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."