HERE you can download the song for a short time!

GHOSTS AND GOOD STORIES will be released – due to production-related reasons one week later – on August 27^th 2010 in Germany, August 30^th in the UK as well as on August 31st in the US and contains 13 tracks of pure heavy honesty that features intimate lyrics, intense music and an identity all its own, proving that like bottle of Whisky or fine wine, MY RUIN just keep getting better with time.

Produced by Mick Murphy and Josh Lynch, ‘Ghosts and Good Stories’ is a concept album centered around scripture inked in blood, sweat and tears, a testament to the love MY RUIN share as a band and as a couple which they continue to create together against all odds and outside forces.

LONG DARK NIGHT describes an insomnia fueled struggle to find the muse lost in sleepless evenings of losing faith, awake with the inability to create. This is a heavy metal torch song if ever there was one, paying homage to those little slices of death and life after midnight where the revelation will not be televised.

Get the song NOW and spread the word: MY RUIN are back and better than ever!

MY RUIN - Ghosts and Good Stories

The first reviews are pouring in and they are smashing!
Here is the gospel according to the press:

“Ghosts and Good Stories is gracefully bone-chilling, filled with teeth-chattering terror, and leaves your unworthy soul melted in a puddle on the floor. A masterpiece! 10/10″
Sara Heitman – Blistering.Com
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“Pantera attitude, Sabbathesque seventies poison, dirt southern touch, hardcore pride and a courageous tribute to Rollins Band: this is ‘Ghosts and Good Stories’! My Ruin are back with the right dose of high-handedness and brought to us one of the most sincere, shouted loud, sexual and intense records of this year! 8/10”
Simone Sacco – Metal Hammer Italy
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“This collection of beautifully told stories that unwind and unravel before our ears has plenty of bark and a bite to match. Ghosts and Good Stories is an onslaught from start to finish that doesn’t let up; there’s no room for fluff, no room for floundering and certainly no room for questions. My Ruin are pioneers of their own brand of metal that amalgamates so many different styles it can’t be pigeonholed or categorised.”
Lynsey Wright – Thrash Hits UK
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“My Ruin have mutated into something truly monstrous in recent years, as the chemistry between Tairrie B and Mick Murphy has evolved and sprouted wicked wings. Ghosts And Good Stories picks up where 2008’s Throat Full Of Heart left off, with an exhilarating barrage of warped stoner metal riffs and blister-razing gutter-punk.8/10”
Dom Lawson – Metal Hammer UK
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“My Ruin’s sixth official full length album – is their strongest outing since A Prayer Under Pressure Of Violent Anguish from 2000. On the musical front ‘Ghosts And Good Stories’ surpasses everything the band has done thus far.”
Carl Begai – Brave Words Bloody Knuckles
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“This is a powerhouse of an album. It packs a lot of power both vocally and musically
which is what My Ruin has always done well. 4/5″
Mike Grey – Soundsphere Magazine
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“Ghosts and Good Stories vocals and riffs are full of power, an intense delivery from an experienced alternative metal band. 8/10″
Hugo Countinho – Creepy Insight.Com
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“Ghosts and Good Stories their sixth volume literally has to be their most unified, binding, creative, epic whirlwind of pure velocity to date, fact.”
Nickie Hobbs – Devolution Magazine
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” ‘Ghosts And Good Stories’ is a perfect ode to the kind of grimy, smoke rock the band trade in.”
Darren Taylor – RockSound Magazine
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“My Ruin have no interest in delivering antiquated chills and thrills. Instead Mick Murphy delivers a Southern-tinged, Sabbath-y guitar assault, over which Tairrie rails against religion, more religion and, most succinctly, the current crop of vapid female pop singers! 7/10”
Kirk Miller –Decibel Magazine

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Also, NEMHAIN are featured in lots of the European press now! Next to many album reviews online – which arrive daily in our virtual letter boxes – there are numerous interviews and features in the printed rock and metal press as well.

Find features on NEMHAIN in the following magazines:

Metal Hammer (Germany + Greece + UK)
Rock Hard (Germany + Greece + Italy + Slovenia)
Sonic Seducer
Stardust
Orkus
Virus
Stage Magazine (Belgium)
Aardschock
Close-Up Magazine (Sweden)
Terrorizer (UK)
Big Cheese
Rocksound
u.v.m.

Online stuff you should see:

Amber on the cover of Belgium MINDVIEW MAGAZINE!

Mindview Magazine (Belgium) with Amber on the cover plus a 4 page story and a poster! CHECK THAT OUT!!!!
EMP (Germany)
Twilight Magazin (Germany)
burnyourears (Germany)
bizarre radio (Germany)

4 DAYS LEFT – FROM THE ASHES – OUT ON FRIDAY, JAN 22 2010!

Wir trafen M.A.N. Sänger Tony JJ. letzte Woche zum Interview um über das neue Album “Massive Audio Nerve” (VÖ: März 2010) zu sprechen, welches die Band zur Zeit aufnimmt.
Tony gewährt uns einen kleinen Einblick in die Vorproduktion zum album und erklärt uns auch was es mit diesem “Viertelton-System” auf sich hat, welches die Band auf dem neuen Album gerade perfektioniert.
Doch hört hier einfach selbst!!!

Ihr wollt reinhören – kein Problem – hier gibts die drei Teile zum hören!!!!

Rob Guz' guitar with 48 frets

From past to present time, different kinds of expressions within the “music worlds” have evolved and been combined with each other. This has given us exciting musical transformations in classic music, art music, folk music, popular music etc, as well as development of the “tools” of making music; music instruments, tone systems, tuning systems, composition techniques etc…
One issue that is continuing to be “separated” in a distinguished way, is the ideology and practice of using quarter/microtone semi tones, and how it is used in a traditional way, which appears to be very different from say like; Middle Eastern “raj”/popular- music , Indian music , compared to folk music from Sweden, Norway, Macedonia, Bulgaria etc…

However, in western music cultures there has been some experimentation with alternative tone systems; in classical/ modernism music, for example Charles Ives and Miklos Maros.
Even in rock/art rock music, there has been occasions of achievement towards this, Steve Vai and Jeff Beck for example, although, in these cases it should be considered as a momentary and solistic element in their music creativity as a whole…..It should also be mentioned that bands like Led Zeppelin and The Beatles only used the sound of “exotic” instruments in their songs, not the practice of alternative tone systems in itself.
Summary; regarding western popular music [pop, rock, punk, metal, hard rock, electronica, goth etc] no stringent and consistent use of quarter semi tones has been used by any artist or band so far.

…Until now!!!!!!

Rob Hakemo

M.A.N is very proud to declare to be the very first metal band ever to have incorporated what we call the “Full Scale Quarter Tone System” into our music – and metal music genre on the whole, resulting in the upcoming album “Massive, Audio, Nerve” by M.A.N. Full Scale Quarter Tone Systems [our own term] means that there are 24 quarter semi tones, instead of 12 “ordinary” semi tones, within reach of an octave [1200 cent]This has led to new kinds of expressions and possibilities that have never been heard before, especially when this concept -cultivated and formed by M.A.N- is featured by more than just a solistic issue in order of solo instrumentalist matter or a solo part, but covered by the string instrument section in whole songs, with state of equilibrium with the ordinary semi tone system…..

M.A.N will enter Grand Recording Studio on Sept 18:th to lay down 14 tracks for their upcoming release “Massive, Audio, Nerve”.
The album will be recorded and engineered by Svein Jensen, produced by M.A.N & Svein Jensen.
The mixing will be handled by Ulrich Wild ( Pantera, White Zombie, Deftones, Staind, Static-X, Limp Bizkit)

you can listen to the first sounds here:

Rob Hakemo (links) + Rob Guz (rechts) mit ihren ungewöhnlichen Saiteninstrumenten

Von Intwine mag man in Deutschland noch nicht viel gehört haben, aber wohl auch nur, weil ihr Deutschlanddebüt erst Ende Juli erscheinen wird. Am 14.08. wird “Kingdom Of Contradiction” auf dem deutschen Markt erhältlich sein und öffnet der Band erstmals die Pforten außerhalb der Beneluxländer. Dort sind sie laut der niederländischen Presse inzwischen in der “Oberliga der Rockmusik” angekommen, haben sie doch schon drei erfolgreiche Alben und elf Singles in den Charts platzieren können! Wer auf Musik á la Deftones und Seether steht, sollte bei Intwine unbedingt reinhören!

Intwine 2009