Let’s be honest: the melodeath landscape’s gotten a bit… polite lately. Enter Ruinforge, Atlanta’s one-man stormcloud (hi, Jordan Fowler), who’s tossing a fresh grenade into the garden party. New single “Unforetold” drops October 17, and yeah, it’s got those Bodom-esque keyboard swirls, Wintersun-level ambition, and Ensiferum’s sense of drunken campfire grandeur. But don’t call it a tribute. Fowler’s got his own voice: part existential dread, part midnight forest sprint, all wrapped in riffs that actually remember to groove.
“Unforetold” follows last year’s Mist and Myth, a debut that quietly turned heads by refusing to choose between melody and menace. Nine tracks of mist-drenched sagas, swamp hauntings, oceanic nightmares. Fowler writes like he’s got stories to burn, not just scales to shred.
Mastered by Jordan Stoffel (Stoffel Recording Co.), the sound’s clean enough to hear every pick scrape, but raw enough to leave a bruise. It’s melodeath that remembers to breathe and occasionally howl at the moon.
Look, if you’re tired of bands that sound like Guitar Pro presets with extra blast beats, give this a spin. He’s just reminding you why you loved this genre in the first place: big feelings, bigger riffs, zero apologies.
Pre-save it. Or don’t. But when October 17 hits, you’ll know where to find it.
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