Within The Ruins is again with a brand new file Phenomena II due out August 23 and a brand new single “Fort In The Sky” streaming proper now! The file serves as a follow-up to Within The Ruins‘ 2014 album Phenomena, and is the band’s first effort since 2020’s Black Coronary heart.
“If you take heed to us, we hope you’re feeling such as you discovered some recent steel,” mentioned Within The Ruins guitarist Joe Cocchi. “After doing something for a very long time, it is simple to get caught in your methods. So, we all the time attempt to current one thing you have not heard earlier than—and you are not going to get anyplace else.”
Phenomena II was written and recorded at Cocchi‘s personal Tin Bridge Brewing firm in Westfield, MA, and was produced by Cocchi himself.
“We had written a handful of songs, and we have been looking for inspiration,” mentioned Cocchi. “We needed to have a good time the tenth anniversary of Phenomena, as a result of it was a pinnacle level of our profession. I wrote a demo that reminded [vocalist Steve Tinnon] of Phenomena. So, it was his thought to create Phenomena II. The kinds actually aligned by way of the distinctive guitar results and the themes the place every monitor tells a narrative from a comic book e-book character’s point-of-view.”
On the one, Cocchi added: “It has every part individuals need to hear from us out of the gate. There’s some old-school Within The Ruins in there. Lyrically, it is based mostly on The Punisher. He is a warfare veteran who has his household taken away from him. The central wrestle is, ‘Would he slightly be alive or reunite along with his household within the fortress within the sky?'”
Pre-orders for Phenomena II are available here.
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