![]() That being said, this is the most technically gifted lineup they’ve ever had. This has been Destruction’s major issue since getting back in the game in 2000, and very few of their recent albums are solid from start to finish. There are a few keepers, some that are just okay, and a few that don’t work. What you end up with is about half of a solid thrash album. The Testament-esque “Butchered for Life” has a lot of good elements but is hamstrung by an inability to edit, as it runs nearly seven minutes and becomes tedious. Cuts like “Rotten” and “Filthy Wealth” are generic, filler grade material, and “Ratcatcher” is just a bad song that should have been left on the studio floor to catch beer suds and potato chips. Sadly, the remainder of Born to Perish doesn’t maintain the relatively high standards of these highlights. “We Breed Evil” is also a solid slice of speed fury, though it has some awkward refrains that lessen its overall impact. Other worthwhile moments include the raucous “Tyrants of the Netherworld” which could have appeared on their debut and been right at home. It’s a straight-ahead burner with simple but satisfying riffs and a enough pure testosterone to wake the mostly dead. “Betrayal” rounds out an impressive opening trifecta of meaty thrashers that show the band is far from over the hill. “Inspired by Death” is especially olde timey sounding too, with hooky riffs flying this way and that and a bouncing, almost joyous mood that belies the dark lyrical content. The problem however, is like so many olde thrash dawgs, Destruction forgets to self-edit and the song runs on about 2 minutes too long. ![]() It’s a fine thrasher and the presence of Damir Eskic (ex- Gonoreas) on lead guitar pays immediate dividends, creating a fuller, more oppressive wall of riffs, and when solos are dropped, they’re impressive and excessive. It’s urgent and aggressive, with Schmier’s toxic thrash barks as caustic as they were during my misspent youth some 35 years ago. It has that classic Destruction sound I love but doesn’t feel like a retread of past glories. No, but the elder speed lords come out of the gates sounding quite spry on the marauding title track. Has this ancient thrash act found a way to reinvent the speed wheel so late in their career? It sports a new lineup featuring a new drummer and a second guitarist and the material feels like a conscious effort to recapture more of the band’s original sound even as they make use of the newfangled dual guitar element to expand the parameters of what Destruction typically does 1. That brings us to their 14th thrash platter, Born to Perish. Their second act has been solid if inconsistent, with some albums feeling rushed and half-baked. After 1987s Release From Agony however, things went off the rails for the band and they weren’t able to get their heads straight until 2000. On seminal early albums like Infernal Overkill and Eternal Devastation, their oddball sound and penchant for quirky but biting riffs set them apart from and above fellow countrymen Sodom and Kreator. 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not and shall utterly perish in their own corruption 13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time.As a rowdy teen thrashard, Destruction was my favorite part of the 80s Germanic thrash wave, for a while anyhow. 11Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government.
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