{"id":11077,"date":"2022-11-25T13:12:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.progradar.org\/?p=11077"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:03:07","slug":"review-downriver-dead-men-go-ruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/progradar.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/11\/25\/review-downriver-dead-men-go-ruins\/","title":{"rendered":"Review – Downriver Dead men Go – Ruins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Downriver Dead Men Go<\/strong> is a cinematic post-rock band from Leiden, the Netherlands. Their highly anticipated third album?’Ruins’ has just been released. DDMG<\/strong> previously released two critically acclaimed albums:?’Tides’ in 2015 and?’Departures’ in 2018, gathering a loyal and ever-growing fan base. Both albums feature a mesmerizing, atmospheric, melancholic sound, ranging from post-rock to touches of <\/strong>prog and dark wave.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been a long time fan of the band from my association with FREIA Music<\/strong> through my work with Bad Elephant Music<\/strong> and every DDMG<\/strong> album is a dense, imposing and highly melodic musical experience.‘Ruins’ <\/em>takes that base and ramps up the tension to 11, a dark, brooding and utterly magnificent musical encounter that will linger long in the memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The guitars have that monolithic feel, as heavy and hard as age old granite yet hauntingly melodic at the same time. The music has a timeless grace to it, a melancholic leviathan that has a different concept of time or space than we do and has just awoken from an ageless slumber. There’s a wistful, desolate beauty to the songs starting with the timeless elegance of title track Ruins<\/em><\/strong> and the sparse grandeur of Secret<\/em><\/strong>. The sorrowful and plaintive pain evident in Helpless<\/em><\/strong> and Line in the Sand<\/em><\/strong> gives the tracks a thoughtful and mournful stateliness and the widescreen, cinematic magnificence of longest track Cruel World<\/em><\/strong> is a heart-wrenching joy to behold. The album closes with the short hypnotic apprehension of The Lie<\/em><\/strong> and you left feeling almost bereft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Ruins’<\/em> is an album of varying emotions, stark highs and solemn lows, it’s a reflective and meditative work of art that is the ultimate soundtrack to a cold and rainy day spent in front of a roaring fire and, in my opinion, is simply superb!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Released 24th November, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Order from bandcamp here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruins | Downriver Dead Men Go (bandcamp.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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