Ruiner

Ruiner were a five-piece melodic hardcore band from Baltimore, Maryland that formed in 2004 and called it quits in 2010. They did reunite to play This Is Hardcore earlier this year though. Without a doubt these guys are one of my favourites from their era, which is saying a lot considering their peers were bands like Modern Life Is War and Verse. Ruiner played an intensely emotional form of hardcore, with very personal lyrics being shouted a top some pounding instrumentation, full of octave chords and the like. Their two full-lengths are stone-cold classics, as well as their one compilation, I Heard These Dudes Are Assholes, which includes all their early material. The only thing I'm missing here is their Under The Influence split with Attica! Attica! that includes a cover of Oasis' "Morning Glory", so if anyone happens to have it, please send it over. Besides that, enjoy!

Prepare To Be Let Down (2007)

1. Prepare To Be Let Down

2. Bottom Line: Fuck You

3. The Lives We Fear

4. That Stone Better Be On Fire

5. 40 Miles North

6. A Song For Beggars

7. Long Time Coming

8. Repetition

9. Choke On It

10. When The Morning Ends

11. Sleepless

12. Kiss That Motherfucker Good Night

I Heard These Dudes Are Assholes (2008)

1. Once Loved

2. Paint Peals

3. Adhering To Superstition

4. Lockjaw

5. Getting Over The Overs

6. Out Go The Candles

7. A Bridge Too Many

8. Six By Six

9. Dear Philadelphia

10. Sincerely

11. Paint Peals

12. Adhering To Superstition

13. Six By Six

14. The Lives We Fear

Hell Is Empty (2009)

1. I'm Out

2. Dead Weight

3. Two Words

4. Part One

5. Part Two

6. Convenient Gods

7. Meat

8. Loneliest Of Hearts

9. Committed

10. Solitary