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Poison Ruin<\/a> have released the new song \u201cGuts (Lay Your Self Aside)\u201d as the final advance single from their upcoming album, Hymns from the Hills<\/em><\/a>, which arrives April 3rd.<\/p>\n The song is a marriage of early punk rock with heavy metal melodicism, striking a balance similar to the early years of Iron Maiden.<\/p>\n Get Poison Ruin Tickets Here<\/a><\/p>\n The lo-fi verses and choruses have a direct punk rock energy to them cut against melodic metal guitar driven breaks with a bridge that sits somewhere between the space rock of Hawkwind and the more abstract interludes with spoken word passages that Iron Maiden would begin incorporating in the Bruce Dickinson years.<\/p>\n Related Video<\/p>\n The difference between this new single and previous singles \u201cEidolon\u201d<\/a> and \u201cHymn from the Hills\u201d<\/a> showcase a band that is maximizing the space and range of a consciously limited palette. It manages to execute both the creativity under constraint of punk with the expansive creativity of fantasy without sacrificing the key elements of either.<\/p>\n Poison Ruin will kick off a North American tour<\/a> on April 11th in New York City, with tickets available here<\/a>. Check out the lyric video for \u201cGuts (Lay Your Self Aside)\u201d below.<\/p>\n