- Friday night 3 July*00:30, Gloria
* This artist is part of the Friday line-up. Concert starts at 00:30 on the night between Friday and Saturday.
Since their formation in 2020, the Philadelphia band Poison Ruïn have carved out a unique place for themselves on the modern punk and metal scene. And with their latest album, Hymns From The Hills, released this spring, they have truly brought their unique sound to fruition, where themes from the Dark Ages collide with gritty anarcho-punk.
In Poison Ruïn’s hands, medieval atmospheres and themes are not an escape from reality – on the contrary, they serve as a grim mirror for modern day society, where ordinary people are crushed into the mire by powerful rulers. We find ourselves in the midst of the dark ages, and Poison Ruïn delivers a plague-ridden soundtrack where classic crust punk is mixed with elements of traditional heavy metal, post-punk, black metal and medieval dungeon synth passages.
The anarchic spirit of punk meets dark, gothic atmospheres, whilst the band’s cold and eerie lo-fi sound has led reviewers to draw comparisons with the aesthetic of Norwegian black metal bands such as Darkthrone and Immortal.
With Hymns From The Hills, the band have managed to add more nuance to their sound without compromising on their raw, gritty core. The album has garnered excellent reviews from outlets including Pitchfork, which aptly wrote: “The Philadelphia punks sound like they were swept off to the Middle Ages in a mosh pit and immediately started a revolution.” Now the revolution is coming to Roskilde Festival, and it’s going to be grim and dirty.
