{"id":32888,"date":"2023-02-28T14:14:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T20:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/?p=32888"},"modified":"2023-02-26T15:45:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T21:45:57","slug":"32888-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/32888-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. -->\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>&nbsp;Release Date: February 14, 2023<strong>FFO: Darkest Hour, In Flames, At The Gates<\/strong>Location: Fairfax, Virginia&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Short Bio: Age of Ruin is an American metalcore band from the Washington DC suburb of Fairfax, Virginia. The group formed in 1998, releasing a demo in 1999 titled &#8220;The Opium Dead.&#8221; Their first album, &#8220;Black Sands Of The Hourglass&#8221; was self-released in 2000 and re-released in 2004 with two bonus tracks on Tribunal Records. In 2002 the group released an EP entitled &#8220;Autumn Lanterns&#8221; for Tribunal Records.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Age of Ruin released &#8220;The Tides of Tragedy&#8221; via Eulogy Records in the spring of 2004, touring across the United States on Van&#8217;s Warped Tour 2004. Subsequent tours with bands such as Shadows Fall, Darkest Hour, The Bled, Sworn Enemy, Good Clean Fun and Anterrabae continued to cause an already strong following to grow. In Winter 2006, Age of Ruin kicked off the year with their first European tour, a 25-day tour crossing 12 countries. Sharing the stage with other mainstream acts such as The Black Dahlia Murder, Bleeding Through, and Most Precious Blood.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In 2008, the original lineup of Age of Ruin minus Patrick Owens (who was replaced by Aaron Sirott on drums) recorded and released &#8220;One Thousand Needles&#8221; on Eulogy Records.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In 2019, the original lineup of Age of Ruin got back together and began working on &#8220;Thieves.&#8221; In 2020-2021, the band brought in Brian Gant (vocals) and Jonathan Clay (guitars), both from the band Absolute Vengeance to record the EP at the Riff Dojo Studio with Mike Schleibaum of Darkest Hour and Be Well.<strong>Follow the band on Spotify and add them to your playlists!<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/5OlOc49L0IERvwqbuRost8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/5OlOc49L0IERvwqbuRost8<\/a><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001konzIw-A3atqvT1xhGdBoClJKVS56HxgnIhbQZ4BFN_heJxKdogYEzzAE8W6jSXiWm9uMIMZup9hM7hOVnYZlTg36pRYeD0ykQkTkhr-tg3PbALvCfo6bniM2Gg8sSNxqIg3qRHKWLK1ZVBeeOdINKn0owxvpW5z0BKksBKtJ_lciZQbRQM7ub6e45DJdJ5oQr0uI7C9DfIS4_UkjKgkLtUUKnAbfS7ZODzTDI7T4odJQfAnU34nBcT6ttbRDUdKHH0Cz5YUmQDWlJ74yeMkkHAyS25Rsvc-G-sm3WnkCEcSYzn-hw4HDNg0bS8ok6NT4SziwexJeUX7xofUT0vnxA==&amp;c=o8T-9MB9b48Tgn7GN1vKtpVSCIt_NQ-eSTBkgGl5cm-I8wjXrw93HQ==&amp;ch=kiKwHxLrnrYMJk8LoX2HsU5-AUR2y1WCTIDe5B9jk9084-7EETBsQw==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001konzIw-A3atqvT1xhGdBoClJKVS56HxgnIhbQZ4BFN_heJxKdogYEzzAE8W6jSXiWm9uMIMZup9hM7hOVnYZlTg36pRYeD0ykQkTkhr-tg3PbALvCfo6bniM2Gg8sSNxqIg3qRHKWLK1ZVBeeOdINKn0owxvpW5z0BKksBKtJ_lciZQbRQM7ub6e45DJdJ5oQr0uI7C9DfIS4_UkjKgkLtUUKnAbfS7ZODzTDI7T4odJQfAnU34nBcT6ttbRDUdKHH0Cz5YUmQDWlJ74yeMkkHAyS25Rsvc-G-sm3WnkCEcSYzn-hw4HDNg0bS8ok6NT4SziwexJeUX7xofUT0vnxA==&amp;c=o8T-9MB9b48Tgn7GN1vKtpVSCIt_NQ-eSTBkgGl5cm-I8wjXrw93HQ==&amp;ch=kiKwHxLrnrYMJk8LoX2HsU5-AUR2y1WCTIDe5B9jk9084-7EETBsQw==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>&nbsp;Age of Ruin is:<\/strong>Brian Gant &#8211; VocalsDaniel Fleming &#8211; GuitarsJonathan Clay &#8211; GuitarsChristopher Fleming &#8211; BassHendrik Osinga &#8211; DrumsThieves was recorded 2020-2021 at the Riff DojoProduced by Mike SchleibaumDrums on tracks 2-7 performed by Patrick OwensAdditional vocals on track 5 performed by Caitlin SchneidermanAll songs written by Age of Ruin<strong>Follow the band at these links:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thisistheageofruin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thisistheageofruin\/<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thisistheageofruin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thisistheageofruin\/<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/5OlOc49L0IERvwqbuRost8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/5OlOc49L0IERvwqbuRost8<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCPbz1Uy1jrz9LmyjnF05k-g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCPbz1Uy1jrz9LmyjnF05k-g<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/artist\/age-of-ruin\/6186899\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/artist\/age-of-ruin\/6186899<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ageofruin.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ageofruin.bandcamp.com\/<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Age of ruin with Jiggy Jaguar 2262023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_26511\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lfeOs0NaNL4?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; 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