Again rooted in Thrash Metal the track comes with a punk vibe and a Motörhead-ish rock spirit before ‘Butchered for Life’ takes over. ‘Filthy Wealth’ is another songs that stands for the variety of the new album. No doubt, Destruction includes all their trademarks on the new album but it’s the passion for details that makes the difference. The intro to this song resonates a non-cookie-cutter approach, which comes back inn each of the tunes. The song fires on all cylinder and it’s the same merciless approach that comes with ‘Betrayal’. The name giver of the album is well placed at the beginning of this release and paves way for the rest to come. Things start with some powerful drums and evolves to a cornerstone of the album. Ten musical blasts made it on the album, all belonging to the best Thrash Metal can offer these days. ‘Born to Perish’ showcases a Metal band that goes strong with an album that picks up the energy of the ‘80s and the experience out of more than three decades on Metal.ĭestruction doesn’t take any prisoners when it comes to the new record. These changes definitely benefited the work on the new album that includes with twin guitars a new aspect of Destruction’s sound and extra firepower. And since a few months it’s Damir Eskic that adds some extra guitar power to Destruction’s sound. Randy Black joined the band a year ago, replacing Vaaver. The new longplayer includes a new drummer. More albums have been released and it’s ‘Born to Perish’, being the newest strike of the German Metal veterans. The album was a strong statement that Destruction is back. Ten years later the two founding members Marcel ‘Schmier’ Schirmer and Michael ‘Mike’ Sifringer regrouped the band and after having inked a deal with Nuclear Blast it was ‘All Hell Breaks Loose’ that ended the hiatus. Things cooled down after the forth longplayer was revealed with the band members parting ways, focusing on various projects that couldn’t get close to the original. The first three albums were and still are genre-defining and it’s the famous ‘Mad Butcher’ that’s THE Destruction anthem to date. Starting in 1982 as Knight Of Demon a renaming happened rather quickly. German Metal pioneers Destruction belong, together with Kreator and Sodom, to the spearhead of German Thrash Metal. The stunning cover art was created by acclaimed artist Gyula from Hungary, who has also created artwork for Annihilator, Grave Digger, Stratovarius, Tankard and many more.(9/10) The ones of you that doesn’t know Destruction yet (are there any?) better fasten your seatbelt before pressing the ‘Start-button and all the other, go wild with this album. This is fantastic and we appreciate the loyalty as a true blessing! Thanks to all our faithful fans worldwide for the backing up & the support, they prove since more than 35 years that thrash metal is hard to kill and will survive all bloody trends! And we wanna thank the people behind the scenes involved in this record as well, especially our label Nuclear Blast, that I consider not just a business partner, we are working with friends! YOU ROCK OUR WORLD!!!"īorn To Perish was recorded in January and February 2019 with VO Pulver at Little Creek Studios in Switzerland and is the first Destruction album featuring Randy Black on the drums and new second guitar shredder Damir Eskic!. On a side note many other great results like the #2 in Japan on the Disc Union charts are also worth to be mentioned I think. In the long history of the band we never had better chart results than for Born To Perish. The band states: "We are truly blown away by the fantastic reactions, the metal fans have given us since the album came out! Those official chart entries are now of course the little cherry on the pie. These are the best Destruction chart results ever in these countries.
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