vote
5.5
- Band:
Destruction - Duration: 00:50:33
- Available since: 07/03/2025
- Label:
-
Napalm Records
Streaming not yet available
The preview of the biographical documentary of Destruction, “The Art of Destruction” is released on Thursday 6 March; Exactly twenty -four hours before the release of their new studio effort.
“Birth of Malice”, chapter eighteen for the Teutonic Thrash Band, comes three years after that “diabolical” that had decreed the beginning of a new parenthesis within the forty -year career of the crawler led by Schmier.
In fact, the historic guitarist Mike, the Weil Am Rhein group had perfected the new four -element settled, definitively greeted, with the entrance to the second guitar of the Argentine Martin Furia who, with pleasant surprise, had brought a pinch of dynamism (read variety) to a now static compositional structure, saturated and planned with the constantly inserted automatic pilot. Weaknesses that, on the other hand, had almost always been covered by convincing performances in the live site where, having to admit it, the lion's part had it (and they still do it) always made the songs of the first hour, thus confirming a certain record deficiency that had been laid down for some time.
“Diabolical” therefore seemed to have given a shoulder in this sense, bringing greater lymph and energy and this “Birth of Malice” therefore has on its shoulders the task of trying to give a certain continuity expressive to the German band. Trial successful? Unfortunately not.
Among the twelve songs (too many), some arrangements are interesting, witnessing, as mentioned, the liveliness offered by the good fury at the six ropes: “Cyber Warfare” for example, as “Servant the Beast” of the previous “Diabolical”, enhances us in its dynamism; And like her also “Dealer of Death”, “Scumbag Human Race” and “Greed” have some pleasant ideas inside, but it is the rest not to convince, thus bringing back to the surface the defects above.
The repetition of certain clichés, in fact, has far exceeded the attempt to get out of those tracks now cemented and, at this point, abused: for example, the succession of soft and unbroken refrain (“God of Gore”, “No Kings – No Masters”) and the introductory introductions with the acute of Schmier to start a predictable – and even a little artifact – rhythmic trend. If we add a couple of songs, “Evil Never Sleeps” and “Chains of Sorrow”, really out of place, with the first to take on the alleged cloths of a badly successful Ballad and the second without a real driving force, here are certainly not just sporadic variants more Heavy and melodic to move the shot of a almost obvious plot.
If therefore “The Art of Destruction” carries out a minimum of global interest, the new “Birth of Malice” cannot pass the exam in this sense, remarking the 'study' gaps that emerged in recent years.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
