Photo by Tor Burrows]
Hello Everyone,
We arrived safe to the UK yesterday and we've hit the ground running! Sorted our rad new merch with Jack Osborne, checked our gear sent by Chris Taylor & Chris Amplification, ran through a few songs at Sanctorum 's studio celebrated Isaac Lee's birthday with a delicious chocolate cake thanks to Terry Sly and managed to get a few hours sleep before we made our way to Scotland today. Just had dinner with our promoter/agent extraordinaire Mick Wood and everyone at a quaint little pub, met the guys in Long Day Fear and toasted my birthday at midnight with Fireball Whiskey shots compliments of my girl Tor Burrows at the hotel. Feeling healthy, strong and excited about the first show tomorrow at Classic Grand. Looking forward to seeing all our Scottish friends and fans. Come celebrate my birthday with me and stay for the after party / meet & greet with all the band following our set!
This is A Southern ℜevelation!
xo
Mrs M
On a cool side note, rather than black cat crossing our path on Friday the 13th, as we were waiting for our flight to leave LA, Black Sabbath crossed our path on Sunday the 15th and boarded the flight before ours to the UK at the same gate. We took this as a good omen! ✞
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Kerrang Tour Competition!
★ COMPETITION! ★
My Ruin have been picked as a tour to go see by Kerrang Magazine who are offering UK fans a chance to win 2 tickets to a show of your choice on our 'Southern ℜevelation' tour which starts tonight! Just email your name and contact number to swag@kerrang.com with My Ruin as the subject matter.
xo
Mrs M
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Eddie Brnabic & Jack Osborne!
[Photo by Maggie Young - Album Release Party @ On The Rox]
Dear Friends,
As I said in my previous post, we have two announcements we would like to make before leaving LA. This is the first...
It's with heavy hearts, that we must announce that our bass player Luciano Ferrea will not be joining us on the tour. Luciano is from Argentina and although he has lived in the states for many years now and working towards becoming a legal citizen sometimes shit just happens. You can't control the Government and unfortunately he had to deal with an unexpected issue that arose regarding his citizenship with immigration. Although everything is now fine behind the scenes, we were told by his attorney that it would take a couple months to resolve and get his proper paperwork so his leaving the country for the tour would not be a good idea at this time. Needless to say, we were all very sad because we love Luciano and were all looking forward to him joining us for his second tour of UK and our one off in France. We explored every avenue but there was nothing we could do but find someone else to fill in because we obviously couldn't cancel the tour. Luciano will be with us in spirit and he will be with us at our upcoming shows stateside after the tour and next time we come back to Britain! He is still in My Ruin.
That being said, we would like to introduce you all to Eddie Brnabic. Luciano has played with Eddie in Beggars Ball & Zappada and he is his very close friend. When Eddie kindly offered to stand in on bass, we graciously accepted to keep it in the family. We've known Eddie for a while now and he's a great guy not to mention an extremely talented a multi-instrumentalist similar to Mick. In fact they have a lot in common when it comes to music. Eddie began learning our set while we were on holiday in Tennessee and we've been quietly rehearsing and getting to know each other musically since we returned in the New Year. He's sounding rad and so is the set! On an interesting side note: he's also the very first dirty blonde we've had in the band. Speaking of firsts, this will be his first time touring the UK as well as our new drummer Isaac Lee's first time over so we hope all our friends and fans will welcome both our guys with open hearts and make them feel at home like you always make us feel. Please take a moment to add both Eddie and Isaac [if you haven't already] and send them some rock love. We recorded our last rehearsal and the band is on fire, ready to hit the stage with our special guests Godsized, Sanctorum and Long Day Fear. This is one heavy f**king bill so don't miss it!
Now for the second announcement, also having to do with the tour.....
As all of you know, Alana Wood has been doing our merch since 2005. She's done every show and tour with us over the past 7 years without missing one. Sadly, our girl is unable to come with us this time due to her new job. She just can't get the time off. Mick and I are heartbroken that she won't be with us and I know how much so many of you love Alana like we do, so I'm sure you will be as well but someone else who is also very special to us [and has a long time connection to My Ruin] has offered his help and once again, we are keeping it in the family. We are excited to announce that our good friend Jack Osborne will be manning the merch stall but that's not all. You'll just have to wait and see the other little surprise we have planned together!
Many of you know Jack from coming to our shows in the UK over many years and like Eddie, he rules so remember to make you way over to the merch booth and say hello. While you're there pick up a keepsake to add to your My Ruin and/or BGD collection. I have made lots of cool stuff and there is something for everyone to go home with a memento from the show no matter what the budget!
[Photo by Don Jackson Wyatt - The Cockpit - Leeds, UK 2011]
Get ready UK and France because here we come along with the lovely Miss Tor Burrows who will be armed with her new movie camera to capture it all on film for us! See you all this week when we kick off night one of our 'Southern ℜevelation' celebration of independence and our slaying of the beast with our middle fingers held high in Glasgow, Scotland for my birthday! There shall be plenty of screaming, drinking and dancing to be had by all.....especially yours truly.
♥
Mrs M
New 2012 Calendar Teaser!
Dear Friends,
As the hour grows closer to our leaving LA to head to the UK, I wanted to write a few words to say thank you again for the amazing feedback on the new album. It's a great feeling to see how many of you have downloaded since the release and even better to hear how much you love it. That makes what we do worth it and meaningful. We are really looking forward to playing it live!
We have a couple last minute announcements we will be posting here later this evening which might surprise many of you to find out but nothing to worry your pretty little heads about. Everything's cool and the tour is still full force! We're excited about all the shows and the action is go - so if you haven't got yourself a ticket yet, what are you waiting for? Get yours today @ www.ticketweb.co.uk and we'll see you at all the shows and after parties we have planned!
This is A Southern ℜevelation!
♥
Mrs M
Friday, January 13, 2012
London After Show Party!
★SCALA after show PARTY!★
For all of you planning to attend our show, keep your ticket stubs and meet us at Nambucca London following our set. The party will be hosted by Mick Wood and the lovely Miss Nickie Hobbs and Devolution Magazine with DJ sets from Alan 69 - Caz Mumin and rumor has it there will be a very special guest DJ set our rad friend Ben Ward of Orange Goblin who will be spinning nothing but classic heavy metal, doom, stoner, psych and 70's rock for your listening pleasure in celebration of our Southern ℜevelation!
xo
Mrs M
Total Rock.Com - Interview Today!
Hey Friends!
I taped a phone interview earlier this week with DJ Tee Pee of Total Rock radio in the UK! For those of you who would like to check it out, it airs today [Friday the 13th] between 12 noon - 3pm [UK time] on her show 'The Scream Zone' so click the link to tune in and listen!www.totalrock.com
xo
Mrs M
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Go Team Ruin!
ATTENTION TEAM RUIN - UK!
We looking forward to seeing you all at the shows & after parties and this first tour in 2012 being one to remember with our UK family and friends. Please continue to spread the word, post flyers, event and ticket links and share our tour related posts and videos on your Facebook pages and other social media sites.
Go Team Ruin!
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♥
Mrs M
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Alexandra Morgan
Amelia Connett
Amy Cudsen
Anne Goldsbrough
Becky Rowe
Bruce Powell
Charlie Bagnall
Claire Hankin
Gavin Oxley
Gemma Sheree
Greg Mackay
Helen Purvis
Jack Leeson
Jack Osborne
John Scott Fitzgerald
Janne Gronemeyer
Katie Richardson
Kayleigh B Brookes
Keely McIntosh
Kerry Stewart
Liam Baker
Lily Vendetta
Lisa Tyrrell
Louise Turk
Mike Ike
Mike James
Millie Crampton
Nikki Capener
Penny Batson
Ricky Appleton
Sam Preston
Steve Hackenbush
Steve Kenickie
Steven Chandler
Sue Clark
Suzi Turner
Tania Wood
Tanya Christenson
Tony O'Neill
Yvonne Pollock
Zerrin Of Persia
Taste Revenge - Interview with Carl Begai!
We would like to thank Rock scribe extraordinaire Carl Begai of Bravewords.com for taking the time to chat with us about our new album. Below you will find the interview as it was posted in full today on his website. Revenge is sweet. This is our spaying of the BEAST!
xo
Mrs M
MY RUIN
★T a s t e R e v e n g e★
Nobody in their right mind wants the publicity Tiefdruck Musik label boss Daniel Heerdmann is getting these days. Granted, it’s small scale recognition that likely won’t make it to a CNN news reel, but his so-called business practices have been yanked out into the open by My Ruin. A tale of band vs label conflict turning ugly is hardly unique, but My Ruin’s recent test of will is one for the books; or in this case, an album. Their new outing, A Southern Revelation, is a response to a record deal gone painfully awry, which saw the band’s 2010 album Ghosts And Good Stories die a premature death at the hands of Tiefdruck Musik. Not ones to go meekly into the night, vocalist/founder Tairrie B. Murphy and guitarist-turned-multi-intrumentalist/husband Mick Murphy chose to call Heerdmann out directly in response, first in a press release, and then in the lyrics on the new album. The attack is direct and leaves no question as to who’s leaving the ring with a bloody nose, metaphors be damned, and Tairrie is quite content being the one doing the damage.
Tairrie: “At this point I really don’t give a fuck. This man conned us; he snowed us big time. Calling him ‘The Soulless Beast’… it’s really true. He led us to believe that he was going to do all these things for us. When he approached us about the record deal – and we had a lot of conversations with him on Skype – he was cool. He told us that the reason we weren’t bigger is because nobody had ever promoted us properly because they didn’t know what to do with the band, but he could do the job. We were thinking ‘Wow, this guy really gets it.’ He told me that he’d been a fan since my Manhole days, that he saw me on tour supporting Fear Factory on the Demanufacture tour in 1996. I felt that we had a connection with this guy, which was amazing.”
“We got the deal going, and it was almost like a friend thing with this guy. We announced the signing while we were in the studio recording Ghosts And Good Stories, and soon after we got this really weird email from an old friend, Shaun Glass from Soil, who is now with Dirge Within. He told us we had to be really fucking careful because Daniel Heerdmann is a lying sack of shit. We wanted to know where that was coming from, and we told Shaun we were going to confront Daniel about it. I’m very open and forward when I want to know something.”
“So, I went to Daniel right after that and told him what Shaun had said, and Daniel had a comeback for everything, which was fine. At this point we’d signed the deal; what were we going to do? Daniel tried to really explain himself, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt because God knows people have had run-ins with My Ruin. There have been altercations, and I know some people out there talk shit about me and my husband. It did worry me a little in the back of my mind, but we decided to walk our own path, and as we got deeper into the record Daniel became even more supportive. He wanted to hear what we were doing and how the songs were coming along, and we’d never had that experience before. It was great. But, as soon as we got done with the record and we delivered it – and it was something we were so proud of – this guy did the Jeckyll and Hyde thing overnight.”
“It started spinning out of control with this man, to the point that my old self really would have gone at him, telling him to fuck off. I didn’t do that, I let my attorney handle it, and I cut off all contact with him. And this clown says to my attorney, ‘They deleted me on Facebook…’ It was like, ‘Really?! You asshole, you deleted our tour!”
Mick: “We were three or four weeks away from a European tour and a show at the Whiskey (in Los Angeles), we were flying in our drummer Matt LeChevalier from France, we were waiting for all this stuff, and we were basically in limbo.”
Tairrie: “Money transfers… Daniel bold faced lied to us saying that he did it, and then later ‘I never did it, I was never gonna do it.’”
Mick: “It was truly insane. So, we had to cancel Matt’s trip from France, cancel the tour, cancel on the Whiskey, and it was horrible. We were so let down and angry and betrayed that we eventually said ‘We’ve gotta write a record about this.’”
Keeping the nightmare scenario in mind, it’s surprising to find that A Southern Revelation isn’t a screaming, skin-flaying shitstorm of violence. On the contrary, it’s a step away from the grit metal approach of Ghosts And Good Stories, instead featuring a foundation rooted in hard-edge Southern rock. My Ruin hasn’t toned down their trademark attitude by any means, and there’s nothing soft or sellout about A Southern Revelation, but it’s definitely a different animal from its predecessor.
Mick: “I think this one stomps a little bit harder than Ghosts And Good Stories. I joke around with Tairrie about this – and in no way and I putting My Ruin in the same league as KISS – but I think Ghosts is like our Destroyer and A Southern Revelation is our Rock N’ Roll Over (laughs). All the music was written in LA because we had downtime, but I wrote differently this time. I just started playing guitar like the old days. I plugged into a practice amp and just started playing riffs and made little changes that way, instead of doing it in front of a big recording rig with guitar, bass and drums, trying to get a song done in a few hours. I took more time and wrote like a guitar player first. I think that changed the vibe a little, too. I’m really proud of the guitar on this record.”
Tairrie: “We weren’t really prepared to write another record. This thing sort of came to us naturally. We were sitting at home with a cancelled tour, pissed off and angry, unable to vent our frustration, and Mick started writing music. Me, not really paying attention to what he was doing, I was kind of writing my own letters to Daniel in a way that I may send some day. I was working out my thoughts on what I wanted to say to this guy, and I suddenly realized that I was writing lyrics. Next thing you know I had the song ‘Reckoning’. Mick told me he’d been working on new music, and things started to come together and fall into place as if they were meant to be.”
“For me ‘The Soulless Beast’, ‘Middle Finger’ and ‘Tennessee Elegy’ are the meat of the album lyrically. They encompass the theme of the album. ‘Soulless Beast’ was a song I worked on when we were in LA, and I wrote it several times because I couldn’t get it where I wanted it. In the beginning I wanted to write it like a biblical parable, but I wasn’t sure where I wanted to go with it. It wasn’t until we got to Tennessee, and it’s the funniest thing because we were staying with Mick’s family, and his mother pulled out her bible and some religious books for inspiration. I started to read the Book Of Revelation, and I hadn’t read it in a really long time. It was like I was having my own revelation. This is our seventh album, and the number seven figures very prominently in there. The Book Of Daniel is part of it, and it was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me!” It started unfolding itself and I started thinking about how the Beast is the abomination that causes desolation, which is what we were dealing with. So, the Book Of Revelation took center stage for me.”
Mick: “It’s like we’re starting our second decade reborn and even more focused, with our own definitive style.”
Tairrie: “The other thing I really love about this album is that it’s got a very heavy spoken vibe. I’ve been doing spoken work for many, many years and I’ve incorporated it on a lot of our albums, but I wanted to get a bit heavier with that on this record. I didn’t want to make it a full-on screaming record. I think ‘Soulless Beast’ really comes through with that style in there, breathing the vibe and energy of The LVRS project we do in there, which I really like.”
“I think that Ghosts And Good Stories and A Southern Revelation is our best work as artists to date. If anyone is discovering us right now, this is the time to do it because you can really get to know who we are.”
A Southern Revelation was recorded over Christmas 2010 during the Murphy’s holiday visit to Mick’s family in Knoxville, Tennessee. With no plans to record and no budget, they were invited by Mick’s friend of 20+ years and co-producer, Joel Stooksbury, to use his home studio to lay down the tracks. It was a gift they couldn’t refuse, just as A Southern Revelation is a gift to the My Ruin fans as a free download. Another surprising and risky move by Mr. and Mrs. Murphy.
Tairrie: “Basically – and I hate to say that this is the sad fact of it – a lot of people think that because we’re in magazines that Mick and Tairrie are rolling in dough. Fans don’t understand a lot of the business behind the scenes. They see you in a magazine or on tour, and they think you’re doing so well. We’re a do-it-yourself band and we always have been, so no matter what labels we’ve been on or what management we’ve had, in the end we’ve done it ourselves because no one seems to do their jobs when it comes to us. With Ghosts And Good Stories, that thing got out there and had so many downloads via torrent sites, and I couldn’t believe it. I was thinking that if that many people bought our record we’d be really successful. It blew my mind. So, when this whole thing with Daniel came about, we decided that we weren’t giving this man another record. No way in hell.”
“As we were making the new album we came to the conclusion that the biggest ‘Fuck you’ would be if we gave this record away for free. It didn’t cost us anything to make except time, and we wanted everyone to hear it. We wanted everyone to know what he did to us. And maybe this album will open the door for us, because we’re able to say ‘You’ve never heard of us, but here’s our new record. Download it, check us out and you’ll see we’re not a goth band (laughs), maybe you’ll like us.’”
Mick: “The way the industry has been going, the physical CD format is dying out in many ways. Most people download their music now. Physical record sales for a band our size, there isn’t much of a profit for the band. Why not give it away, and that might lead to more shows. We’d like to gig more.”
My Ruin have been in the trenches long enough to have earned a loyal fanbase, however, so although A Southern Revelation is free to all comers, they’ve received donations from those that believe the band deserves to profit (for a change) for their efforts.
Tairrie: “After we announced that the record was going to be free, we were bombarded with emails from people saying ‘I’ll pay for the record. Is there a place where I can donate money to you, because you’ve been through so much.’ We didn’t really think of that before they mentioned it, so we talked to some people about it, and now it’s possible for the fans to donate money for the record on the My Ruin website. We’re very appreciative of it, because we do everything ourselves.”
And that do-it-yourself drive is what keeps My Ruin kicking and screaming for more. At the very least, A Southern Revelation proves that so long as My Ruin have their pride, their friends, and the fans, the leeches within the music industry can’t bring them down.
Tairrie: “Some people say ‘When are My Ruin gonna give it up?’ Why do we have to give it up? I’ve been in this business for a long time and I’ve seen a lot of bands come and go. In the Manhole days there weren’t a lot of women around doing what I did. I’ve definitely watched the change. I feel like a veteran in this, and in many ways I feel like a woman that opened the door and kicked down some barriers for other women to come in, grab a microphone, and scream on it this way. I didn’t even know what I was doing when I started out. I was a fucking rapper, for God’s sake (laughs).”
“I remember sitting backstage at a Pantera show once, and I was watching a lot of the girls walking around back there. They’re all dressed sleazy and I’m listening to the talk about who in the band they were going to have sex with. I remember thinking to myself, ‘I don’t wanna fuck Phil, I wanna be Phil.’ I didn’t want that, I wanted to be that. That’s when I knew I wanted to be out there screaming and bloodletting and having those emotions. It wasn’t about that other shit and it never has been. It’s never been about money or those other rock n’ roll things for me or Mick.”
Ultimately, it’s about the love of music, which explains why Tairrie and Mick chose to put the nail gun away and end things on a positive note. Namely, a cover of the Van Halen classic, ‘Mean Street’.
Tairrie: “I love the fact that we have the ’70s Southern roots with Mick, and with me, in the early days I was going to Black Flag shows, NWA shows, I went to see the Go-Gos, so we have this melting pot of ideas. I did listen to KISS back in the day, and that classic rock is where we come together. We decided to cover Van Halen on the new album because we really loved doing the AC/DC thing (‘Have A Drink On Me’) and got a great response.”
Mick: “Fair Warning is one of the biggest records in my life. It’s almost underrated in Van Halen’s catalogue, but it’s a thick, chunky, mean record.”
Tairrie: “I think it definitely encompassed our feelings when we were making this record. We also felt at home, in a way, doing up the song like that.”
Mick: “Yeah, My Ruin lives on Mean Street (laughs).”
Thank you to Maggie Young
for the live photos and "Blasphemous Girl" photo
which accompany this interview.
Demon FM Radio - Interview Tonight!
Hey Friends!
I taped a fun little interview about the new album & tour with DJ Matt Smith of Demon FM radio in the UK! For those of you who would like to check out our chat it will be played on his show 'The Requiem' tonight at midnight [UK time] so tune into the link below and listen!
www.demonfm.co.uk
xo
Mrs M
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Mi Ruina Por Vida!
"We approached My Ruin scream queen and Blasphemous Girl designer Tairrie B about creating a unique ring with us to celebrate the release of their new 7th album 'A Southern ℜevelation' on December 7th. After months of keeping this secret close to our hearts, we are proud to reveal the 'ℳi ℛuina' Ring which is featured on Tairrie in My Ruin's latest video for 'Tennessee Elegy'. SCA is also a proud sponsor of My Ruin's 'Southern ℜevelation' Tour storming the UK in January 2012!"
- Alex Palmer / Seventh Circle Artworks
They say "a pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens"
but I prefer to wear silver when I scream...
The 'ℳi ℛuina' Ring!
My new creation, available now exclusively @
www.seventhcircleartworks.com
♥
Mrs M
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Paul Harries Limited Edition - Tairrie B Prints!
"I have known Tairrie B for 15 years and in that time we have done some great shoots together with Manhole, Tura Satana and My Ruin. If asked what she is like I should say - when she is good she is very very good but when she is bad she is horrid"
- Paul Harries
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Dear Friends,
In honor of my birthday this month, I am pleased to announce the release of 3 Limited Edition Collection prints by one of the world's top rock UK photographers Mr Paul Harries.
Now available to order at:
This collection covers my career in rock from my early days in Manhole, through Tura Satana to present day in My Ruin. Each image is printed on heavyweight gallery quality paper measuring 20"X24" (50cmX60cm approx) and comes personally signed by me and signed, numbered and embossed by Paul Harries. Price includes postage to any destination worldwide and is securely posted in a cardboard tube. You can purchase the prints individually or the full collection for a reduced price. The prints will be available to order online until January 21st and will not be sold again so whether it's a present for yourself or a friend don't miss out on this special Limited Edition Collection offer.
I was flattered when Paul approached me recently with the idea of doing this collection. We have known each other since 1996 when he first shot me backstage at the Splash Club in London for Kerrang Magazine. Over the years we became good friends and worked together on many memorable sessions for K! as well as various album cover and promo shoots for my bands. Paul was the first photographer to capture the real me behind his lens and as American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once said "The eyes are the antiquity of the soul". With this in mind, we chose these 3 iconic images from his vast vault of photographs because they best represent my personal journey and trilogy of rock & roll.
♥
Mrs M
MY RUIN - Circa 2008
TURA SATANA - Circa 1998
MANHOLE - Circa 1996
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Happy New Year!
Photo by Don Jackson Wyatt - Wolverhampton, UK
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Forget ℛesolutions
Make A Southern ℜevelation!
Dear Friends ,
As 2011 comes to a close and we celebrate the triumphant release of our new 7th album, we would like to remind you how important it is to stand by underground artists that continue to do it for themselves and invite you to raise your middle fingers to toast the true spirit of independence by rocking in 2012 with "A Southern ℜevelation" compliments of My Ruin.
Recorded this time last year in the snow covered hills of Tennessee, we bring you 10 tracks of pure hard rock heaviosity with a beautifully brutal blend of violent scream vocals and spoken word for your listening pleasure. Visit www.myruin.net to download your FREE copy of our new 7th album and spend the New Year with our slaying of the beast!
For those of you who would like to make a donation towards our band, DIY ethic and art which allows and inspires us to create the music we make, not for the faint of heart, there is a "Donate" button on our blog and we wish to thank you for your continued support.
Although the album has been out for only a few short weeks, the reviews have been a stunning success. Here are a few quotes of the gospel according to the press:
"Husband and wife sludge metallers turn in their most personal work yet. Anyone familiar with My Ruin's formidable frontwoman Tairrie B will know she's always been able to whip up a shitstorm of anger with her acerbic pen and ground glass vocal performance alike. One of the most vital and impassioned albums released all year."
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"A Southern Revelation is the stuff that legends are made of and I believe it to be the bands best, most important and exciting record to date. Sounds like Ghosts and Good Stories meaner older sister, only badder and more defiant than ever."
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"Mick Murphy's guitar playing shines through yet again with his beautiful tone and mesmerizing solo's coming to the fore. Another prominent factor is the groove the album has. I believe it would give Down a run for their money too. I can honestly say this is without a doubt the album of the year."
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"Having progressively honed their sound over the course of those ten years, in no part due to the connection between vocalist Tairrie and her husband Mick, My Ruin in 2011 is an absolute beast of a band and A Southern Revelation is an absolute beast of an album. Written in the darkest depths of Knoxville, Tairrie has penned some of her most brutal, her most honest and her most dramatic lyrics to date."
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"Mick Murphy's guitar solos provide a welcome nod back to a time when solos were an integral part of songs, pulling off some truly awesome shit along the way. It should also be no surprise that Tairrie spits incredible amounts of vitriol in her lyrics, railing against what I'm sure many of us with any musical integrity can appreciate. Fuck the vacuous shit that clutters record shop shelves with major label on the outside and utter shit on the inside, go get some real fucking music.”
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“The duo of Tairrie B. Murphy and Mick Murphy are in lock-step with each other when it comes to the barren, but bruising biker metal sound they present. Most of it comes from Mick Murphy, who seemingly has a never-ending stable of riffs that Zakk Wylde or any faux Southern rocker would gnaw at.”
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"A pretty intense offering from one of metal's most underrated acts. A focused, heavy and very listenable album on the surface with a seething pit of catharsis beneath, this could be the one to finally win the rest of the world over to My Ruin."
4/5 - Dani Hawkins / OneMetal.com
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"The moral of this album’s story - do NOT piss off Tairrie B. Pretty much everything you’d expect from a My Ruin album and, dare I say it, one of their strongest for a while. Like I say, definitely a sign that triumph can come out of adversity if you’re smart enough to focus your anger where it does the most damage – in your music. Recommended."
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"A Southern Revelation takes you on a roller coaster of solid rock and raw metal sounds. Uniting everything that has allowed My Ruin to progress, it truly demonstrates the band's full potential."
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"Call it nine shots of venom capped off with a chaser celebrating the good old days, served up as a middle finger dedicated to Tiefdruck Musik boss Daniel Heerdmann."
"Recorded in Mick’s hometown Knoxville in January against a snowy winter wonderland backdrop, the album reflects the harsh, cold relentless weather conditions in which it was produced. With work starting a mere 4 months after the release of ‘Ghosts and Good Stories’, My Ruin managed to keep the whole project a secret from their fans before finally coming clean in September. As is now the norm with My Ruin releases, the metal-machine Mick Murphy plays all the instruments, writes all the music and co-produces the album. Tairrie B Murphy’s vocals continue to astound with each release, perfectly complementing her husband’s musical creations. These kindred spirits in rock cannot help but continue to impress."
Hayley Davies / Ruinz of Ayanez
"The beauty of this fiend is it bows to all the musical mavericks; gracefully tipping a hat, as much to the heaviness of Zeppelin as to the abstract funk of Dr. John. Simply ‘A Southern Revelation’ is awesome!!!"
Jonathan Taylor / An Armchair Critic
Thank you again to all our friends, fans and My Ruin familia worldwide for the continued love and loyalty as well as our amazing Southern ℜevelation team behind the scenes...Soundtrack Black Studio, Platinum PR, Monsta Ents, STC Touring, Kuznetsky Law Group, Laney Amplification, Auburn Fox and our band! See you all on the other side of midnight as we look ahead to the future and ring in a New Year that ROCKS!
ℳI RUINA ✞ ℙOR VIDA
♥
Mr & Mrs M
"Woke up today and saw our life flash right before our eyes - Were left for dead but once again from ashes we will rise." - Reckoning
Knoxville, Tennessee
December 2011
The Funhouse - 90.3 WUTK!
THE FUNHOUSE
Thanks to everyone who tuned in last night. It was an awesome train wreck and we had a blast hanging with our friends and DJ's Rob Levering & Derek Senter in the Funhouse on their 90.3 WUTK The Rock radio show here in Knoxville, Tennessee where we've been hiding out for the holidays. Make sure you tune into their show from 8-10 every Friday night at www.wutk.com - Thanks again for having us down guys!
Shouts out to...Horns of The Headless, Finklesteen, Pick Up The Snake and Serene Scream! Looking forward to this evening when we all blow the roof off Soundtrack Black Studio [where we recorded our new album this time last year] together as we rock and ring in the New Year with all the Knox-Villains!
xo
Mrs M
Me & Mr M
Me and the brothers Murphy
L to R -->with Rob, Mick, Sam III, Derek
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Devolution Magazine Cover Preview!
★ Rock 'N' Roll ℜevelation! ★
"We speak to Mick & Tairrie B Murphy about their fight back to the music industry and how they used their music as a weapon."
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Check out the new cover of Devolution Magazine which has been unveiled and is coming soon featuring My Ruin interviewed by Editor extraordinaire and one of the hardest working women in rock Miss Nickie Hobbs!
The new issue also includes My Ruin's "Southern ℜevelation Tour" limited edition promo CD sampler I designed which features 2 tracks from our new album + 1 track from each of our support bands Godsized, Sanctorum & Long Day Fear with a spoken word introduction / personal message about the tour by yours truly!
These are nice mementos to bring to the shows and have signed by the bands so keep your eyes peeled to order your copy and show your support for true DIY independent artists & ethos!
♥
Mrs M
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