This World Is Going to Ruin You
This World Is Going to Ruin You is the second studio album by American metalcore band Vein.fm, which was released on March 4, 2022, through Closed Casket Activities and Nuclear Blast. It was recorded in April 2020, shortly after the start of the COVID-19 lockdowns. The album was produced in the Graphic Nature Audio studio by Will Putney of Fit for an Autopsy.
Release
The band released the lead single from the album, "The Killing Womb", on January 5, 2022, and announced that the album would be released later on March 4, 2022. On January 25, 2022, the band released the second single "Fear in Non Fiction". The album's final single, "Wavery" was released on February 15, 2022.Reception
The album has received generally positive reviews, with Kerrang! calling it "a startlingly ambitious piece of work from a truly iconoclastic band." Vocalist Anthony DiDio said of the album, "This record is Vein.fm coming home."Musical style
Gabe La Torre of No Echo said that the album was thrilling in its unpredictability, while Jack Terry of Distorted Sound Magazine called the album "the aural equivalent of a psychological slasher horror", and also compares some aspects of the album to Slipknot, thanks to the turntables done by Benno Levine.Personnel
Vein.fm- Anthony DiDio – vocals
- Matt Wood – drums
- Jeremy Martin – guitar, vocals
- Jon Lhaubouet – bass
- Benno Levine – turntables
- Will Putney – production, engineering, mixing, mastering
- Elmo O'Connor – guest vocals on "Orgy in the Morgue"
- Autumn Morgan – artwork
- Geoff Rickly – guest vocals on "Fear in Non Fiction"
- Steve Said – engineer
- Jeff Smith – guest vocals on "Hellnight"
- Randy LeBoeuf – piano