Ruthless Order
Encyclopedia
Ruthless Order is a Russian
progressive
- death
-power metal
band formed in 2006.
Is among the most prominent Russian progressive metal
bands due to its unique style, combining technically sophisticated slow tempo guitar riffs varying from death metal
to blues
with injection of highly diversified vocals ranging from growl
to falsetto
as in power metal
.
Initially the musicians used to describe their style as Brutal Heavy Metal later transforming this into Progressive Death Power Metal considering it more compatible with the music they play.
Finally the album was released in 2008 by the label Metalhearts and met high critical acclaim and appraisal from audience and other musicians.
By this time the band was already known among the public and musicians to do outstanding stage performance, first of all of lead guitar
ist Nazaroid and vocalist Slaanesh.
Genes of Isolation helped Ruthless Order
to get strong position among both death
and power
metal bands in Russia and the band boosted the effect by active touring, winning several contests.
The second album, which is a concept one, bears working title Awakened Witnesses of Nascence and was partly inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey
and is dedicated to philosophical aspects of "the second birth" and Afterlife
.
In April 2010 the band signed the contract with the label "Grailight Production" http://www.myspace.com/grailight for the releasing of "Awakened Witnesses of Nascence" album. The album was released on Grailight on May 14 , 2010
On February, 15th, 2011 the first official video of the band for the track "Blind king of the World" was introduced to the public http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izPk0WbsTmo&feature=player_embedded
Reports and reviews:
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
progressive
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
- death
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
-power metal
Power metal
Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...
band formed in 2006.
Is among the most prominent Russian progressive metal
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
bands due to its unique style, combining technically sophisticated slow tempo guitar riffs varying from death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
to blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
with injection of highly diversified vocals ranging from growl
Death growl
A death growl, also known as death metal vocals, guttural vocals, death grunts, and harsh vocals among other names, is a vocalisation style usually employed by vocalists of the death metal and black metal music genre, but also used in a variety of heavy metal and hardcore punk subgenres.Death...
to falsetto
Falsetto
Falsetto is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave. It is produced by the vibration of the ligamentous edges of the vocal folds, in whole or in part...
as in power metal
Power metal
Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...
.
Initially the musicians used to describe their style as Brutal Heavy Metal later transforming this into Progressive Death Power Metal considering it more compatible with the music they play.
2006–2008: debut album
Though the album Genes of Isolation was actually recorded in winter 2006–2007 it took one year to find a label to take the risk of releasing the album with highly variative music, claiming this could have low commercial success.Finally the album was released in 2008 by the label Metalhearts and met high critical acclaim and appraisal from audience and other musicians.
By this time the band was already known among the public and musicians to do outstanding stage performance, first of all of lead guitar
Lead guitar
Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
ist Nazaroid and vocalist Slaanesh.
Genes of Isolation helped Ruthless Order
Ruthless Order
Ruthless Order is a Russian progressive - death-power metal band formed in 2006.Is among the most prominent Russian progressive metal bands due to its unique style, combining technically sophisticated slow tempo guitar riffs varying from death metal to blues with injection of highly diversified...
to get strong position among both death
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
and power
Power metal
Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...
metal bands in Russia and the band boosted the effect by active touring, winning several contests.
2008–present time
After the period of line-up adaptaion and changes, caused by the tendency to perform more technically advanced music, thу band returned to studio in 2009, having recorded short Demo with two tracks beforehand.The second album, which is a concept one, bears working title Awakened Witnesses of Nascence and was partly inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, and co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, partially inspired by Clarke's short story The Sentinel...
and is dedicated to philosophical aspects of "the second birth" and Afterlife
Afterlife
The afterlife is the belief that a part of, or essence of, or soul of an individual, which carries with it and confers personal identity, survives the death of the body of this world and this lifetime, by natural or supernatural means, in contrast to the belief in eternal...
.
In April 2010 the band signed the contract with the label "Grailight Production" http://www.myspace.com/grailight for the releasing of "Awakened Witnesses of Nascence" album. The album was released on Grailight on May 14 , 2010
On February, 15th, 2011 the first official video of the band for the track "Blind king of the World" was introduced to the public http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izPk0WbsTmo&feature=player_embedded
Line up
- Anton Slaanesh - vocals: growlDeath growlA death growl, also known as death metal vocals, guttural vocals, death grunts, and harsh vocals among other names, is a vocalisation style usually employed by vocalists of the death metal and black metal music genre, but also used in a variety of heavy metal and hardcore punk subgenres.Death...
, screamScreaming (music)Screaming is a vocal technique that is most popular in subgenres of heavy metal, punk and hard rock, including metalcore, deathcore, post-hardcore, groove metal, black metal, and grindcore...
,clean voice - Artyom Nazaroid - guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
- Michael Tasch - guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
- Evgeny Nekro - bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Michael Mike - drums
Genes of Isolation (2008)
- Desire for Submission
- Are you afraid of Judas?
- Cross the Bridge of Misery
- The verse of burning walls
- Memories of the lost wisdom
- Era of Estrangement
- Sad Girl
- Silent Night
Awakened Witnesses of Nascence (2010)
- Blind King of The World
- Dead Souls' Rock
- Lonely Ness to See
- New vision of the Afterdeath
- Silent Night
- Murk Imperative of Creation
- We Miss the Hell
- Era of Estrangement
- Shadowrain
Links
Reports and reviews:
- http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=273883#233709
- http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/ruthless_order/awakened_witnesses_of_nascence/
- http://www.darkside.ru/report/4124/
- http://www.heavymusic.ru/review/955/ruthless-order-genes-of-isolation/
- http://www.heavymusic.ru/interview/194/ruthless-order/
- http://www.darkside.ru/band/4771/
- http://www.1rock.ru/download/?fileid=29116
- http://www.headbanger.ru/reports/892?show_images=1
- http://www.metallibrary.ru/articles/gigs/p7/376.html