Infernal overkill

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Infernal overkill
Studio album by Destruction

Publication
(s)

1985

Label (s) Steamhammer

Format (s)

LP, MC

Genre (s)

Thrash metal

Title (number)

8th

running time

39:26

occupation
  • Mike: guitar
  • Lubricant: bass, vocals
  • Tommy: drums

production

Destruction

Studio (s)

Caet Studio

chronology
Sentence of Death (EP, 1984) Infernal overkill Eternal Devastation (1986)

Infernal Overkill is the debut album by the German thrash metal band Destruction .

Emergence

After the band's first production, an EP , sold around 14,000 units, the SPV label decided to record a debut album. It was released in the summer of 1985.

Track list

  1. Invincible Force - 4:20
  2. Death Trap - 5:49
  3. The Ritual - 5:11
  4. Tormentor - 5:06
  5. Bestial Invasion - 4:36
  6. Thrash Attack - 2:56
  7. Antichrist - 3:44
  8. Black Death - 7:39

layout

The album was released with a new band logo. You can see a bursting skull, which was later used in variations as a recurring motif on the following albums.

Music style and lyrics

The online portal Classic Thrash describes the songs as “very consistent, but also a bit repetitive; the band's own style is fully developed, although the nasty vocals seem somewhat reserved ”. The quality of the LP recordings is less clear than that of the EP. Daniel Bukszan notes in the book The Encyclöpedia öf Heavy Metal that the album has poor sound quality, but you can clearly hear the aggression and enthusiasm of the band. Martin Popoff writes in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 2: The Eighties that the album is characterized by excessive hardness and too high a playing speed. He also complained about poor production.

reception

Guitarist Euronymous named Destruction as the inspiration for his band Mayhem and called Destruction's early albums "masterpieces of black, stinking metal". The Rock Hard took the debut album of Destruction to the list of the most important pioneers of Black Metal on.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jon Kristiansen : Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries . Bazillion Points Books, Brooklyn, NY 2011, pp. 412 f .
  2. ↑ Rodrigo: Destruction Interview with Lubricant. In: ultimatemetal.com. November 19, 2001, accessed March 21, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Reviews - D. Classic Thrash, accessed on March 16, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Daniel Bukszan: The Encyclöpedia öf Heavy Metal . Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2012, ISBN 978-1-4027-9230-4 , pp. 77 .
  5. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 2: The Eighties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2005, ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5 , pp. 95 .
  6. ↑ Esa Lahdenpera: Mayhem . Northern Black Metal Legends. In: Kill Yourself !!! Magazines . No. 4 , 1995, p. 44 .
  7. ↑ The most important pioneers of Black Metal . In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 71 .