Band: Destruction
CD Title: Metal Discharge
Year: 2003
Website: destruction.de
MySpace: myspace.com/officialdestruction
Label: AFM
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Rating: 9.5 / 10
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Disc 1:
After winning the album from the Review Competition, I started to listen to it more than I would a normal CD. At a glance, the album looks, and more importantly, sounds good. Destruction are a German Thrash Metal band, who have been going since 1982, and to hear that Metal Discharge was their thirteenth studio album was pretty cool.
Disc 1 is very much consistant, gast paced, heavy metal. The vocals are pretty good too, some songs, such as The Ravenous Beast have some memorable vocals. The guitaring is pretty cool, some nice solos, fast riffs, it's all there. The drumming is a speedy, pounding beat that sets the album up well.
The disc sounds a bit too consistant at times though, it can be difficult to tell one song from another to someone who hasn't listened to it as much as I did! The disc is still pretty strong, and is a good example of what Destruction do, and proves why they are one of the big three Thrash Metal names.
Disc 2:
Disc 2 is full of Covers and Demos, which isn't a bad thing. The covers are solid, and add another to the list of covers of Iron Maiden I like better than the original.
This is my favourite disc out of the two, mainly because of Nailed To The Cross, which, I don't know why, is damn catchy. The Demo of Metal Discharge, is,in my opinion, better than the proper version, and some of the songs make up for it shorter length. This disc isn't better, as such, being rejected demos and covers, but it's still a match for a lot of other bands, and a good disc on it's own.
Metal Discharge doesn't have many low points, but unfortunately, not very many high points. Nothing will make you go 'wow', and nothing will make you stop it. That being said, it is still a good, fast paced, heavy album, and worth listening to.