### Ruins Of Faith: To the shrines of the ancestors

#### 27/02/09 || Kampfar

The trio (un)known as Ruins Of Faith hails from Georgia. I’m very glad I don’t. Sure, Whoreway is an absurd country contracting new diseases on a daily basis – a chlamydia cuntry about to fall we are – but at least we idiots can still brag about the quality of our metal scene. If you ever meet a Georgian doing the same, as in praising the Georgian metal scene, tell him to go easy on the acetone or else his brain will before long exit through his nose. Also tell him that Putin rules. So, time to do a half-hearted review then.

“To the shrines of the ancestors” isn’t a recent release, nor is it much good, so the only reason it gets the review it doesn’t deserve is because a fruitcake somehow affiliated with the band happened to ship their shit our way, obviously hoping any here at GD turned out mentally ill enough to utterly enjoy this all in all lackluster affair. You’re out of luck, punks.

Both band name and album title suggests a release heavily drenched in folk and general gayness, I bet you agree, and therefore mild surprise was at hand when first spinning this disc; the Georgians in question are namely preoccupied playing limp wristed black metal over sounds effects plastic and simple enough to make me think of Victoria Silvstedt. And I bet it speak volumes about the quality of their attempt at playing metal when the best track on this album turns out to be an atmospheric one not metal at all. “To the shrines of the ancestors (pt. II)” isn’t exactly a brilliant and breathtaking piece of acoustic art, it will be deleted with the rest, but it is nonetheless the only coherent track on here. The rest? Well, it sounds like song patching and not song writing to me.

If you fancy black metal of the gray kind – gray as in lacking both bite and atmosphere – executed and produced by a bunch of amateurs, you aren’t entirely right in the head. Stay away, this is just another shade of blandness.

3 out of 10.

- Information
- Released:
- Label: Haarbn Productions
- Website: Ruins Of Faith’s webhome
- Band
- Vasiko Doiashvili: vocals, guitar
- Vakhtang Tskhvitava: bass, keyboard
- Nikoloz Rukhadze: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. To the shrines of the ancestors (pt. I)
- 02. Pagan
- 03. Father fire
- 04. The everquest
- 05. To the shrines of the ancestors (pt. II)
- 06. Ruins of faith
- 07. Mournbringer
- 08. Solar eclypse
- 09. Murvan kru