Introducing - The 'Mi Ruina' Ring!

Dear Friends,
For a few months now I have been keeping a very well guarded secret close to my heart while working on a special project behind the scenes with Alex Palmer of Seventh Circle Artworks in the UK. Today I am excited to finally reveal that secret to all of you by way of this official press release!
♥
Mrs M

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!

London based custom jewellery company Seventh Circle Artworks is proud to announce the release of the new 'ℳi ℛuina' Ring designed by lead vocalist of the Los Angeles based metal band My Ruin and Blasphemous Girl designer Tairrie B on December 15th, 2011.

“When Alex Palmer approached me a few months back with the idea of collaborating on a high end design with him for his company SCA we were in the final stages of mixing our new album and I thought it would be a great opportunity for my two passions to come together and inspire each other. I began deconstructing and customizing one-of-a-kind limited edition merch for my band many years ago and in 2009 I launched my own online store for BGD [Blasphemous Girl Designs] - I love the concept of iconic, religiously cathartic statement pieces and covet worthy adornments. I put a lot of love and time into my collections which are all handmade and heartfelt. I think this is what the fans of my band appreciate about my designs and why I have such a loyal and dedicated following for BGD. I was flattered when Alex reached out to me wanting to work together. He is also a musician himself and we relate to one another as artists. With the 'ℳi ℛuina' Ring I wanted to create a keepsake that would have a timeless yet otherworldly feel to it and I think we achieved that. Although the number seven has a history that goes way back with deep spiritual significance, it also signifies something sacred for me on a personal level. I designed the ring to have 7 bands in honor of My Ruin’s new 7th album “A Southern Revelation” which we released as a free download and gift to fans on the 7th of December exclusively via our website at www.myruin.net" - Tairrie B.

This spectacular sterling silver, 3-part jointed armor ring incorporates 4 plain bands and 2 rosary bands on each side with the Spanish inscription “ℳi ℛuina Por Vida" [“My Ruin for Life”] engraved into the knuckle band. Each ring is hand crafted in London, oxidized and smoked to give it a subtle vintage, aged effect and is available in sizes L – Z+2 for men and women. The 'ℳi ℛuina' Ring is also featured on Tairrie B in the bands recently premiered new video for 'Tennessee Elegy' which she co directed and comes scented in her custom blended signature BGD oil inside a black velvet pouch with a personalized signed card.

[Tennessee Elegy - Video Still]

“I chose the phrase “ℳi ℛuina Por Vida” because I felt this represents my commitment towards my band and everything I believe in as an artist. It’s a motto of strength and stamina which goes hand in hand with the armor vibe and I hope fans and non fans of my band will be able to appreciate the sentiment behind it, along with the intricate detail and beauty in the way it was crafted with both feminine and masculine qualities which compliment each other. When Alex sent me the original master I was thrilled to see how amazing it turned out. It’s a bad ass ring and perfect way to adorn your middle finger!” – Tairrie B

Seventh Circle Artworks is a small, London based company specializing in custom made, hand crafted jewellery featuring 2 main artists/designers – Alex Palmer and John Poulter, between them combining over 15 years experience in the jewellery trade, underground rock/metal music scene and fine art/sculpture. The collaboration with Tairrie B of My Ruin follows on from SCA’s other work with doom metal legends Saint Vitus, Candlemass, Macabre and VON, Kirk Windstein, Jimmy Bower and Phil Anslemo from Down, alt. model/clothing designer Nina Kate and bass legend Ron Holzer of Trouble.

The 'ℳi ℛuina' Ring will be available exclusively at
www.seventhcircleartworks.com

Direct Link to Purchase:

http://www.seventhcircleartworks.com/#!__online-shop/my-ruin

Dom's Iron Sandwich - Video Review!

★ NEWSFLASH! ★

Check out what the awesome Dom Lawson of MUZU TV & Metal Hammer Magazine has to say in his video about My Ruin and "A Southern ℜevelation" - A simple "thank you Don" doesn't seem to sound sufficient because holy sh!t, we never expected this!

xo

Mrs M

5K - Kerrang Magazine Review!

★ NEWSFLASH! ★

Just found out we got our first 5/5K's in the new issue of Kerrang! Magazine out today in the UK. What a great way to celebrate the release and our slaying of the beast! Thank you to Paul Travers for this perfectly timed and awesome review.

xo

Mrs M

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MY RUIN - "A Southern ℜevelation" - KKKKK

Husband and wife sludge metallers turn in their most personal work yet.

Necessity might be Plato's mother of invention but adversity appears to be the progenitor of darkly vehement passion. Anyone familiar with My Ruin formidable frontwoman Tairrie B will know she's always been able to whip up a shitstorm of anger with her acerbic pen and ground glass vocal performance alike. In the past this has been trained on concepts such as misanthropy and religion but here she takes a more personal tack.

The inspiration might be relatively prosaic (lets face it My Ruin aren't the first band to consider themselves to have been stiffed by former recorded company) but songs like Middle Finger and The Soulless Beast are transformed into tales of personal betrayal and imbued with a near biblical sense of wrath.

Musically, they're at their most focused and compact, eschewing the trackless swampland they've been know to traverse in favour of driving slabs of momentum and some of the sharpest, most serrated hooks they've ever set down. This all makes for one of the most vital and impassioned albums released all year and with the band still unsigned, they're making it available for free from their website. Only a fool would miss out

By Paul Travers

Download: The Soulless Beast
For Fans of: Rollins Band, Cancer Bats & Electric Wizard

3 Killer Songs From My Ruin's Catalogue:
"Beauty Fiend" - A Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish - 2000
"Ready For Blood" - Throat Full Of Heart - 2008
"Long Dark Night" - Ghosts and Good Stories - 2010

A Southern Revelation - FREE DOWNLOAD!

Dear Friends,
It's after midnight and officially December 7th in Los Angeles which means, our new 7th album "A Southern ℜevelation" is awaiting you for your listening pleasure. Download our new album for free on the header link above and invite your friends to do the same. For those of you who have written us asking what you can do to help support our band and have offered to contribute to our DIY cause, this means a lot to us. Thank you. We have set up a “donate” button on our blog and we appreciate your continued rock love and support of our music and art.

Thinking back to the recording of our album with long time friend and co- producer Joel Stooksbury at Soundtrack Black Studio in snowy hills of East Tennessee, brings back many wonderful memories for us. We hope when you hear our new album you will feel the passion we put into it and understand why we felt the need to write and record it.

Thank you to our amazing friends and family who have stood by us and had our backs these past months -Michael Kuznetsky - Mona Miluski - Terry Sly - Mick Wood - Tor Burrows - Luciano Ferrea - Isaac Lee - Sam Murphy III - Marcelo Palomino and especially Joel Stooksbury along with his lovely wife Mindy for opening their hearts, home and studio to us. Go team!

THIS IS OUR SLAYING OF THE BEAST!

very truly yours,
Mr & Mrs M
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Photo by Marcelo Palomino

Album Release Party!

★It's 'A Southern ℜevelation' Celebration!★

Dear Friends,
My Ruin and ALS Presents would like you to join us for an intimate evening of rock this Saturday night December 10th to celebrate the release of our new seventh album "A Southern ℜevelation" which we have officially made available as a *FREE DOWNLOAD* and gift to fans on December 7th!

On The Rox is the private club located above The Roxy Theatre. Doors open at 8pm and we suggest you arrive early to ensure admittance. The party is 21+ and *FREE* but you must RSVP on the*GUEST LIST* to get in. Please email alspresents@gmail.com with your name and the number of guest you will be bringing.

My Ruin will be doing a special set with songs from our new album and we will have a few surprises thrown in the mix on stage. There will be drink specials at the bar named in honor of our new album + our good friend Scott Wood AKA - DJ Ska D will be on the turntables spinning our favorite classic rock and old school rap tunes before and after the show.

So remember to save the date, share our event and RSVP for the guest list to come dance, drink and rock hard with us until 2am!

DJ Ska D 8-10

My Ruin 10-11:30

DJ Ska D 11 -2

♥
Mrs M

'Tennessee Elegy' - Video Premiere!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are proud to present our long awaited new video for

❄TEℕℕESSEE EℒEGY❄

Directed by yours truly, Tor Burrows and Marcelo Palomino.

Enjoy the lament!

♥
Mrs M

Video Premiere Delayed!

Dear Friends,

Due to circumstances beyond our control, our new video premiere for

"❄TEℕℕESSEE EℒEGY❄

has been postponed until tomorrow. It seems all the power in our home/neighborhood went out late last night because of the crazy windstorm in Los Angeles, Thanks mother nature! We are currently at our studio on our trusty laptop as we are unable to access our home office computer at the moment which has our files. We promise our new video will be online as soon as possible, in the meantime here are a few more teaser shots for you and we apologize for the delay.

♥
Mrs M

My Ruin @The Slide Bar in Fullerton!

★ATTENTION FRIENDS in and around└A & the OC!★

In honor of our new album "A Southern ℜevelation" which we are making available as a ✯FREE DOWNLOAD✯ and gift to fans starting on December 7th exclusively via www.myruin.net - We will be playing a very special ✯FREE SHOW✯ at The Slidebar in Fullerton [to warm up for our UK tour in January/February] along with our friends Ana Kefr & All Hail The Yeti! The show is 21+ so come hang and have a drink with us cause it's gonna get loud!

♥
Mrs M


★www.anakefr.com

★www.allhailtheyeti.com

★www.slidebarfullerton.com

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For those of you on Facebook who plan on attending
please click the link below and join our event!
http://www.facebook.com/events/230692833660838/

'Tennessee Elegy' - Video Premiere Announcement!

Dear Friends

We are excited to announce the premiere of our new video for the song:

❄TEℕℕESSEE EℒEGY❄

from our upcoming album 'A Southern ℜevelation' which will take place here on Thursday, December 1st! Our beautiful new video, which features Luciano Ferrea on bass and drummer Isaac Lee who is the latest edition to the Mi Ruina familia, was co directed by yours truly along with former [Manhole, Tura Satana & My Ruin] drummer Marcelo Palomino of MFP Film Productions and Tor Burrows of Notorious Design. Marcelo also filmed the video and handled all the camera work while the editing and special effects were done by Tor Burrows who created My Ruin’s previous two videos for ‘Long Dark Night’ and ‘Excommunicated’ from our 2010 album ‘Ghosts and Good Stories’.

Being that we pride ourselves on being a DIY band and have no label supporting us, we really had no budget for this video so it was truly a labor of love and faith in friendships that helped to create ‘Tennessee Elegy’ and there was a lot of team work behind the scenes. Marcelo has been a close friend of mine for many years and was also my original drummer when I started out in my first band Manhole in the early 90’s. We’ve wanted to collaborate on a video for My Ruin for a while but it never seemed to be the right time until now. Celo is based in LA and we had a lot of fun shooting the video with him. Tor is based in the UK and there is the 8 hour time difference so we have learned to utilize Skype and Dropbox as our way of working together. She is a longtime fan turned friend who really understands our band and music deeply. Her attention to detail in bringing our songs to life by the use of interesting effects and iconic imagery with me is truly inspiring. The videos we create together feel very sacred and timeless which is also how we like to think of our albums.

Shot on a green screen in My Ruin’s rehearsal studio and deep in the heart of East LA at Evergreen cemetery, ‘Tennessee Elegy’ is a cold hard rocking lament that pays homage to the winter month in which ‘A Southern ℜevelation’ was recorded and sets the temperature for the new album with a cathartic release and therapeutic vent of anguish. Below are a few screen shot teasers for you before it's big reveal on top of white and snowy ground! So don't forget to mark your calendars, save the date and lose yourself in the sound on

THURSDAY, 1ST DECEMBER

♥

Mrs M

My Ruin @ The Whisky in Hollywood!

★ATTENTION FRIENDS in and around LOS ANGELES★

Friday, November 18th is our first of 3 warm up shows in Los Angeles for our January 2012 UK tour and we're kicking things off at our favorite Hollywood haunt The Whisky! This will be our new drummer Isaac Lee's first show with us and we are excited to be playing songs from our new album for the first time live! We are headlining the show but will be hitting the stage at 10:30 this time so get there early and get a good spot uo front to rock with us. Don't forget to say the passwords "Mi Ruina Por Vida" at the door for a sweet discount.

For those of you who attend this show, we have something special for you! There will be invites to join us for "Evening with My Ruin" -✞- A Southern ℜevelation ℂelebration" album release party on December 10th @ On The Rox [above the Roxy Theatre] in Hollywood. This will be an intimate show and night with the band that we want to share with our longtime LA family of friends and fans. We will have a rad DJ [Scott Wood AKA Ska-D] spinning our favorite tunes so there will be lots of dancing & drinking to be had and a night to remember. This party is *guest list only* so you must RSVP to the email address on the invite to get into the party. Our lovely merch girl Alana Wood will have the invites at our merch table so remember to get yours, email your names and mark your calendars!

For all my Blasphemous Girls, I have designed some new custom one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry especially for this show which are all scented in my signature oil. We have also dug out a few vintage guys & girls My Ruin shirts [in all sizes] from our vault that we will be be giving away *free with the purchase of a new shirt* while they last so don't forget to check those out while at the merch table along with all our other goodies. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the show! I'm long over due for a good night of SCREAMING!

♥
Mrs M

PS- For those of you on Facebook please click this link to join our event:

MY RUIN @THE WHISKY a GO GO -HOLLYWOOD, CA.

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★TICKET LINKS★

www.whiskyagogo.com
www.ticketweb.com
www.ticketmaster.com