All Hell Breaks Loose
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2000 |
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December 1999 |
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CD, LP, MC |
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13 |
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running time |
45:28 |
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All Hell Breaks Loose is the sixth studio album by the German thrash metal band Destruction .
Emergence
The album was produced by Peter Tägegren . Destruction had met him at the With Full Force Festival in 1999. At the time, Tägegren said that he would love to produce a CD for the Germans. When a new record was actually due, they were suggested different scene sizes, but they wanted to fall back on Tägegren's offer. Band spokesperson Marcel “Lubricant” Schirmer : “From the very beginning, his musical roots, which are quite similar to ours, his good price / performance ratio and his excellent hearing spoke for Tägtgren. Besides, the man is really metal! ” The recordings took place in December 1999 in his Abyss studio in Pärlby , Sweden . Tagtgren himself played the second guitar in the new version of the band's classic Total Desaster and helped vocally. Sven Vormann had previously become a permanent drummer.
There was a huge pressure of expectation on the band, to which, in the years of success, so to speak, Destruction's figurehead, had just returned to make a trio again from the four-man formation in his usual double function as bassist and singer. Lubricant, he later said, would no longer record three (unspecified) songs from the album in the form it was in at the time, but the error only emerged during the live performance. The new songs were created spontaneously. Lubricant stuck to his motto that Thrash must be composed straightforwardly, but in view of the general increase in technical versatility over the years, Sifringer, who according to Lubricant did not want to stay below a certain level, allowed the songs to be upgraded in a moderate way. Lubric also understood that "a dumb copy of Infernal Overkill " would have led to allegations of self-plagiarism . With The Butcher Strikes Back , however, a new hymn in the old style has been created, which has a "superficial catchiness", while the other songs first needed several runs to become a catchy tune . The re-recording of Total Disaster came about because there was still studio time left. The classic was "ripped off", said Schmier. Tagtgren had to be persuaded to cooperate. The Metallica - cover Whiplash was a hidden track added. It shouldn't be on the album as a regular song, so that the listeners wouldn't even think of lack of ideas.
In January 2000, Schmier invited the metal press to his then Barracuda bistro in the Istein district (municipality of Efringen-Kirchen ) for an album presentation. After that, they didn't go on a large-scale tour, as was usual in the past, but played three shows with Raise Hell .
Track list
- Intro - 0:43
- The Final Curtain - 4:26
- Machinery of Lies - 3:42
- Tears of Blood - 4:03
- Devastation of Your Soul - 4:10
- The Butcher Strikes Back - 3:08
- World Domination of Pain - 4:05
- X-Treme Measures - 4:54
- All Hell Breaks Loose - 5:40
- Total disaster 2000 - 3:07
- Visual prostitution - 3:51
- Kingdom of Damnation - 3:37
- Whiplash - 3:31
layout
The front of the cover is adorned with a collage of body parts, studded with nails and wires, or as Schirmer put it, “nipples and tattoos”. The result is the alienated faces of the three musicians on a single neck in front of a hell scenario. “We took full-body photos of ourselves and put different parts together. But then we wanted to withhold some other body parts from you. It was about showing the band as a unit as well as including the album title. Of course, the cover is also based a bit on Eternal Devastation . One should stop quickly realize that it 'ne Destruction-plate. "In pointing out that the other band photos" "are abundant martial failed, because the musicians weapons staring in war situations and also to and from previously known cartridge belts inverted crosses to can be seen, replied lubricant, the pictures had to "just pop", one finally competes under the name Destruction, the album title also obliges and one could not speak of a soft image. “Something like that fits very well. It shouldn't look too militant, but it should be brutal. I never really mothballed the upside down cross anyway. I often walked around with them when I was no longer with Destruction. [...] I was never Christian and never will be. "
Music style and lyrics
According to Matt Hensch's assessment on rockworld.com , the band was past its prime , but was still hungry on the Reunion album. It draws its inspiration from the second wave of Thrash and Groove Metal and therefore sounds modern without having lost the old explosiveness. This is particularly evident in the new version of Total Disaster . World Domination of Pain and Visual Prostitution have a higher proportion of grooves, while The Final Curtain and The Butcher Strikes Back have a higher proportion of “Modern Thrash” . X-Treme Measures and Kingdom of Damnation are bland and negligible.
Jan Jaedike wrote in Rock Hard that the album was "a healthy mixture of all destruction elements and not a dull copy of the legendary early phase". Technically, Destruction has "developed significantly" compared to the early works that are considered "Classics" thanks to Stifringer's growing demands, so that All Hell Breaks Loose sounds like a compromise between "old straightforwardness and new complexity". Uwe “Buffo” Schnädelbach, also Rock Hard , paid tribute to the producer's work, to which he attributed the modern touch of the otherwise “murderous riffs , brutal drums and extreme vocals that are sometimes a little reminiscent of Forbidden front siren Russ Anderson”.
Classic Thrash calls All Hell Breaks Loose the most energetic and streamlined Destruction release in a very long time, and the result sounds like a presentation of riffs that have been stored over the years . Musically, however, the album is slightly repetitive.
In his review of the album, Martin Popoff stated in The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s that the band plays Thrash Metal, which sounds more chaotic than most German and San Francisco Bay Area bands. Like Venom , however, the band now sounds cleaner and more complicated than it did at the beginning. The vocals also sound clearly irritable, as with Venom.
Church and religion appear differently in the lyrics, as the band members have always been anti-clerical and the topic is timeless, as Schmier explained. “The Vatican is much more corrupt than the CDU . Then there are all the sex games with little boys. This is really an unbelievable place. ”Finally, he emphasized that his extreme attitude of rejection did not escalate in the direction of Satanism , although he was inclined to this stupidity as a 17-year-old.
reception
With Lubricating back on vocals, All Hell Breaks Loose was "more than just a tired revival of old antics" according to Classic Thrash . While it would have been easy to underestimate the band, the energy of the opening songs from The Final Curtain is enough to take most listeners off guard. Total Disaster 2000 proves that the band can handle their classic material in a very convincing way. Despite the slightly repetitive tendencies and some pieces to throw away like X-treme Measures , the album is a stronger return than one could have expected.
The rating of Matt Hensch, who only disapproved of X-Treme Measures and Kingdom of Damnation , is 8.3 on the 10-point scale. The megafrank, who wrote reviews for Vampster, enjoyed the “pure” destruction sound image, not pimped up by effects, in which the “Schmierscreams”, the typical screaming attacks of Lubricants, were not missing. Towards the end there would be two fillers, All Hell Breaks Loose and Kingdom of Damnation , which lacked a common thread, but he made a purchase decision.
“Although the brutal pounding of the early days has given way to a more dignified production, the band's roots are on tracks like the cracker Machinery of Lies (introduced by one of those greasy yiieehhaaa! Screams), the neck breaker bobbing out of the speakers with staccato riffs Tears of Blood , the nasty Devastation of Your Soul , the loud invitation to World Domination of Pain or the cruel-divine remake of the EP classic Total Desaster , ”said Wolfgang Schäfer to the rock-hard readers. He awarded 9.5 out of 10 possible points. An average score of 8.3 from all ten employee ratings led the album to the top of the rock-hard judges' scale. Schnädelbach rated the work in Rock Hard higher than any existing work of the same type, by Dimmu Borgir , Immortal or whoever.
The album reached the maximum number of 7 in the individual review of Metal Hammer , which Stefan Müller had accepted. He wrote of a connection with what made the band famous. “The mangy feeling of the old days” was retained, but there was also an “increased musicality”, which was not an end in itself, but was “at the service of the song”. The best example of this are the tempo changes in Tears of Blood . He chose The Butcher Strikes Back as the strongest song . He wrote of the musicians: “Mike's riffs kill forever. Even if they are far more complex than in the old days. The consistent Thrash drumming by Sven [...] fits in seamlessly. Above it all are the unmistakable screams of Lubricant [...]. It sounds better and more aggressive than ever. ”He concluded by stating that All Hell Breaks Loose was “ a contemporary, but by no means trendy Thrash record ”that hadn't been around for a long time. In the overview table of new releases, the album took 9th place with an average value of 4.25 points calculated from twelve individual ratings. The Musikexpress , published by the same publisher , only awarded 3 out of 7 points. There it was said that the musicians “ constantly turn around their own axis like a blinded cyclops . [...] Your stick riffs with a tendency towards atonality are constantly at odds with all times and fashions [...]. "
Danny didn't hear a trace of nostalgia on metalreviews.com , found the album "wonderful" and awarded 90 out of 100 possible points. Ingo Knollmann from Visions fluctuated when examining the album between enthusiasm for the "lack of relaxation" and the 80s harshness and laughter when looking at the clothes and the song title. He awarded 8 out of 12 possible points.
In an interview, Schmier gave the fans' opinion that All Hell Breaks Loose only had one great title, The Butcher Strikes Back . There would be a big gap to the other titles, the album simply didn't have any songs of equal value.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Martin Popoff , David Perri: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2011, ISBN 978-1-926592-20-6 , pp. 120 .
- ↑ a b c d Buffo [Schnädelbach]: Destruction . Sex with the ex. In: Rock Hard . No. 154 , March 2000, bugging. Spied on at the mixer, p. 56 .
- ↑ a b Megafrank: Destruction: All hell breaks loose (Megafrank). (No longer available online.) In: vampster.com. April 18, 2000, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 21, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Rodrigo: Destruction Interview with Lubricant. In: ultimatemetal.com. November 19, 2001, accessed March 21, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Jan Jaedike: Destruction . More corrupt than the CDU. In: Rock Hard . No. 156 , May 2000, pp. 78 f .
- ↑ a b Matt Hensch: Destruction - All Hell Breaks Loose Review. In: rockworld.com. 2011, accessed on March 21, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Reviews - D. Classic Thrash, accessed on March 16, 2015 (English).
- ^ Wolfgang Schäfer: Destruction . All Hell Breaks Loose. In: Rock Hard . No. 156 , May 2000, dynamite. The cracker of the month and the ass bomb, p. 84 ( rockhard.de [accessed March 30, 2015]).
- ↑ The judgment 05/2000 . In: Rock Hard . No. 156 , May 2000, Richter scale, p. 80 f .
- ^ Stefan Müller: Destruction . All Hell Breaks Loose. In: Metal Hammer . May 2000, Reviews, p. 92 .
- ↑ May . In: Metal Hammer . May 2000, Soundcheck, p. 86 f .
- ↑ (mrs): Destruction . All Hell Breaks Loose. In: Musikexpress . No. 532 , May 2000, plates from AZ, p. 54 .
- ↑ Danny: Destruction - All Hell bReaks Loose. In: metalreviews.com. May 2000, accessed March 21, 2015 .
- ^ Ingo Knollmann: Destruction - All Hell Breaks Loose. In: visions.de. April 2000, accessed March 21, 2015 .