Leader To Ruin
About Leader To Ruin from Auckland
Leader to Ruin was formed from the ashes of two dying rival bands in 2003. Rory and Justin would meet secretly - unknown to the members of their respective bands - to join forces and engineer something greater than the sum of the two bands. What they came up with was a Frankenstein monster of the favourite genres of their assembled lineup - blending elements of hardcore, industrial and death metal. This amalgamation of their main influences (which includes Fear Factory, Tool, Lamb of God, Meshuggah and The Black Dahlia Murder) is a unique style of aggressive music that has appeal among not only metal fans, but people of all musical tastes.
As seasoned frequenters of shows themselves, their music is designed specifically to best facilitate the moshing efforts of their audience. They attack you with a brutally unrelenting intensity that refuses to let you regain your composure even for a moment. Instead, their dizzying overlapping rhythms and sudden dynamic shifts will likely cause you to find yourself in a frenzy - throwing windmills and spin-kicking people in the face!
Their lyrical content is a sardonic pastiche of taboo
and inappropriate subject matter. Facetious and excessively offensive,
their lyrics are intended to draw a response of indignant outrage in
order to expose the horrors, contradictions and even the absurdity of
the things in life that we would rather ignore.
Having played alongside the likes of 8 Foot Sativa, Parkway Drive, Cold
By Winter, Antagonist, and Bleeders, Leader to Ruin have firmly
established themselves as the class clowns of Auckland’s Hardcore and
Metal scene - notorious for their entertaining act. They go out of their way to stick it to anyone who has the audacity to
turn up to one of their shows expecting to be allowed to stand at the
back of the room with their arms crossed. All inhibitions go out the
window when this band takes the stage, and everyone is expected to act
accordingly.
Come, let the warm, moist sound of this finely tuned machine sooth your loins and complete what had, until you experienced Leader to Ruin, been worthless, unfulfilling lives. For then when your grand-children ask if you ever saw the mighty Leader to Ruin, you may get a wee bit emotional, you may even shed a tear, but you will be able to say with great honour and pride... "Yes... Yes I have!
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