MY RUIN To Make Next Album Available As Free Download

MY RUIN the Los Angeles-based band featuring the husband-and-wife rock duo of vocalist Tairrie B. Murphy and multi-instrumentalist Mick Murphy will make its seventh album, "A Southern Revelation", available for free download on December 7 exclusively via www.myruin.net.

Commented Tairrie: "Our secret is finally out and we are excited and proud to announce that we have a new album coming in December! Produced by Mick Murphy and Joel Stooksbury, 'A Southern Revelation' is the seventh full-length studio album by MY RUIN. It was recorded at Soundtrack Black Studio deep in the snowy mountains just outside of Knoxville, Tennessee in the cold January winter of 2011.

"As a thank you and gift to our longtime friends, fans and MY RUIN family worldwide, for your continued support and rock love for us, 'A Southern Revelation' will be made available as a 100% FREE DOWNLOAD digital only release on December 7th and just in time for Christmas exclusively via www.myruin.net in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire. The new album includes 10 tracks:

01. Tennessee Elegy
02. Highly Explosive
03. Walk of Shame
04. Deconsecrated
05. Middle Finger
06. Vultures
07. Seventh Sacrament
08. Reckoning
09. The Soulless Beast
10. Mean Street (VAN HALEN cover)

"In 2010 MY RUIN signed a two-album deal with [a German label] based on lengthy conversations with [the label's] owner and founder. We felt he understood our band and what we were looking to achieve with our new album. He was completely supportive and encouraging to us during the entire recording process.

"In July, MY RUIN delivered our sixth album, 'Ghosts And Good Stories', to [the label]. We were on a high after recording what would soon become our most critically acclaimed album to date and everything felt great. We had begun to confirm shows for a European tour and were looking forward to working with our new label when suddenly there was a strange and unexpected turn of events and [the label owner] changed from being our biggest supporter into our most vicious adversary overnight. We had no idea why or where this sudden shift in attitude had come from. We were now dealing with a completely different man and it was scary. This led to our being forced for the first time in our career to cancel our tour as chaos and confusion set in. Our album release was delayed in every territory and our once friendly mutual respectful relationship was now done.

"Instead of touring 'Ghosts And Good Stories' in September 2010 as planned, we found ourselves at home due to circumstances beyond our control.

"Before our album finally came out in September, we decided to cut all ties and contact with the label. With no promotion or support for 'Ghosts And Good Stories', we were left to fend for ourselves like an unsigned band. This was when Mona Miluski, who was [the label's] in-house publicist, started her own freelance press agency Platinum-PR, joined our team as a publicist and we began our DIY press campaign which proved to be a huge success as the album received some of the best reviews and press of our career.

"In the eye of the storm, Mick and I decided to vent our anger and frustration by writing our thoughts and putting them to music while home in Los Angeles. Within two months we had enough material to record another album. Having already planned to spend the holidays in Mick's hometown of Knoxville, we decided to reach out to a friend and fellow musician Joel Stooksbury who had built his own home studio hidden away in the hills of Tennessee. Knowing our situation and without the luxury of a budget or financial backing of any kind, Joel expressed his interest in recording with us purely based on his wanting to help us make a rad rock record. Soon we found ourselves at Soundtrack Black Studio for three very cold and snowy weeks quietly making what would become MY RUIN's seventh album, 'A Southern Revelation'. After all we had gone through leading up to the making of 'A Southern Revelation', it was an amazing and very calming experience to be out of our usual element in Los Angeles while recording and instead be in Tennessee surrounded by longtime friends and family while working with Joel. Not only did he and his lovely wife Mindy open their hearts and home to us but he proved to be an incredible co-producer/engineer/mixer and a loyal friend along the way.

"'Ghosts And Good Stories' was a great album and there was potential for both MY RUIN and [our former label] to build a real foundation together on this as a band and label had it been properly handled and promoted as agreed. Unfortunately, [the label owner] crossed the line with us on both a personal and business level from which there is no recovery. Recording another album for [the label] is not an option for us, so we have made the decision to do something out of the ordinary by following in the footsteps of a few disgruntled artists before us and give our new album, 'A Southern Revelation' away as a free download.

"In an age where the majority of fans download their music for free on torrent sites, all we ask is that this time you get it directly from us. This way you will get the best quality version possible.

"Both sacred and profane, 'A Southern Revelation' is MY RUIN's meanest and most pointed recording to date. It is a highly focused, intensely passionate and cathartic record that invites its listener with us on our personal journey of reckoning in retrospect. Staying true to our sound and confrontational lyrical delivery we believe 'A Southern Revelation' stands alone in MY RUIN's catalog with renewed razor-sharp, violent-scream vocals and spoken word over stone-cold-crisp-yet-doomy-metallic-rock guitar riffs.

"While friendship is a fashion and honesty is the holiest disease, this is our seven daggers of Meggido; this is our slaying of the beast."