AMG Review of Refusal Fossil [Bonus Tracks]

Jason Ankeny
All Music Guide

The first Ruins release to feature new bassist Sasaki Hishashi, a longtime vet of the Japanese grindcore scene, Refusal Fossil doesn't deviate at all from the pattern of previous releases -- this is music of extreme intensity, unforgiving bass-and-drum noise typified by stop-on-a-dime tempos and time signatures and lyrics sung in a language plainly not of this earth. [The 2007 Skin Graft reissue featured five bonus tracks.]