In Ruins (ROM) - We Are All To Perish - review
In Ruins (ROM) - We Are All To Perish - review
Tracklist
01. I'm Tired Of Living In My Land02. I Do Not Regret, And I Do Not Shed Tears
03. We'll Depart This World For Ever, Surely
04. Farewell
A review by
AndyMetalFreak April 08, 2026
In Ruins is a doom metal band formed in Romania in 2021 by members of several esteemed Romanian black metal bands, including Argus Megere, Dordeduh, and Ordinul Negru. A year after their establishment, they released their debut EP Ruthless Portrait, which you may have encountered courtesy of our Clandestine Cuts series. It was here where the musicians involved decided to leave black metal behind and set about experimenting with funeral/death doom while delving into lyrics based on introspection and meditations on death instead. Now the band consisting of Urmuz (vocals/guitars/bass) and St. Oliver (drums) unveil their debut full-length album We Are All to Perish. They step deeper into classic funeral doom territory, where bands such as Evoken, Ahab, and Doom:VS mournfully dwell.
The album's theme focuses on the mortality and inevitability of death, with lyrics based on the work of Russian poet Serghei Yesenin. Four of his poems are specifically chosen as inspiration behind the theme, such as the final song "Farewell", which is a reference to the poet’s final act of writing, a poem written in his own blood. This also coincides with the morbid cover art that depicts Yesenin after his suicide. The album is a 40-minute densely atmospheric journey across four 10-minute songs that offer a range of intense emotions, from pain and despair to sorrow and desolation.
The compositions typically shift between crushing death doom and agonizingly slow funeral doom, with repetitive slogging riffs. The deep growls, although not out of character in the nature of this genre, are effective in the sense of how they hauntingly echo from beneath the instrumentation. "We’ll Depart This World For Ever" is a title just as harrowing as the music it represents, and the use of female vocals and spoken word breaks the mould from the monotonous growls. "Farewell" then uses monolithic chants and eerie church bells (that are something of a trademark feature in funeral doom) to create a grim and mournful atmosphere. Despite these few elements featured, there isn't anything to suggest reinvention of the wheel in any way, but that's not the point here. It has huge emotional weight and an unmatched mournful atmosphere, but getting a full grasp of this requires a lot of time and patience. What really helps in regard to this is the masterful production that's mixed to a professional standard, creating a raw and almost suffocatingly dense sound while also offering enough clarity for each element to work its way in.
Funeral doom has never been the easiest or most exhilarating subgenre to get into, especially if you're not in the right mood or environment at the time of listening. It's incredibly slow, repetitive, and can be quite tedious if I'm to be quite honest, but when it does finally hit you it really does hit, like a sledgehammer to the heart. It's one of the few styles in metal with the potential to turn even the most hardened listener into an emotional wreck. Musically We Are All to Perish hits all the right notes if you so wish for that to happen to you; take into account the lyrics and theme it's centered on and you have an album with the potential to push the faint-hearted listener over the edge if they're not ready for it.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 7 |
| Songwriting: | 7 |
| Originality: | 4 |
| Production: | 8 |
Written on 08.04.2026 by
Written on 08.04.2026 by
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Posts: 6672 Written by Stormm on 12.04.2026 at 10:27 Corrected. Thanks for pointing that out for me 
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Posts: 1825 Written by AndyMetalFreak on 12.04.2026 at 10:37 Ummm no. You were correct the first time. His name is sometimes spelled Esenin, but in English it’s officially Yesenin. Think it’s a russian vernacular thing. Dunno if they speak Russian in the Czech Republic, but I think J might be pronounced as a soft Y in Russian.
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Posts: 6672 Written by A Real Mönkey on 14.04.2026 at 20:14 Yep, I've looked into it and you're right. It could be spelled either Esenin or Yesenin. Either way, I've simply replaced the J with a Y
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Doing Radus job, first song has cool tittle.
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