For Ruin was formed in 2003 in Cork, Ireland. Founder John began playing a mixture of melodic black/death metal with strong harmonies, melodies and dynamics throughout. During 1998-2006, John recorded 3 demos (Split, Shade and Obsidian) and established an initial lineup of the band at the end of 2005, playing with Decapitated and many others at the time.

In November 2006 Murphy was joined by drummer Barry English, guitarist Drew Myers and bassist Barry OSullivan forming the second lineup of the band. The band filmed their performance at Winterfest 2006 in their home town of Cork on December 23rd '06. The result is the "Live at Winterfest" DVD, which was given a limited release in January 2007.

For Ruin announced the start of their relationship with Sentinel Records in January 07. The band finished their debut recording for Sentinel in May '07 titled "December" which was released on September 15th 2007 and supported by a headlining Irish tour during October 07. During August 07 the band returned to gigging, playing a warm-up show with Napalm Death before their tour in support of the album. In November '07 new bass player Peter Lawlor joined the band. FR played with Massacre and Extreme Noise Terror around this time and played main support to Primordial in December 07 & Jan 08. In Feb '08 the band welcomed back original drummer Steve O'Connell and having spent a few months rehearsing with Steve, the band played London for the first time; at the Camden Underworld in May 08 with Skyforger.

In Jan 09 the band recorded their second album - it was recorded in Mallow, Cork, Ireland with Alwyn Walker of Komodo Studios as the on-location producer. The album is currently being mixed. The band plays with Paradise Lost and Rotting Christ in Belfast on April 25th 2009. The new album should hopefully be out around this time under licence to Sentinel Records. 

Here are some tracks from different bands I have recorded with . A very random mix of genres :-) Two of the tracks "Polar Bear" and "Toma" are from recordings I had the pleasure of doing with Maynard James Keenan and Joshua Eustis for their band Puscifer in America some time back and have just been released recently. There is 1 rough mix track "Reason" which is from one of my own original projects Hail to Farewell and then there are 2 other tracks "Come On" and "Crushing" that I sessioned on bass for Dublin band Preachers Son. Many more to come :-)

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