Ruined by Andradite doesn’t announce itself with gimmicks or genre posturing. It just gets on with the job of being confrontational, physical, and unsettling. Five tracks in length, it’s an EP that understands exactly how much time it needs to make its point — and refuses to waste a second of it.
Although tagged as Industrial Metalcore, that label only tells part of the story. Yes, there are mechanical undercurrents here: cold textures humming beneath the riffs, electronic pulses that feel less like decoration and more like internal organs keeping the songs alive. But Ruined is overwhelmingly Metal at its core. Thick, punishing guitars dominate the sound, grinding forward with a sense of weight that feels bodily rather than abstract. This is music that presses against you, not music that floats around you.
What separates Andradite from a hundred other heavy bands flirting with industrial elements is intent. Nothing here feels thrown in for atmosphere alone. The harsher textures serve the songs, sharpening them, corroding their edges, making them feel unstable in the best possible way. When the electronics creep in, they don’t soften the impact — they heighten the sense that something is wrong, that the ground beneath the riffs is shifting even as they pummel forward.
The songwriting is deceptively fluid. These tracks move with an almost dreamlike logic, sliding between moments of suffocating density and sudden space. Each shift feels deliberate, like the band knows exactly when to let a section breathe and when to choke the life back out of it. The result is music that feels constantly in motion, never settling, never allowing you to get comfortable.
And then there’s Coco.
Calling her “the vocalist” almost undersells her role on Ruined. She feels less like a frontperson and more like the emotional epicentre the whole EP rotates around. Her performance is confrontational, exposed, and wildly dynamic. One moment she’s dragging her voice through something raw and damaged, the next she’s unleashing a force that feels barely contained. There’s no sense of her performing for the listener — it feels like you’ve stumbled into something private and volatile, and you’re catching the fallout in real time.
What’s most impressive is how naturally she navigates these extremes. The transitions don’t feel theatrical or forced. They feel instinctive, as if the songs demand that range and she simply follows where they lead. It gives Ruined a sense of emotional depth that a lot of heavy releases chase but rarely achieve.
For an EP, Ruined feels remarkably complete. It doesn’t come across as a teaser or a testing ground. It feels like a fully realised statement made in a concise format. Andradite clearly understand who they are and what they want this music to do.
Ruined isn’t trying to reinvent anything. It doesn’t need to. What it does instead is take familiar elements — metalcore heft, industrial unease, visceral vocals — and weld them together with conviction. The result is heavy music that feels purposeful, unsettling, and very much alive.
Ruined by Andradite is available now via Bleeding Nose Records.
CHOICE CUT: Dancing in the Dark
BLACK METAL ARCHIVES VERDICT: Short, savage, and unforgiving. Ruined hits hard, says its piece, and leaves damage behind. Andradite waste nothing — and Coco sounds absolutely lethal.
PRESS SOURCE: Cátia C./Against PR.
