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About Me

RUIN MAGAZINE has been covering the extreme to mainstream metal scene since 2006 in a bi-monthly publication. The best part is that RUIN is FREE and widely available across the entire nation! We here at RUIN like our music heavy and loud. That is exactly why we decided to push the envelope and deliver a metal magazine that offers more to you, the metal fan. In each issue expect in depth interviews with today's metal warriors, a TON of CD Reviews, short stories, DVD and Video Game reviews, and a slew of exclusive photos of your favorite bands. Please contact us about new bands and what you think about heavy music in general. Also, we are always open to suggestions. We would love to hear for every single one of you crazy people. One last note: Trust me when I say that we ARE the future of metal magazines.
Our Second Issue Features....
Eighteen Visions, TOOL, KoRn, Mastodon, Underoath, Slayer, System of a Down, Dragonforce, Shadows Fall, Unearth, Opiate for the Masses, DJ Starscream, Mnemic, Strapping Young Lad
Also Featured....
Full Blown Chaos, Deicide, The LostProphets, Mushroomhead, Powerman 5000, Bullet for My Valentine, Goatwhore, All That Remains, Dry Kill Logic, The Chelsea Smiles, Walls of Jericho, From a Second Story Window, Gojira, Threat Signal, Warface, Dirty Rig, Poisonblack, Black Stone Cherry, Glass Casket
However, Issue Three is going smoke all of our previous mags! Stay tuned.....
For now, go out and get Ruin Issue Two at:
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My Interests

Anything with the words HEAVY, METAL, CORE, ROCK and ROLL. I think any combinations of those words pretty accurately describes our interests. Feel free to add THRASH, GRIND, POWER or any other word that sounds loud and/or dirty. We also tend to enjoy movies, food, video games, books, short stories and walks on the beach at sunset.

I'd like to meet:

Metal Heads, people who like LOUD music, freaks, preps, your mom, Rock and Rollers of all shapes and sizes, big plates of nachos. You.

This Myspace page is brought to you by the letters F, U, C and Melissa . Feel free to drop her a line. She doesn't bite.....hard. Just be careful with the "you suck" comments. She tends to challenge people to duels. No one has survived.

Music:

We are not going to list a million bands here. RUIN Magazine does not want to single anyone out. It's kind of like a bad Oscar acceptance speach....someone always ends up getting left out. We support all heavy music. That includes everything from fancy overproduced metal acts to the kids jamming out on Peavy amps in their parents basement. We think you all rule. Also, many of the staff here tend to listen to some pretty wussy shit from time to time. With that said we predict that NSync will make the comeback of the century. Seriously. Just wait. It's gonna happen. I promise.

Movies:

Anything is worth watching at least once. Hell, RUIN RICK owns all the Olsen twin movies on VHS. He's so metal.

Television:

FUSE
Headbangers Ball
Much Music
Music Choice

Books:

RUIN MAGAZINE. That counts as a book, right? No? Well fuck you.

Heroes:

Our Staff:
Publisher: Insomniac Media
Editor In Chief: Rick Florino
Executive Editor: Andrew Gargano
Director of Development: Paul Gargano
Director of Promotions: Melissa Carmine
Director of Communications: Rika O'Connor
Associate Editor: Nicole Urso
Managing Editor: Amy Sciarretto
Associate Editor: Ryan Ogle
Chief Photographer: Kevin Estrada
Staff Writers: Scott Alisoglu, Blasko, Gus the Heavy Metal Hound, Tony Caso, Rob Canzano, Rachel Carmine, Jim Mayse
All fans of heavy music.
Nachos
Caffeine

My Blog

DOWN "III: Over the Under" Review - Record of the Year!

DOWN "III: Over the Under" GRADE: A+ To call Down's "III: Over the Under" the "best hard rock record of 2007" would be to sell it short. This album will last far beyond this year, and it's t...
Posted by Ruin Magazine on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:46:00 PST

DROID REVIEW

Our good buddies in Droid are dropping their self-titled Emotional Syphon Recordings debut next Tuesday so we figured we'd post Rick's Review...... Enjoy! Droid "Droid" (Emotional Syphon Recordings)...
Posted by Ruin Magazine on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:42:00 PST

DEVILDRIVER - REVIEW

Ok, so the new Ruin is out. Go get it now! More importantly, Devildriver have made their best album, and it's dropping on July 31, 2007. There's a kickass interview with Dez in the new Ruin prev...
Posted by Ruin Magazine on Mon, 21 May 2007 11:29:00 PST

DAUGHTERS OF MARA

Our good friends in Daughters of Mara are up in Canada right now recording their forthcoming debut, which is bound to change things this year!Check them out, add their songs to your page and delve int...
Posted by Ruin Magazine on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:03:00 PST

AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE

On April 3, 2007 our good friends in American Head Charge are going to release one of the most honest, insightful and moving music DVDs that I've ever seen! It's called "Can't Stop the Machine," and i...
Posted by Ruin Magazine on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:42:00 PST

Public Service Announcement

This is probably the only time I will ever abuse my power as a music "critic". Please note that critic is in notations. This means I am just another asshole with Microsoft Word that thinks I know what...
Posted by Ruin Magazine on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:43:00 PST

Attention Bass Players....

Our friends in Daughters of Mara are currently seeking a bassist. The band's sound blends a polyrhythmic, jagged guitar crunch a la Meshuggah with entrancing and often unsettling melodies remine...
Posted by Ruin Magazine on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:43:00 PST

LIVE REVIEW

I usually leave it to Melissa to post blogs, but this show was so good, I had to write about it. So here's my review.... -Rickie DEFTONES - AVALON NOV 10, 2006 Triumph was in the air the moment Defton...
Posted by Ruin Magazine on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:18:00 PST

Take your vintage shirt and shove it

There is one main reason why I decided to be a writer.....people are retarded. The human race never ceases to amaze me. Today while shamelessly promoting the magazine I came across yet another survivo...
Posted by Ruin Magazine on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:09:00 PST

I'm out of control.....

Ugh. It's Monday and I still have yet to recover from infinite amount of beer and whisky I downed Saturday night at the Autumn Offering/Brand New Sin/Soil/Mushroomhead show. And to top off my continue...
Posted by Ruin Magazine on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:17:00 PST