Destruction
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 Destruction at the Metal Frenzy Festival 2017 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Thrash metal |
| founding | 1982 |
| Website | http://www.destruction.de/ |
| Founding members | |
| Marcel "Lubricant" Schirmer (until 1989, since 1999) | |
| Michael "Mike" Sifringer | |
| Thomas "Tommy" Sandmann (until 1987) | |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, bass |
"Lubricant" (until 1989, since 1999) |
guitar |
Damir Eskić (since 2019) |
guitar |
Michael "Mike" Sifringer |
Drums |
Randy Black (since 2018) |
| former members | |
singing |
André Grieder (1989–1990) |
singing |
Thomas Rosenmerkel (1993–1999) |
guitar |
Harry Wilkens (1987–1990) |
guitar |
Michael Piranio (1993-1999) |
bass |
Christian Engler (1989–1990) |
Drums |
Oliver Kaiser (1987-1999) |
Drums |
Sven Vormann (1999-2001) |
Drums |
Marc Reign (2001-2010) |
Drums |
Wawrzyniec "Vaaver" Dramowicz (2010–2018) |
Destruction ( Engl . For Destruction ') is one of the oldest still existing German thrash metal - bands . It was founded in 1982 in Weil am Rhein in southern Baden and, along with Kreator and Sodom, is one of the most successful German bands of this style.
Band history
The band was formed in 1982 as the Knight of Demon. Marcel “Lubricant” Schirmer joined Michael “Mike” Sifringer and Thomas “Tommy” Sandmann as bass player, the second guitarist left the band shortly afterwards. Singer Ulf Kühne stayed for a few months after being renamed Destruction, but was excluded from the band after a dispute with Sifringer shortly before the recordings for the demo Bestial Invasion of Hell . Lubricant took over the singing.
From this time there is an alleged first demo Speed Kills , which, according to Jan Jaedike from Rock Hard, is "obviously a fake" and is also unknown to Schmier. The first recordings were made independently of the American Thrash Metal initiators, the inspiration came particularly from Motörhead . According to Schmier, the musicians were “bloody beginners” and were driven even more strongly when they discovered them by the “then already divine” sounding US bands, which just like them were getting harder, louder and faster. After Bestial Invasion of Hell , she signed SPV and released the EP Sentence of Death in 1984 . At a Venom club meeting in Sindelfingen, the band spontaneously performed their first live performance. The first official concert with Iron Angel followed on December 1st . Parallel to the release of the debut album Infernal Overkill , the band was on tour with Slayer .
The following year, Eternal Devastation was released and the band went on tour with Kreator and Rage . Sandmann left the band and was replaced by Oliver Kaiser from Efringen-Kirchen. Harry Wilkens was also hired as the second guitarist. The 1987 EP Mad Butcher was followed by a tour with Motörhead , which in turn was followed by Release from Agony .
In 1989 the band broke up after a tour with the Swiss Celtic Frost : Schmier founded the band Headhunter , in which Jörg Michael ( Rage , Mekong Delta , Running Wild , Stratovarius , Saxon ) drummed while he was at Destruction of André Grieder (ex- Poltergeist ), with which the album Cracked Brain was released. Neither of them were really successful projects in the period that later became known as Neo-Destruction.
comeback
Ten years after the separation, the band was reunited between Lubricant and Sifringer together with the new drummer Sven Vormann. After appearances at important German festivals, Nuclear Blast released All Hell Breaks Loose the following year .
In the first edition of the 2001 album The Antichrist , mispressings with the wrong sequence of songs occurred, which could have been exchanged at the record company if the band had not warned about this on their website because of its high collector's value.
In October 2001 Sven left Destruction (new band: from 2001 to 2007 Jesus Chrysler Superskunk , since 2008 abandoned), because the band's tour schedule was too much for him and he needed more time for his family. With the new drummer Marc Reign ( Orth and Gunjah) the band then went on tour with Sodom and Kreator. The band toured South America with Kreator .
After he stole his electric bass while on tour in the USA around 2003 , he suffered a splinter fracture on his right hand, which forced him to take a break and the band had to cancel the tour of Great Britain. At the beginning of the third Gulf War could be on the band website, The-Exploited - cover Fuck the USA download free.
On August 22, 2005, the album Inventor of Evil was released after the band switched to AFM Records in January .
In August 2007, the band played a best-of show at Wacken Open Air, where all former band members performed together.
On August 29, 2008 the new album DEVOLUTION was released on AFM Records.
In March 2010, the band announced on their homepage that Marc Reign would leave the band, but the announced concerts would still take place. On November 23, 2010, Wawrzyniec “Vaaver” Dramowicz was introduced as the new drummer by Indukti and UnSun , a studied musician of Polish-Canadian origin.
On February 18, 2011, the new album Day of Reckoning was released in Europe, which was officially released in the USA on March 8. The year 2011 began for the band with a North American tour with the band Heathen .
On July 19, 2018, Randy Black (ex-Annihilator, ex-Primal Fear) was introduced as the new drummer after Vaaver had previously left the band for family reasons.
style
music
On the demo Bestial Invasion of Hell , according to Jaedike, Schmier's singing was “even more blatant than later and sounded completely anti-social”, Lubricant mentions “comments like 'mangy dog' and such,” but it sounded “so extreme” “that it sounded to some Has already been well received by people ”. In an advertisement in Metal Hammer , the band described their music as " Black Satanic Hardcore Speed Metal ". Destruction's first EP, Sentence of Death , was characterized by "the great amount of unrestrained energy that all of these pieces demonstrate"; At that time the band called their music “Black Speed Metal” and thanked “all Black Speed Metal obsessed” Jaedike describes the style as “pretty original on the demo and on 'Sentence Of Death', only 'Devil's Soldiers' 'instrumentally sounded very much like Venom ”. Euronymous named Destruction as the inspiration for his band Mayhem and called their first albums “masterpieces of black, stinking metal”. According to their own statement, the band was not aware of their cult status in the black metal environment, among other things, until Schmier's return to Destruction in 1999.
“There were men like Abbath from Immortal in front of us, saying that they are huge fans, and some of them had tears in their eyes. This honesty is really METAL ! "
On the debut album Infernal Overkill , the songs are "very consistent, but also a bit repetitive, and the band's own style is fully developed, although the nasty vocals seem somewhat reserved". The sound is less clear than on the EP. Eternal Devastation follows much the same style; the production is clearer, however, but was still referred to as "thin". Even Mad Butcher is a typical Destruction publication. In Release Agony from is it is "the most ambitious work of the band by then"; the early tracks are not that different from the older material, but songs like Sign of Fear demonstrate a "darker and more technical approach". According to John Chedsey of Satan Stole My Teddybear , the band "had the strange ability to come up with some great songs without actually being able to play them well."
Cracked Brain , recorded without a smear, is “more formulaic” than Destruction's earlier releases and “doesn't stand out as much as some of Destruction's earlier works”. Her new singer was distinguished by a hoarse voice.
All Hell Breaks Loose , with which Schmier took over the vocals again, was "probably the most energetic and streamlined Destruction release in a long time", and musically slightly repetitive. The successor The Antichrist has been described as a "modern classic" of the Thrash Metal genre. On Inventor of Evil and DEVOLUTION, however, the band played material in the tried and tested style that was described as less inspired.
Texts
Corresponding to the band's importance for the later black metal scene, their early works flirted with Satanism . According to Jaedike, the lyrics were "initially [...] a Venom list". With their appearance, the band wanted to "mainly offend" in their Catholic environment. On DEVOLUTION the band expressed their dissatisfaction with what was happening on earth and wrote lyrics about "the problems with religion and politics". Sifringer is of the opinion that heavy metal should represent a protest position, which is why he rejects "kindergarten metal shit" and texts about knights, castles and dragons and only allows Ronnie James Dio as an exception; this at least write "good texts that have a deeper meaning". About the lyrics on Day of Reckoning , Phil Freeman of Allmusic wrote that the lyrics might not be memorable, but with song titles like Hate Is My Fuel , Armageddonizer , Sheep of the Regime and Sorcerer of Black Magic , it's pretty clear what to expect: " a little bit of angry political hate speech and a little bit of routine occultism ”. The song City of Doom from the album Spiritual Genocide is about Auschwitz , which is called both with the Polish name Oświęcim and the German; The song ends with the German verse: "Auschwitz - the city of suffering until the end of this world / Auschwitz - the shame of a whole generation / ... and beyond !!!".
Discography
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 1985 |
Infernal Overkill Steamhammer / SPV |
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First published: May 24, 1985
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| 1986 | Eternal Devastation Steamhammer / SPV |
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First published: July 12, 1986
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| 1987 |
Release from Agony Steamhammer / SPV |
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First published: December 1, 1987
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| 1990 | Cracked Brain Noise Records |
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First published: June 1, 1990
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| 1998 | The Least Successful Human Cannonball Brain Butcher |
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First published: October 1998
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| 2000 | All Hell Breaks Loose Nuclear Blast |
DE67 (1 week) DE |
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First published: April 25, 2000
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| 2001 | The Antichrist Nuclear Blast |
DE89 (1 week) DE |
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First published: August 27, 2001
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| 2003 | Metal Discharge Nuclear Blast |
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First published: September 22, 2003
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| 2007 | Inventor of Evil AFM Records |
DE68 (1 week) DE |
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First published: August 22, 2007
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| 2008 | DEVOLUTION AFM Records |
DE65 (1 week) DE |
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First published: August 29, 2008
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| 2011 | Day of Reckoning Nuclear Blast |
DE95 (1 week) DE |
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First published: February 18, 2011
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| 2012 | Spiritual Genocide Nuclear Blast |
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First published: November 23, 2012
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| 2016 | Under Attack Nuclear Blast |
DE68 (1 week) DE |
CH90 (1 week) CH |
First published: May 13, 2016
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| 2019 | Born to Perish Nuclear Blast |
DE26 (1 week) DE |
CH36 (1 week) CH |
First published: August 9, 2019
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage Nuclear Blast. Retrieved July 18, 2010 .
- ^ A b Jan Jaedike: Everything except high German . The beginnings of Destruction. In: Rock Hard . No. 329 , October 2014, p. 29 .
- ↑ a b c d e Jan Jaedike: Everything except high German . The beginnings of Destruction. In: Rock Hard . No. 329 , October 2014, p. 30 .
- ↑ Jan Fleckhaus, Christof Leim: The origin of hardness . In: Metal Hammer . No. 3 , 2008, p. 39 .
- ↑ Jan Jaedike: Everything except high German . The beginnings of Destruction. In: Rock Hard . No. 329 , October 2014, p. 31 .
- ↑ News ( Memento of March 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 22, 2013.
- ↑ News ( Memento of December 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 22, 2013.
- ↑ DESTRUCTION - introduces new drummer! In: Nuclear Blast . July 19, 2018 ( nuclearblast.de [accessed August 4, 2018]).
- ↑ a b c d e f Reviews - D. Classic Thrash, accessed on March 16, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Marc Halupczok: Between death and rebirth . In: Metal Hammer . Special issue No. 1/2012: History of Metal . S. 24 .
- ↑ “SPECIAL FUCKING THANX TO: […] all you Black Speed Metal maniacs” Destruction: Sentence of Death , Banzai Records 1984.
- ↑ “VENOM was our first and major influence, later BATHORY , HELLHAMMER , SODOM and DESTRUCTION, they have inspired us too [sic!] That where we stand to day [sic!] . It's quite an [sic!] Weird that everybody talk [sic!] About VENOM, BATHORY and HELLHAMMER as the old Evil bands, but nobody mention SODOM and DESTRUCTION. They came at the same time as BATHORY and HELLHAMMER and their first albums are masterpieces of Black stinking Metal! […] So many copy BATHORY but I have never heard anyone copying DESTRUCTION, exept [sic!] For NECRONOMICON . " Esa Lahdenpera: Mayhem . Northern Black Metal Legends . In: Kill Yourself !!! Magazine , No. 4, 1995, p. 44.
- ^ A b Jan Jaedike: Destruction . Tears do not lie. In: Rock Hard . No. 307 , December 2012, p. 36 .
- ^ Vendetta - Go And Live… Stay And Die. metal.de, accessed on March 16, 2015 .
- ^ Vendetta , accessed September 24, 2012.
- ↑ Jan Jaedike: Everything except high German . The beginnings of Destruction. In: Rock Hard . No. 329 , October 2014, p. 30th f .
- ↑ Dawn Irwin: Komodo Rock Talks With Mike Sifringer of Destruction ( January 31, 2009 memento in the Internet Archive ), August 29, 2008, accessed January 22, 2013.
- ↑ Phil Freeman: Day of Reckoning - Destruction , accessed January 22, 2013.
- ↑ Jan Jaedike: Destruction . Tears do not lie. In: Rock Hard . No. 307 , December 2012, p. 37 .
