Cries from the Quiet World

domingo, 15 de febrero de 2026

Destruction "Sentence Of Death + Infernal Overkill (1993 Reissue, Japan, Metal Mania, TECX-20524)"

Infernal Overkill is the debut studio album by German thrash metal band Destruction, released on May 24, 1985.

The album was re-released on February 23, 2018.

Track listing

All songs written by Destruction (Edition Jumar Music).

Intro / Total Desaster 05:28
Black Mass 03:59
Mad Butcher 03:30
Satan's Vengeance 03:16
Devil's Soldiers 03:25
Invincible Force 04:19
Death Trap 05:49
The Ritual 05:10
Tormentor 05:06
Bestial Invasion 04:36
Thrash Attack 02:55
Antichrist 03:44
Black Death 07:39

Time: 58:56

- Tracks 1-5 taken from the 1984 Sentence of Death ep.

- Tracks 6-13 taken from the 1985 Infernal Overkill lp.

- Comes with Obi strip.

Recording information:

Sentence of Death

- Recorded and mixed 9/84 in the Caet Studio, Berlin.

- Mastered at Studio Nord-Breman, Germany.

Infernal Overkill

- Recorded at Caet Studio, Berlin.

- Mastered at Teldec Press, Berlin.

- Produced by Destruction.

Destruction "Release From Agony (Germany, Steamhammer, 85-7506)"

Release from Agony is the third studio album by German thrash metal band Destruction, released on December 1, 1987 by Steamhammer/SPV in mainly Europe, and in 1988 by Profile/Rock Hotel Records in North America. This was their last studio album to feature bassist and lead vocalist Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer until he rejoined the band in 1999.

The music on Release from Agony is considered to be more technically advanced than its predecessor.

Joe DiVita of Loudwire said of the album's cover artwork: "Maybe those tubes are flooded with morphine and we just can’t see how relaxed and calm this demented figure actually is. It’s like Pablo Picasso delved into heavy metal artwork because none of the facial features are in their usual spots and with the headwrap at the top and eyes embedded in the hands, we don’t even want to know what’s under there." Simon Young of Metal Hammer wrote: "Is this a nightmare or a misinterpreted artistic brief? It's a hellish vision, sure, but one that says what exactly is fucking going on with this poor bastard's medical care? We didn't clap on our doorsteps every Thursday for this."

John Book of AllMusic called the album "an overlooked classic," giving it four and a half stars out of five.

In 2023, Metal Hammer included the album cover on their list of "50 most hilariously ugly rock and metal album covers ever".

Track listing

All tracks are written by Destruction.

"Beyond Eternity" 1:11
"Release from Agony" 4:44
"Dissatisfied Existence" 4:30
"Sign of Fear" 6:46
"Unconscious Ruins" 4:27
"Incriminated" 5:22
"Our Oppression" 4:49
"Survive to Die" 5:31

Total length: 37:20

The very first CD version without barcode.

Made in West-Germany

Recording information:

- Recorded and mixed at Karo Studio, Münster, West Germany, September 1987.

- Remastered at Little Creek Studio, Ormalingen, Switzerland.

- Kalle Trapp – production, recording, engineering, mixing

- Joachim Luetke – cover art

viernes, 13 de febrero de 2026

Destruction "Born To Perish [Japan, Chaos Reigns/Ward Records, Inc., GQCS-90736]"

Born to Perish is the fourteenth studio album by the German thrash metal band Destruction. It was released on 9 August 2019 through Nuclear Blast. The album marks the band’s first time since 1999 that they recorded it as a four-piece band instead of three. It is also the last album to have founding member Mike Sifringer and the first to feature guitarist Damir Eskić and drummer Randy Black.

On 23 January 2018, Vaaver left Destruction "for family reasons", according to Schmier. He took time off in 2015 to be with his family following the birth of his second child. Randy Black would temporarily replace him until the band finds a "worthy successor". He was later announced as the band's new drummer. On 28 February 2019, Swiss guitarist Damir Eskić joined the band. This would become the new line-up for the fifteenth studio album Born to Perish.

In May 2019, when the album cover was revealed, Schmier spoke to the French channel Duke TV about the work on the upcoming Destruction album: "It's a process that took us three months - writing, recording and mixing. The new influence of the guys is felt, because there are more shred solos on the album. Randy is a very solid, very tight player - and very groove-y. You can hear it. This time around, we tried to make songs that hit the mark faster – the songs just hit you straight away. It’s brutal, but it’s very catchy. So when you hear the songs for the first time, you remember them straight away. Nobody writes an album like that every time. Sometimes you write songs and after a while you’re like, ‘Maybe this is too hard,’ because you want to be an artist, you want to express yourself. I think we’ve managed to write a really punchy album this time around."

Jay H. Gorania of Blabbermouth.net gave the album a 7 out of 10 and concluded, "As we all suspected, Destruction weren’t out to reinvent the thrash metal wheel. With Born To Perish, they’re just riding that wheel into hell, and it’s amazing."

Track listing

"Born To Perish" 5:20
"Inspired By Death" 4:16
"Betrayal" 4:05
"Rotten" 4:49
"Filthy Wealth" 4:01
"Butchered For Life" 6:43
"Tyrants Of The Netherworld" 3:41
"We Breed Evil" 5:16
"Fatal Flight 17" 4:27
"Ratcatcher" 4:02
"Fire Down Under" (Riot cover) 2:49

Total length: 49:29

A music video was made for the song Betrayal, released by Nuclear Blast on Jul 19, 2019.

An official video was made for the song Inspired by Death.

Recording information:

Recorded, mixed, and mastered from January to March 2019 in the Little Creek Studio, Gelterkinden, Switzerland.

domingo, 8 de febrero de 2026

Destruction "Cracked Brain (Japan, Metal Mania, TECP-25301)"

Cracked Brain is the fourth full-length studio album by German thrash metal band Destruction, released on May 1, 1990. It is the band's only album to feature André Grieder of Poltergeist, replacing Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer, who was fired after the initial sessions for the album. Also featured is a cover of The Knack song "My Sharona".

Recording for Cracked Brain first started in 1989 but came to a halt when Destruction fired their vocalist and bassist Schmier. Guitarist Mike Sifringer recalled, "We recorded the basic tracks – drums and riff-guitars – at Union-Studios in Munich, a very expensive place. But Schmier was not happy with the music anymore, so what to do? We had to stop the recording session and went back home, everybody was pissed. In hindsight I know we made a wrong decision, we didn't talk enough. We did not meet for years after the split."

On the album's recording process, Sifringer said, "To save a bit of money we recorded bass and vocals in Berlin at Sky Track. A funny bloke named Gerdy, that's all I remember, was behind the desk there. Finally, the producer Guy Bidmead, Oli, Harry and I mixed the whole thing back in Munich." Destruction began re-recording Cracked Brain shortly after hiring André Grieder of Poltergeist as Schmier's replacement. Drummer Oliver Kaiser recalled, "André had been a long-time friend of ours – and still is. We asked him if he would like to finish Cracked Brain with us because we liked his melodious approach to thrash, his style was a bit Testament-influenced you might say. We knew there would never be another Schmier so we thought it'd be better to go into a different direction with the vocals. André really did a great job on Cracked Brain." He added, "When André flew up to Berlin for the recording sessions, I had everything already laid out for him. I sang the songs to him and he nailed them just like that."

Track listing

All songs by Sifringer, Wilkens and Kaiser, except track 5 written by Doug Fieger and Berton Averre