| Life Among the Ruins | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Virgin Steele |
| Cover: | Virgin Steele life among the ruins.jpg |
| Released: | 1993 |
| Studio: | Total Recall, Baldwin, Nassau County, New York Studio Works, Island Park, New York 2econd City, Glen Cove, New York BearTracks Studios, Suffern, New York |
| Genre: | Hard rock |
| Length: | 59:28 |
| Label: | Shark Records |
| Producer: | David DeFeis, Ed Pursino, Chris Bubacz, Virgin Steele |
| Prev Title: | Age of Consent |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part I |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
Life Among the Ruins is the fifth full-length studio album by US heavy metal band Virgin Steele. It was released in 1993, after almost five years of inactivity. The song "Snakeskin Voodoo Man" was present only in the American release and was instead released as a single in 1992 in Europe, at the same time of the VHS Tale of the Snakeskin Voodoo Man. The VHS featured videos for "Snakeskin Voodoo Man", "Love Is Pain", "Invitation-I Dress in Black" and "Cage of Angels-Never Believed in Good-Bye", interviews and backstage footage.[1] The music of this album is bluesy hard rock and melodic metal, more similar to early Whitesnake's recordings than the epic power metal of albums like Noble Savage and the following The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part I.[2] This is the first album with bassist Rob DeMartino, who replaced Joe O'Reilly, retired from the scene.
All lyrics by David DeFeis, music as indicated