If one would be asked to describe Progressive Metal powerhouse Digital Ruin with a few key words, it would have to be: "Heavy, unique, dark, epic digital Metal." This Providence, Rhode Island dynamic Metal quartet had already flooded the metal underground for the last eight years with their unique and cutting-edge vision; their self-financed indie CD, Listen sold several thousand copies worldwide with no major distribution or promotion. Digital Ruin's first major release on InsideOut Music America, Dwelling in the Out, can only place them comfortably at the forefront of the resurgent progressive metal movement.
The band - vocalist Matt Pacheco, guitarist Dave Souza, drummer Tim Hart and bassist Mike Keegan list a varied and eclectic mix of influences: Queen, Machine Head, Dream Theater, Marillion and Stabbing Westward. In a similar fashion, Dwelling in the Out's ten finely-honed compositions are diverse in contrast and mood to one another and yet are all stamped with the trademark Digital Ruin sound.
Dwelling in the Out is nothing less than a masterful musical journal of the band members' moods, reflections and observations concerning loneliness, warfare, technology and the monotony of life in the dominant trash-culture that worships mediocrity and celebrity. Dwelling in the Out also succeeds in capturing the mixed emotions of battling through the corporate-directed death of progressive Metal and its pained resurrection in a fashion heretofore unheard.
Finally, a band with the foresight and clarity to remain true to its brilliant vision of the future of modern progressive metal and cares nothing about what is "popular," but will stop at nothing until they are heard...
Source: http://www.digitalruin.com
