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Project Ruins is a unique and innovative project looking at recording solely through online music collaboration. The artists involved have never met, played or practiced with each other, but manage to produce and create music which stands at the forefront of modern metal music. Project Ruins showcase the possibilities of Internet music collaboration. The project essentially began around 2006 when musician David Beaumont decided to write a series of metal songs, with the aim of playing them in a full time touring band. Unfortunately, after taking on a Sound Engineering degree there were various time constraints and it was not possible to do this. An academic project was then drawn up to see how how advances in technology and software have allowed musicians to successfully record and collaborate from different locations. Responses to the idea were immediate with artists from 11 different countries in 5 different continents all expressing an interest in recording. Eventually, a group