North America Tour kicks off April 11 at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom. New album out April 3 via Relapse Records.

Revered Philadelphia punks have expanded their signature approach to grim mythmaking and scythe-swinging aggression in bold new directions, offering up a new body of songs that strike one as equal parts natural, undeniably of this world, and phantasmal. LP is meticulously composed, a dense sculpture of rhythmic and tonal juxtapositions that regularly shift without warning, persistently commanding attention yet denying the comfort of predictability. Band ambitiously rewrite the very rules of what punk is capable of achieving, pushing their sound into expansive new terrains without sacrificing an ounce of the bleak symbolism and uncompromising aggression that first established them as an urgent new voice in the world of extreme music. The album’s title track “it is about living on the outside, by force or by choice, and what is lost and gained in the process” tells frontman, lyricist and guitarist Mac Kennedy. Group’s vision has grown substantially, pushing well past the tales of peasants and serfs that stood as allegories for contemporary alienation in their previous work. On this newest offering, their previous stories of toil and dispossession are revealed to be but one chapter etched upon a bleaker tapestry. ‘Hymn From the Hills’ is at once a forceful restatement of Poison Ruin‘s trademark sound and a departure from it. The crackling, cassette-dubbed darkness and crushing rhythms listeners have become accustomed to are buttressed by a carefully sculpted mosaic of new textures, from flourishes of Killing Joke hacksaw primitivism and blast-beats worthy of the Relapse catalogue number to crisp analog synth lines and ambient serenades reminiscent of Scott Walker and The Durutti Column. Like a serpent moving ever outward with spiraling circularity, album expands Poison Ruin‘s sonic landscape in imaginative new directions while maintaining its center of gravity firmly in the band’s already established mythos.

‘Hymns From The Hills’ Tracklist:

01 – Intro
02 – Lily Of The Valley
03 – Hymn From The Hills
04 – Eidolon
05 – Howls From The Citadel
06 – Pilgrimage
07 – Guts (Lay Your Self Aside)
08 – Turn To Dust
09 – Puzzle Box
10 – Serpent’s Curse
11 – Sleeping Giant (Interlude)
12 – Crescent Sun
13 – The Standoff

Poison Ruin‘s headlining North American Spring tour kicks off April 11 in NYC at Bowery Ballroom. The run covers the East Coast, Midwest and more with support from The Serfs, Prision Postumo, Cruelster, Dollhouse, Savage Pleasure, Peace Talks, Zorn and Marked Men on select dates. For a full list of dates and artwork, see below.

Poison Ruin Live Dates:

Apr 11: New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
Apr 12: Medford, MA – Deep Cuts
Apr 13: Portland, ME – Genos
Apr 14: Portsmouth, NH – Press Room
Apr 15: Brattleboro, VT – The Stone Church
Apr 16: Montreal, QB – Petit Campus
Apr 17: Toronto, ON – The Garrison
Apr 18: Detroit, MI – Edgeman
Apr 19: Muskegon, MI – Rake Beer Project
Apr 21: Cincinnati, OH – Northside Tavern
Apr 22: Chicago, IL – Subterranean
Apr 23: Minneapolis, MN – Zhora Darling
Apr 24: Milwaukee, MN -Quarters
Apr 25: St. Louis, MO – The Sinkhole
Apr 26: Indianapolis, IN – Healer
Apr 28: Cleveland, OH – Happy Dog
Apr 29: Pittsburgh, PA – 222 Ormsby
Apr 30: Richmond, VA – Cobra Cabana
May 01: Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
May 02: Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church

Apr 11 w/ Prision Postumo, Dollhouse, Savage Pleasure
Apr 12-15, 4/28 w/ Peace Talks
Apr 18-4/28 w/ Cruelster
Apr 29 – May 02 w/ The Serfs
May 02 w/ Marked Men, The Serfs, Zorn