Age of Ruin


Age of Ruin is an American metalcore band from Fairfax, Virginia. The group formed in 1998 and released a demo album the following year. The band's first album was self-released in 2000. The band self-released a full length titled "Nothingman" in 2025.

History

Formed in 1998, the group released a demo in 1999 titled The Opium Dead and their first album, Black Sands Of The Hourglass 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 Autumn Lanterns for Tribunal Records.
After LP and EP releases on Tribunal Records and a number of substantial lineup changes, Age of Ruin released The Tides of Tragedy via Eulogy Records in the spring of 2004. The band drew large crowds across the United States on the Van's Warped Tour 2004, and the hype continued to build. 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.
In 2008, the original lineup of Age of Ruin minus Patrick Owens got back together and recorded and released "One Thousand Needles" on Eulogy Records.
In 2019, the original lineup of Age of Ruin got back together and began working on an EP. In 2020–2021, the band brought in Jonathan Clay from Absolute Vengeance. The group recorded the EP at the Riff Dojo Studio with Mike Schleibaum of Darkest Hour. A video for the track "Dying Days" was released in October 2021.
In 2025, Age of Ruin self-released a full-length titled "Nothingman," along with videos for the tracks "The Ghosts We Carry," "Promise Me," "The Traveler," and "Heavy is the Crown." Mike Schleibaum was once again enlisted to produce the record, which was mixed by Will Beasley of the Bakery Studios in Richmond, VA.

Lineup

  • Daniel "Ruin" Fleming - guitar
  • Christopher Fleming - bass guitar
  • Benjamin Swan - vocals
  • Hendrik Osinga - drums
  • Casey Flanagan - guitar

    Former members

  • Derrick Kozerka - vocals
  • Patrick Owens - drums
  • Brian Kerley - guitars
  • Joseph Scheibel - bass
  • Colin Kercz - drums
  • David Haik - drums
  • Ryan Haik - guitars
  • Joel Hansen - guitar
  • Aaron Sirott - drums
  • Brian Gant - vocals
  • Jonathan Clay - guitars

    Discography

Albums and EPs

The Opium Dead
  • 1. Terror
  • 2. Blacksunrise
  • 3. Scattered Ashes
  • 4. Torn Out Wings
Black Sands Of The Hourglass
  • 1. Footsteps In The Catacombs Of Yesterday
  • 2. The Crimson Fails Forever
  • 3. Shadows Cast In Candlelight
  • 4. Terror
  • 5. Cracks In The Mirror
  • 6. Blacksunrise
  • 7. Angel Dusted Dreamlock
  • 8. Withered Rose
  • 9. Echos In Stained Glass
Autumn Lanterns
  • 1. Tainted Ghost Catharsis
  • 2. No Kiss Cuts as Deep
  • 3. Hung Upon the Weakest Branch
  • 4. Glowing Embers
  • 5. Water to Wine, Blood to Ink
Longest Winters Woes
  • 1. The Harlequin's Kiss
  • 2. The Silver Tongues
  • 3. Dimmer
  • 4. Passage of the Winter's Woes
  • 5. The Crimson Fails Forever
  • 6. Bleed For Better Days
Black Sands of the Hourglass
  • 1. Footsteps In the Catacombs of Yesterday
  • 2. The Crimson Fails Forever
  • 3. Shadows Cast In Candlelight
  • 4. Terror
  • 5. Cracks In the Mirror
  • 6. Blacksunrise
  • 7. Angel Dusted Dreamlock
  • 8. Withered Rose
  • 9. Echoes In Stained Glass
  • 10. The Icarus Syndrome
  • 11. You Give Love a Bad Name
The Tides Of Tragedy
  • 1. Dawn
  • 2. Yesterday's Ghost
  • 3. Truest Flame
  • 4. Elapse
  • 5. No Kiss Cuts As Deep
  • 6. Diaries Of The Dead
  • 7. Serengeti
  • 8. Bluest Eyes In Blackest Hearts
  • 9. Sirens Passage
  • 10. Glowing Embers
  • 11. Yours To Bury
  • 12. A Portrait Of Solemn Seas
Live Music Series: Beyond Warped
  • 1. Bluest Eyes in Blackest Hearts
  • 2. Yesterday's Ghost
  • 3. No Kiss Cuts As Deep
  • 4. Bleed For Better Days
  • 5. Truest Flame
Thieves
  • 1. Distance
  • 2. Dying Days
  • 3. And So, Betrayed
  • 4. Garden of Ghosts
  • 5. Thieves in Treason
  • 6. Withered Rose
  • 7. Echoes in Stained Glass
Nothingman
  • 1. The Fixation
  • 2. Heavy is the Crown
  • 3. Lost in Shadows
  • 4. The Traveler
  • 5. Nothingman
  • 6. An Awakening
  • 7. The Ghosts We Carry
  • 8. Promise Me
  • 9. Bleed for Better Days
  • 10. Lovesong