Poison Ruin, have released “Guts (Lay Your Self Aside)”, the final single ahead of the release of their forthcoming album Hymns from the Hills, due next Friday via Relapse. For the new album, the band hooked up with Jonah Falco (F*cked Up, Career Suicide) Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Blood Incantation, Cavalera), to master. Poison Ruin kick off their North American Spring tour on April 11 in NYC at Bowery Ballroom.

“Hymns from the Hills extends both the cynicism and the defiant bravado of their established fantasy aesthetics. While the record continues Poison Ruin’s tradition of employing medieval-inflected fantasy imagery, Lyricist and vocalis Mac Kennedy does not intend for these figures to be read as historically accurate”. “I’m not very interested in conveying the historical facts of medieval culture. If we are to make sense of the present, we need to employ a more mythic mode of language and symbol to reach beyond the spiritual malaise that envelopes us. A mythic truth resonates within any time, but its echoes call from outside of time. Medieval and fantasy imagery are simply effective personal starting points for tapping into that mode of communication.”

Poison Ruin
Hymns from the Hills
Relapse Records

Intro
Lily Of the Valley
Hymn from the Hills
Eidolon
Howls From the Citadel
Pilgrimage
Guts (Lay Your Self Aside)
Turn To Dust
Puzzle Box
Serpent’s Curse
Sleeping Giant (Interlude)
Crescent Sun
The Standoff

Poison Ruin 2026 Tour Dates

Apr 11: New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
Apr 12: Medford, MA – Deep Cuts
Apr 13: Portland, ME – Genos
Apr 14: Portsmouth, NH – Press Room
Apr 15: Brattleboro, VT – The Stone Church
Apr 16: Montreal, QB – Petit Campus
Apr 17: Toronto, ON – The Garrison
Apr 18: Detroit, MI – Edgeman
Apr 19: Muskegon, MI – Rake Beer Project
Apr 21: Cincinnati, OH – Northside Tavern
Apr 22: Chicago, IL – Subterranean
Apr 23: Minneapolis, MN – Zhora Darling
Apr 24: Milwaukee, MN -Quarters
Apr 25: St. Louis, MO – The Sinkhole
Apr 26: Indianapolis, IN – Healer
Apr 28: Cleveland, OH – Happy Dog
Apr 29: Pittsburgh, PA – 222 Ormsby
Apr 30: Richmond, VA – Cobra Cabana
May 01: Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
May 02: Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
Apr 11 w/ Prision Postumo, Dollhouse, Savage Pleasure
Apr 12-15, 4/28 w/ Peace Talks
Apr 18-4/28 w/ Cruelster
Apr 29 – May 02 w/ The Serfs
May 02 w/ Marked Men, The Serfs, Zorn

Pre-order Hymns from the Hills by Poison Ruin HERE