MY RUIN Covers AC/DC For METAL HAMMER Compilation

MY RUIN, the Los Angeles duo consisting of vocalist Tairrie B. and multi-instrumentalist Mick Murphy, has issued the following update:

"To celebrate the 30th anniversary of AC/DC's classic 'Back In Black' album, [U.K.'s] Metal Hammer magazine has put together a kick-ass cover mounted tribute CD to accompany their new June 2010 issue and invited MY RUIN to be a part of the high-voltage party by covering one of our favorite AC/DC songs of all time, 'Have A Drink On Me'.

"We have always been big fans of AC/DC since we were very young, they were a part of the soundtrack to our lives growing up and we're both honored to be a part of the tribute CD because for us AC/DC represent rock and roll in its purest form.

"MY RUIN has done covers over the years, ranging from BLACK FLAG to NICK CAVE to RICK DERRINGER, but this was definitely the most fun we have had recording someone else's song and we even managed to capture our day on film in a video see below] for you to check out so that made it even more special.

"We recorded and mixed our tribute track at Entourage Studios in North Hollywood, California where we spent a few months recording our new album and we had a great time."

MY RUIN's sixth full-length studio album, "Ghosts And Good Stories", will be released on August 21 via Tiefdruck-Musik.

Tairrie B recently stated about "Ghosts And Good Stories", "We went about making this album in a different way. We decided not to rush things but rather take our time and enjoy ourselves. Not only did Mick write the music and play all the instruments on the new album but he also co-produced and mixed it with longtime friend Josh Lynch at Entourage Studios in North Hollywood and Weapons of Mass Productions in Santa Monica, California.

"Our recording sessions were very organic and was nice to have the freedom to create and produce the album we wanted to make with no heavy-handed pressure or deadlines from the label but instead lots of support. Tiefdruck Musik owner Daniel Heerdman really loves and understands our music and band as does everyone at the label which is something we have not felt from a label in a long time and it's a welcome surprise.

"While I was creating the album artwork, I wanted the feeling to be otherworldly and dark, unlike anything we have done in the past and to set the mood for the music, which I think it does.

"The new cover art is actually a vintage portrait from my family album. It is a photo of my great grandparents in front of their home taken sometime in the early 1900s which has been slightly altered.

"I came across the image last year as we were recording our new album and it just sort of spoke to me in a very haunting way. I was drawn to it over and over again while coming up with the album's title, which is taken from the lead track 'Diggin' for Ghosts'.

"The album starts off very doomy and ends with a slow, spoken-word dirge over a musical soundscape that ties it all in from beginning to end but the record as a whole is definitely very brutal and up tempo with lots of rock riffs and my trademark scream vocals."

When asked about the theme of the new album in a recent interview for Devolution magazine in the U.K., Tairrie said, "I would say that 'Ghosts and Good Stories' is definitely a concept album and one which is quite reflective and apocalyptic on many levels. It didn't necessarily start off that way but it eventually began to write itself into a bit of an intimate portrait of our life as a band in and around the city of Los Angeles.

"Over the years religious imagery has played a huge part in my lyrical content and I have often left things open to interpretation but with this record it has gone from being more of a cryptically metaphorical aesthetic to highly confrontational in some instances."