"its as if ed banger grew a pair... So why dont you and...
Go get... GIANTS FROM FAR AWAY by ALTER DER RUINE! It's guaranteed to add inches to your dick/firmness to yer tits and pack a punch as well.

Oh yeah.....

FTW!!"

This comes from Shane Talada, the sweetness behind Marching Dynamics and one of my personal favorite bands The Operative. Shane says,

First off a few reviews.

Side-Line

Reflections of Darkness

Conexxion Bizarre

amodelofcontrol

Darktwincities.com

Sphere Magazine

Theyfell

Radio-Active-Music

Gothtronic

Heathen Harvest

Moving Hands Music Magazine

Also here is are recent interviews with Theyfell.com and amodelofcontrol . Lastly a few quick comments about the album:

UberMan from the band UberByte:
"Alter der Ruine- Giants from Far Away. This ones gonna be huge. Its not a reinvention precisely so much as a kind of rocket propelled journey into some einstein-rosenberg wormhole which warps and distorts reality. Probably featuring a customised DeLaurean. Or something. It hurts my head to try and describe it. It deserves its own show on Discovery Knowledge. Frigging amazing."

Rev Dj Razorslave had this to say about the album, which was his number 1 choice for 2008!

"Possibly the greatest and most refreshing release in the "Rhythmic/Powernoise" Genre to date. The boys from ADR continue to show order of magnitude improvements in levels of greatness between albums. Complex melodies with distorted beats and the best sense of humor in the scene. Did not leave my CD player in my car for close to 4 months."

DJ 5arah: "-it gave me a raging girl-hard on. Seriously, I want to make all kinds of mad love to it. I want to caress it with my skilled agile tongue and....and...this is why I don't write album reviews! ... I should also add that listening to this is like receiving bukakke from a herd of centaurs."

Christopher Roddy @ darktwincities after putting us in the top 10 for 2008. "-it’s a safe bet that in the near future they will go from having a number of influences to being an influential force in the minds of fledgling musicians the world over."

Miguel de Sousa (from Connexion Bizarre)

"Dear Alter Der Ruine,
Thank you. For a few weeks now I now have a strange craving of getting plastered drunk, picking up my car and driving down the highway at top speed at weird hours and finishing off in a strip joint in the middle of nowhere. "Giants From Far Away" is bad for me.

Yours truly,
M."

So I sent out a bunch of emails concerning review queries. A few minutes ago this one pops up in the in
box:

"
Hello Mike,

here is "----" from the "contacted webzine". I am not interested in reviewing stupid dance music for stupid gothics! The bands you have on your profil (SAM, X-Fusion, Xotox) are all shit for me! And your music is the same bad way! I am only interested in old school EBM, old school industrial, extrem
breakcore, drones, dark ambient, neofolk, darf folk and more.

Please send me no promotional copy - Thanx!

Cheers

FUCK your bad Techno Shit!"


Needless to say we found this funny enough to share with all of you.

time (if you are unfamiliar listen to it in the myspace player). If
anyone out there wants to rip this song a new one we highly encourage
you to do so. If you think it needs vocals or guitar, make it happen, we
like remixes that don't sound exactly like the original.

Just download the file, mess it up and send it
back. We have a few high profile acts that have already done so and
we're looking to put a few more remixes on what will be a really groovy
single.

So, here are the steps.

1. Download the file from our homepage: http://www.ruine-process.com

2. Take it out for dinner and a movie, then go home and have nice
consensual remix. (sorry about the grammar, it just sounded funnier
that way.)

3. Send it back to us either at our myspace or email it to:

Not sure what that headline means. It'll probably be a song title at some point. What I do know is that the new ADR album is underway. So far we have three new songs and they are really really sweet. If candy were songs, you'd have a cavity from listening to these. Mosquitoes like them because my Mom said they're so sweet. You get it. It's not even funny, I didn't even chuckle writing it and this disclaimer is doing nothing to redeem anything just said.

But from the select few ears who have heard them we've been told they are the best works to date. The new album continues to move in the direction of Giants From Far Away, being that it is hard and groovy while retaining casual nods to other scenes. This time around we're adding vocals too. Love it or hate it they will be there, with robot bells on. Not funny again.

From our standpoint it looks like it will be an ultimate companion to Giants in that it is almost a continuation of that exploration. So if you're curious, cue up our player and take a listen, and if you're really interested please go to Crunch Pod and grab a copy (there are only 5 left right now)... We promise you'll enjoy it, and if you don't we'll go on some wacky adventure together where in the end you're kind of creeped out and exhausted and it seems like you've been awake for 4 days straight and you wonder how you got there and if it actually happened, then you go to sleep and wake up and see the CD next to you and you know it wasn't a dream so much as a fun fueled tangent spun with poisonous spider silk that laced you to a dream state unlike anything you ever wanted to imagine.

TRUTH.

SHUT UP.

DONE.

thanks, Mike T-

We have a few items left over from our recent tour with Nachtmahr. These are all tour only items except for the CDs of course. We have all three shirt designs in sizes SMALL through XXL.

All shirts are $15.00 + S&H. Also we offer a bundle of any shirt, with either the Giants From Far Away CD or the State of Ruin CD for just $20.00 + S&H. CD's are available too if interested. All transactions are made through Paypal.

For inquiries please write us: contact@ruine-process.com

Sorry for the picture quality, I'm working on getting better pictures at the moment.





This is the original building design and it comes on a green lightweight American Apparel shirt. These have been very popular and we only run them in small quantities so get one now if you're interested.



This is the centaur design that supports our new album. It is equal parts amazing and dorky and also proved to be pretty popular on the road.



And of course, our confusing Abe Lincoln "Regulatin'" design. It must be said that this artwork will tie in directly with something we will have coming out in the future. That way it's a little less random once that little number is released.It was also visible in our backing video this time around.



Also you can purchase Alter Der Ruine music at any of these fine places.
Amazon.com
Metropolis Records
Crunch Pod
MusicNonStop
Isotank
CD Baby
Glowroom Records
VampireFreaks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYFgfZIRqPk

I just added it. You can see some of what our live sets look like these days.

Travel days. Austin, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky. Nov. 16 - Nov. 17.


We woke up late today because we could. On the agenda was driving for a long time and eating at places that didn't assault our insides. First up came food. Thomas wanted steak, I'm not too sure what Max wanted. We've learned Max is very into health and fitness, something the rest of us claim but seldom indulge in. After driving many miles we happened upon a restaurant that looked like something out of the show Kitchen Nightmares. so of course we went in.

We thought it was a steakhouse but it turned out to be a bar-b-que place instead. We weren't picky though and sauced up our stomachs to prepare for the journey. Max delivered a pleasant round of massages to the ADR gang and which was witnessed by a table of older Texas women who called him over to deliver the goods to them too. Max being the professional he is obliged and rubbed down the old ladies with a smile only a genuinely polite man from Italy who is visiting a foreign country and dining at a restaurant he doesn't want to eat at can muster.

Once on the road Thomas jammed our speakers with the newest Scooter album which is so awesome that it pretty much stayed in the entire nine hours we drove.

Dinner came very late in the night at a place reserved for hallowed souls. Hooters in Texarkana isn't the most happening arena for consuming, but for an Austrian, an Italian and four guys from Arizona it was a requisite stop and proved to be an enjoyable one.

Boneless buffalo wings were introduced to the foreign palate and were kindly welcomed. We talked in length about differences between our cultures and were happy to agree that whereever you're from, Hooters in funny for many reasons.

A few hours later we were somewhere in Kentucky. The hotel we slept in wasn't the most memorable but it did provide great groud for the portable snore factory that we make up. We only had a few hours to sleep before we had to leave again. Before rest came there was a slight humorous dispute in our room between John, Mike J. Jacob and myself over whether the room smelled like poop before or after Mike J. went to the bathroom. The argument was quashed with a match, which soon led to another argument over whether the spent match smell was better or worse than the previous. We can carry on for a long time but at this hour we preferred to laugh it down the chuckle hole and go to sleep.

Austin, Texas - Nov. 15 2008

This morning started early when John arose two hours before the rest of us. I briefly glanced him walking out the door but was too tired to want to understand where he was going. Two hours later he returned...

Nothing ominous happened, it just seemed better to write it that way. He was kind enough to not want to wake us so instead he hunkered down in the van and organized all of the merchandise. The temperature was pretty cold too so the fact John braved the conditions to make sure our shirts were folded and stickers aranged just so made him all the more important to us on this trip. He also burned his image into the minds of the rest of the ADR clan this morning when he disobed to take a shower. I've known John for a while now and his nonchalant nude fits were nothing new to me so when everyone else turned giggly it reminded me that he was pretty much a stranger to them up to this point. Luckily everyone gets along great and we've been having a blast driving around.

We got on the road pretty early to drop Tamara off at the airport. She was only with us for this date. Soon it was MANTOWN in the van and we were speeding towards Austin. CDs were purchased and subsequently burned to provide road music. So far we have Thomas' Party Mix Vol. 1 as well as an Americana compilation I threw together. We figured it appropriate to have electro and country music on hand whilst whisking through Texas. The reasons for this are unknown but seem to quietly make sense.

Somewhere along the trek we stopped at a really rundown restaurant for Mexican food. The building looked as if it had been trying to kill itself for the last few decades, fortunately it was unsuccessful and allowed us to jam our guts with burritos and tamales. The restaurant was also connected to a gift shop that was set up more like a yard sale than anything else. If I wasn't on tour and hit this place my girlfriend would hate me because there was so much awesome random garbage that I would've purchased just for decorative spite. There were framed pencil drawings of cows and painted tins for products I'm sure didn't exist for too long because either the product was awful or the advertising was amazingly racist. We were all fascinated by the shop but had to get back on the road.

Texas is under a lot of construction at the moment and by the time we hit Austin it was pretty late. We were supposed to go on at 10:00 but wound up sound checking around that time instead. The sound guy Mikey was awesome and worked a lot of magic at the board that night. We actually had a backstage this night which was a nice change of pace. There was a nice spread of food too, most of which I consumed after we were done playing.

Our set went over pretty well this night and we played to a rather nice sized crowd on top of that. The Elysium is a great place to play, between the staff, patrons and setup it really is hard to not have fun there. At the same time I'm not a fan of urinal troughs. It takes a lot of courage for me to use one and I found myself summoning a lot of bravery this particular night.

The rest of the time was spent hanging at the merch booth with John and chatting up fans and attendees. It was also nice to actually meet people we've been talking to online. The Promoter John was another awesome person we finally met. He took care of us above and beyon what we were expecting. Our hotel rooms were fantastic this night.

We settled in for the night and prepared for our trek to Kentucky over the next two days. I took the time to try and get our backing video in order. The video is very ridiculous, obviously. I hope to have it done soon but being away from a desktop computer makes it very hard to complete this task. After about two hours it dawned on me that I was very tired and was editing in such a fashion that declared sleep was probably a better activity to be doing. I was making strobing title cards that flashed Lorenzo Lamas' name. That was the straw that broke the camel's back and so it was eyes were closed and rest was had.

El Paso - 77 Lounge - Nov. 14th, 2008

Technically this is the second date of our tour. Phoenix was the first but that show was such a huge load of stress that recounting it does my head no good. It went over decently to say the least. Spetsnaz and Obscenity Trial were very nice and gave us some very nice compliments on our live set. Also we met up with Thomas and Max, our future touring buddies and immediatly we knew it would be a good time. There's something really exciting about playing with foreigners, everything boring to us is amusing to them which in turn generates enthusiasm in us as too. Needless to say the U.S. diet is pretty gross when examined closely.

Anyhow, After about 4 hours of sleep all traveling members of this tour (Thomas, Max, Jacob, John our merch guy, Mike, J, Mike T. and Tamara (DJ Plastic Disease) convened at the Jenney household to get our bearings. We'd planned on leaving around 11:30 - 12:00 to put us in El Paso around 5:00 that afternoon. Unfortunately the Gods of convince weren't present to speak with us, instead they'd decided to let us converse with their asses as they dumped shit on us all morning and into the later afternoon.

This day was particularly stressful due to lack of sleep and lack of things working in our favor. Fortunately the sun burned through the ass clouds and allowed us to get on the road around 4:30. We made a brief stop at Jack in the Box to aclimate our stomachs to the type of fine cuisine we'd be eating / forcing ourselves to eat over the next few weeks.

After a few hours we arrived in El Paso and met up with the promoter Mo. Having worked with her before we were very happy to be back in town. We were pretty rushed and scrambled to move all the gear and merch inside. Setup went pretty quick, the merch took some sorting out, John hadn't figured out his system yet so order was still being searched for.

Tamara DJed for a bit then we went on around 10:30 or so. We had some kins to work out but all in all it was a pretty good show. The people there were awesome and danced and yelled when I "Woooooed" at them. For some reason I'm doing that a lot this time around. The day people don't whoop back at me is the day I will stop. Also we introduced the cowbell to the live show. We did it in Phoenix first but again I choose not to discuss that evening at present.

The cowbell goes over very well. It's actually quite amusing to see just how enraptured people get when they see and hear a ridiculous cowbell performance. During Relax and Ride It I handed it off to an audience member who wailed on it in an awesome manner until Thomas who must have been very inspired, called for it and helped us finish out our set with an amazing demonstration of just how fierce a Nachtmahr cowbell solo can be.

I wasn't surprised to see my body didn't forget how to sweat. We really are a very diffeent looking electro band, especially towards the end of our shows. We all have mustaches and sweat a lot and represent just how masculine and "dude" a group in this scene can look. If that's good or bad I don't know. The crowds seem to like it and the compliments and sales reflect that we're doing something right.

Nachtmahr hit the stage next and blew the place up. They put on a very high energy set and got the crowd going bonkers. If I had to sing and play as much as Thomas does I know I'd puke during the set. And it wouldn't be oops puke, it would a full on gut revolt against physically moving around that much.

The night ended well and we retreated to a Village Inn for some late night victory eats, all of which translated into defeat eats later on. Soon we found ourselves at the hotel and extremely ready for sleep. At the check in counter Thomas drew a smiley face on my form.. Then when the clerk turned around he drew a penis. I quickly made it into a smug smiley face and managed to avert a funny and awkward moment at a hotel lobby at 4:00 AM.
Sleep came very quickly this night.