The Ruins of Beverast

The Ruins of Beverast is a German extreme metal band from Aachen, North Rhine -Westphalia. It was founded in 2003 by Alexander Miles of forest, which is the only member of the band to this day.

Band History

After the dissolution of the band played Nagelfar, in the Alexander Miles forest drums, he and the former Nagelfar singer Zingultus ( Endstille, sleet ) had initially planned to second to start a new influenced by Black Metal project. For this purpose, the then practiced on the guitar not yet experienced of miles woods, own songs to compose. Although from the joint project ultimately nothing was doing some inspired by traditional Black Metal songs that burned from Meilenwald to a CD- R and under the title The Furious Waves of Damnation distributed to some friends without actually publish the songs as a demo created to want.

Then made ​​from Meilenwald from writing further material, which, in contrast to the crude character of The Furious Waves of Damnation burned more sophisticated and personal worked, and again only a blank CD under the title Unlock the Shrine to some friends of Miles Forest was distributed. One of these friends of miles Forest Nagelfar former colleague Sven " Weidmann Sveinn Hackelberg " Dinninghoff, owner of the record company Ván Records, finally urged him to publish the new songs on his label official.

After Miles Forest 2004 Dinninghoffs had given the insistence in the year, he began to write, which in addition to the still clearly recognizable black metal roots of miles Forest now was also strongly influenced by doom metal and ambient and again on new material finally in 2006 under the title Rain Upon the Impure, was re- published via Ván Records.

The 2009 released album of the band, Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite, which retains the doom and ambient influences of the previous album, is characterized by a slightly clearer sound than its predecessor, but the current style has been maintained and refined. Previously participated in two split releases of miles Forest in 2007: on the one hand with the song The Moselle Enigma ... Is a Tale About All That Frightens Man on a split release with the Dutch band Urfaust, published via Ván Records, on the other hand the song Desert Lair on the four-band split LP released God in us, via Obscure Abhorrence Productions (along with the bands Death Gate Arcanum, Nihil Nocturne and anti ).

On September 6, 2013, the new album Blood Vaults will appear a second time published on the label Ván Records.

Texts

The band's name is derived from the word Beberast, a synonym for Bifrost, the bridge, which in Old Norse mythology, the Earth realm, Midgard, the kingdom of heaven, Asgard, connects. However, the texts do not contain any themes from the Germanic paganism, but it will be mainly used references from the Bible - Old Testament symbolism with anti-Christian and misanthropic tendencies. Another recurring theme is the biblical end of the world; in the text of The Restless Mills Meilenwald describes the inevitable, in his view the end, which is brought about by mankind under the eyes of a sent by Yahweh Messiah. Other titles have a connection to the Middle Eastern mythologies, the lyrics of the song Theriak Baal Theriak describes the awakening of the demon Baal. Meilenwald chose to connect to the Oriental- European antiquity, since this is the " cradle" of today's society; the task was " to transfer their archaic dogmas and their cultural heritage metaphorically in modern times ."

Discography

Demo

• The Furious Waves of Damnation (2003)

Albums

• Unlock the Shrine ( Ván Records, 2004)
• Rain Upon The Impure ( Ván Records, 2006)
• Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite ( Ván Records, 2009)
• Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospel Of Heinrich Kramer ( crypts Sanguinum - Gospel flagrans Henrici Institoris ) ( Ván Records, 2013)

Split Publications

• Urfaust / The Ruins of Beverast ( split EP with Urfaust, Ván Records, 2007)
• God in us (split LP with Death Gate Arcanum, Nihil Nocturne and Anti, Obscure Abhorrence Productions, 2007)