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Inventor of Evil

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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!

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!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

This is a really solid thrash metal album. Guitars, vocals, drums... I'm loving all of it. I noticed the rythym riffage in particular, as it's as consistently good as you could hope for from a band. I'm sort of confused by the slow instrumental song closing the consistently thrashy/groovy album, though I certainly didn't mind it. If you're into thrash, you owe it to yourself to move this album to the top of your "to buy" list.

I'll admit I was never a huge Destruction fan back in the day. I owned all their albums up until 1989, and sometimes I really liked Release from Agony as well as the first two records. Never a big listener though. I was more into their fellow countrymen Kreator.

I bought this album on chance, but wow this is really good. You have the three piece band hashing out fast, quite melodic, great Euro-metal. And it rules! The first track is a little disappointing but the second one ushers in a cry from Schmiter that recalls much force. The guitars and drumming are really good. Occasionally Schmiter's vocals are really melodic...then the signature shriek comes back.

Songs like "Twist of Fate" are so groove oriented that you don't know whether to boogey down or bang your head. There is always a progressive element to the music that makes it all the more enjoyable. If you wished bands like Slayer could still rock as hard as they did before 1990, do yourself a favor and pick this up. The lesser tier Thrash bands just do it better than the triple platinum ones.