The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia (2017) – The tortuous journey of a lonely man

The Ruins of Beverast is an one-man army, this man responds by the name of Alexander von Meilenwald. "Exuvia" is the fifth album and spreads an atmospheric Black-Doom sound. There are six long songs that do not follow the rectilinear path of simplicity, they are robust, overloaded with feelings that emanate the apprehensions of the musician who created them.

The German Alexander von Meilenwald conceived a sound full of black metal ferocity, mounted under a powerful and unbalanced delusional-doom surface. Exuvia that opens the albums in its more than 15 minutes of duration transmits this imbalance with the opening in the primitive chants and evolves with an inexorable increase of brute force added to the omnipresent hypnotic echoing. What may bother the average listener is the lack of defined structure. Songs like Surtur Barbaar Maritime and Maere (On a Stillbirth's Tomb) do not have a rectilinear pattern, they vary in time, in vocal technique (sometimes guttural cavernous, sometimes hypnotic, sometimes roaring profound) and in progression. The changes of time mimic our mood swings, ranging from overwhelming aggression to conformed drone calm. The keyboard helps in that sense when it provides the touch of hallucination psychedelia. Whoever manages to immerse himself in the experience and survives the journey, the album closes with the final blow called Takitum Tootem (Trance). Initiating slowly and sinisterly, he tries to impose the retreat of the listener with terrifying vocals and his intonated rhythmic pulse, the air loaded with putrefaction accompanies the sound even in moments of pseudo-calmness.


"Exuvia" is a true tsunami with his destructive power wrecking everything with its musical vigor. Created in a tenebrous climate, it drowns the unfit who venture on the aberrant journey. Just dive in if you're willing; the full appreciation takes time, disposition and guts, something that not everyone has.

Trackist:
1.Exuvia 15:27
2.Surtur Barbaar Maritime 08:51
3.Mære (On a Stillbirth's Tomb) 11:22
4.The Pythia's Pale Wolves 14:34
5.Towards Malaki 09:39
6.Takitum Tootem! (Trance) 07:45

Last Conclusion:

 Marcelo Hissa