Inventor of Evil

Destruction | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 18, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Candlelight
• ASIN: B000AP2ZHQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,474 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Soul Collector

2. The Defiance Will Remain

3. The Alliance of Hellhoundz

4. No Mans Land

5. The Calm Before the Storm

6. The Chosen Ones

7. Dealer of Hostility

8. Under Surveillance

9. Seeds of Hate

10. Twist of Fate

11. Killing Machine

12. Memories of Nothingness

Editorial Reviews

Limited edition of the cult thrashers 2005 album produced by Peter Tagtgren (Hypocrisy, Pain). Includes the original 12 tracks, plus 2 bonus tracks (TBA) and is enhanced with 2 video clips all packaged in a digipak. AFM. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars , December 18, 2005

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Douglas Hernandez "varathron1" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inventor of Evil (Audio CD)

This is without a doubt their freshest release since their reunion album. The unmistakable Destruction trademark sound is all over the place, injecting the songs with a hard-to-resist groove while keeping the momentum heavy and raw. Tracks like "The Chosen Ones" and "Soul Collector" are instant headbanging classics, while the song "The Alliance of Hellhoundz" features guest vocalists from Hypocrisy, Dimmu Borgir, Death Angel and others. The tempo throughout the album is never lost. Moments of quietude last for merely a few seconds before they explode into razor-sharp anthems. There isn't much else to say here, the material at hand is straightforward but with a lot of passion and love towards Metal. This might sound clichéd but...prepared to be destroyed once again by Destruction!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it now!!!!!!!!!!!, January 26, 2006

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T. Goodwin (NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inventor of Evil (Audio CD)

killer a must have for fans off all metal!!!!!
here's one of 12 reasons to buy this album
track 3 - The Alliance of Hellhounds has 9 metal singers on it:
Biff Byford (SAXON)
Doro Pesch
Shagrath (DIMMU BORGIR)
Björn "Speed" Strid (SOILWORK)
Paul Di'Anno (ex-IRON MAIDEN, KILLERS)
Messiah Marcolin (CANDLEMASS)
Mark Osegueda (DEATH ANGEL)
Peter "Peavy" Wagner (RAGE)
Peter Tägtgren (HYPOCRISY, PAIN)

buy it and blast it!!!!!!!!!!!

3.0 out of 5 stars egh....may I incur your wrath for just a second?, August 20, 2009

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Eric H "Not a big fan..." (Chicagoland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inventor of Evil (Audio CD)

This album by German thrashers, Destruction, left me unimpressed.

Oh, by the way, I'm skipping the introduction for this review and going right for the killing blow. Allow me...

The vocals sound nothing like Schmier used to on albums like Mad Butcher or Infernal Overkill. Instead, he vies for a more metalcore-sounding style that I didn't really care for. Not that I hated it, but it left me feeling like an old friend had suddenly gotten a sex-change without telling me and I was left speechless in the worst way.

The songs are, for the most part, forgettable. There are a few good riffs that pop up now and again infrequently like a blind date who is running behind schedule. It just didn't speak to me as a metalhead much at all. It's uninspired in all the ways that count.

I don't hate Destruction at all, mind you. I have or have heard all their classic stuff, and it is just that. Bestial Invasion is a classic thrash piece, same with Thrash Attack and Curse the Gods (even though they COMPLETELY ruined it for their live shows now -- see them live like I did to find out what I mean).

But this album just is not good. It doesn't bite you in the ass the way Enemy of God does, a record by another german thrash outfit. And it doesn't really stay in the brain at all. It's passing thrash. Once the record finished up and I allowed it ample time to soak, I was left feeling empty inside like I do after a powerful bowel movement.

Botttom Line: Not essential, not important, not worth the purchase price. Pass.