For Ruin - Painted In The Colours Of War (2026) - Out Now!

[Jward]

Fáilte Ireland would be proud of ya 

[Floss]

On Jan 9th we'll release another track "The Blood of Earth" from this, before the album comes out at the end of Jan....

[Floss]

New song!

https://forruin.bandcamp.com/track/the-blood-of-earth

[Eoin McLove]

Nice tune. It has the Greek style at its core but some of the key changes/ mood changes are reminiscent of Borknagar.

[Floss]

Cheers! Original post edited to show this link too....

[ResidentOfBok]

Liking the sound of that! I always enjoyed the vocals in For Ruin - reminds me a lot of Mikael Stanne from Dark Tranquility.

[Floss]

Thanks to Richie for the Podcast/interview - with a preview of each of the tracks form the new album (out next Friday!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP20eUkhTSA

[Floss]

Released today!

https://forruin.bandcamp.com/  for CD's and its also on Spotify now (& other services soon I guess).

Enjoy!

[Floss]

The full shebang:

[Thorn]

Listening to this last night, really good, kept thinking damn it's good to have old Dark Tranquility back, you nailed that old Gothenberg sound for sure,.will yous be firing some cds into Invictus?

[Floss]

Ya must look into getting a few copies to Darragh/Scobes at some point....

[Floss]

A few reviews coming in:

https://heavymetaltalks.blogspot.com/2026/02/for-ruin-painted-in-colours-of-war.html

https://www.overdrive.ie/for-ruin-return-from-the-shadows-with-long-awaited-fourth-album-painted-in-the-colours-of-war/